Posted on 03/01/2021 5:16:58 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - Hyatt Hotels Corp called symbols of hate “abhorrent” on Sunday after the design of a stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference at one of its hotels drew comparisons to a Norse rune used by Nazis during World War Two.
A photo of the CPAC stage went viral on social media on Saturday, with thousands of Twitter users sharing posts comparing its distinctive design to an othala rune, one of many ancient European symbols that Nazis adopted to “reconstruct a mythic ‘Aryan’ past,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The ceiling of the conference room featured a lighting display in the same shape as the stage, according to Reuters photographs.
Hyatt said all aspects of conference logistics, including the stage design, were managed by the American Conservative Union, which organized the conference.
The comparisons were “outrageous and slanderous,” Matt Schlapp, American Conservative Union chair, said in a Twitter post on Saturday. He added the organization had a “long standing commitment to the Jewish community” and that the conference featured several Jewish speakers.
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Hate is in the eye of the beholder.
Oh Please!
These people are absolutely deranged.
that’s quite a stretch of the imagination, even for the perpetually offended.
A liberal male isn’t turned on by a hot liberal female, he is turned on by squiggles and inanimate objects
Looks like just an ordinary triangle to me.
While the ACU may have had responsibility for all logistical matters, such as stage design, it is almost a certainty that they outsourced/contracted for that function with some company that does it as a regular business/service. The contract would have included setup/teardown of the actual stage, possibly including the lighting, for a set fee. The oversight from ACU would have been design approval. The person(s) approving the work by the contractor was likely more concerned with colors, lighting on featured speakers/panels, and flow on/off stage. Norse runes and the use of them by the Nazis likely aren’t even in that person’s normally-accessed knowledge set.
What is that
Hot liberal females are few and far between.
Who at Hyatt said this or was this an official announcement by the company? If the latter they should be sued for slander. Who in their right mind is busy looking for obscure Nazi symbols in a stage arrangement?
CPAC uses a modified star, part of the USA flag, and we find psychotic Karens combing archived
photos to derive an 'odal?'
The Nazis also used the alphabet, so I can assume that anyone writing with this 'Nazi' script are
Aryan White Supremacists.
Shove it, Reuters..
I honestly can’t tell if this is a troll put out by some crank on the internet for the lulz, or if the libs honestly believe this. I’m not entirely sure the libs would know the difference either.
Yup,and now the "Anti Defamation" League classifies it as a symbol of "white supremacy". Of course if you think back to the Little Rascals you'll recall that one of the black characters (can't recall which one) used it as his "signature" gesture.
They only do this to Republicans. democrats get to actually DO hateful things to people, and they get away with it. Republicans are accused of things they don’t do.
A Nazi* is someone who disagrees with a Leftist.
*Same as “racist” or their new favorite “white supremacist.”
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