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applegrove

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Thu Aug 17, 2017, 06:42 PM Aug 2017

Where the anti-45″ anti-Trump symbol in your feeds came from [View all]

ALESSANDRA MALDONADO at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/17/anti-45-symbol/

(see symbol at link)

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Symbols have always been integral to political movements. Social media has perhaps made them more so (take the the clenched fist most closely associated with the Resistance, for instance).

Currently, you might have noticed a relatively new symbol in your social-media feeds, borne up by the reaction to President Donald Trump’s handling of last weekend’s deadly Charlottesville, Virginia white-supremacist rally: the number “45” rendered as swastika behind the international symbol for “no.”

Mike Mitchell, the creator of the image often forwarded by those advocating for the impeachment of Trump, designed the image in February after determining he wanted to stain the number Trump holds so dear. “I knew I wanted to take on 45, a number he was clearly proud of as he put it on his dumb red USA hat,” Mitchell told Co.Design. “I definitely wanted to try and tarnish it.”

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