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They are indeed hate groups, it's a hate symbol, thanks for playing!

woodruffw 4y ago
The SDP was and is a center-left party. You can look their platform up today, and confirm that it is neither historically nor currently hateful. Their existence during the 1920s and 1930s was primarily defined in opposition to both further left and further right political movements. (There's also no one modern group using the Three Arrows. It's a general symbol of the left, like the wildcat or the "A." It's not even clear who they'd be a "hate group" against.)
- tablespoon 4y ago
  >> They are indeed hate groups, it's a hate symbol, thanks for playing! > The SDP was and is a center-left party. You can look their platform up today, and confirm that it is neither historically nor currently hateful. Words don't have any meaning anymore, so they mean whatever someone wants them to mean, so everything is true.
- midislack 4y ago
  Symbol was noted and observed by law enforcement during the 2020 terror.
  - masswerk 4y ago
    Just a reminder that terror is commonly known as a strategy to inject fear and tensions into a society with the goal of implementing a more restrictive/authoritarian framework or a revolutionary change of the principal organization of society. Protests for enforcing established rights don't fit this concept, even, if they should happen to derail at some point. Also, various symbols associated to the GOP were observed in the context of the January 6th incident. So are these all hate symbols? Certainly not and every such notion is utter nonsense. Attributing meaning by incidental association is not how it works.
braingenious 4y ago
What do they hate?
- masswerk 4y ago
  I guess, the Warsaw Pact – as Helmut Schmidt (German chancellor 1974 - 1982) had been a strong supporter of NATO's Pershing II rearmament? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt
  - braingenious 4y ago
    I genuinely have never heard of this hate symbol, to clarify: the people that use three arrows in a logo hate signatories to the warsaw pact?
    - masswerk 4y ago
      This was rather a historical joke, in order to provide some cognitive dissonance. (Assuming, the background of this "hate symbol" interpretation is something like Prager U. I really can't think of any other source for this than the developing culture wars and certain talking points by certain institutions, i.e., "we hate them, hence, they must have hated us first, thus, this has to be illegal".) Historically, the three-arrows symbol emerged in 1932 as a symbol of resistance against the NSDAP and was adopted as the official symbol of the German social-democratic party (SPD) that same year. It symbolises an equidistance from the NSDAP, the communist KPD, and monarchism. In this context, it was decried as a symbol of a "social fascist terror organisation" by the KPD, while conservative parties hedged fears of a people's front at that very same time. It was also adopted by social-democrats in other countries, e.g. by the SPÖ in Austria (also 1932). Wikipedia cites a slogan "neither Stalin's slaves nor Hitler's henchmen" in the context of this symbol. This is as much "hate" as you may get from this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Arrows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Arrows BTW, the social-democrat three-arrows symbol is three parallel arrows pointing downwards left inside a circle, while the Three Arrows Capital logo is three arrows fanning out and pointing to the upper right, intersected by a quadrant of a circle. Where the former is blocky and in uniform color (most often white on red), the latter is multicolored and drawn in fine lines. The two symbols have about nothing in common.

The SDP was and is a center-left party. You can look their platform up today, and confirm that it is neither historically nor currently hateful. Their existence during the 1920s and 1930s was primarily defined in opposition to both further left and further right political movements. (There's also no one modern group using the Three Arrows. It's a general symbol of the left, like the wildcat or the "A." It's not even clear who they'd be a "hate group" against.)

tablespoon 4y ago
>> They are indeed hate groups, it's a hate symbol, thanks for playing! > The SDP was and is a center-left party. You can look their platform up today, and confirm that it is neither historically nor currently hateful. Words don't have any meaning anymore, so they mean whatever someone wants them to mean, so everything is true.
midislack 4y ago
Symbol was noted and observed by law enforcement during the 2020 terror.
- masswerk 4y ago
  Just a reminder that terror is commonly known as a strategy to inject fear and tensions into a society with the goal of implementing a more restrictive/authoritarian framework or a revolutionary change of the principal organization of society. Protests for enforcing established rights don't fit this concept, even, if they should happen to derail at some point. Also, various symbols associated to the GOP were observed in the context of the January 6th incident. So are these all hate symbols? Certainly not and every such notion is utter nonsense. Attributing meaning by incidental association is not how it works.

braingenious 4y ago

What do they hate?

masswerk 4y ago
I guess, the Warsaw Pact – as Helmut Schmidt (German chancellor 1974 - 1982) had been a strong supporter of NATO's Pershing II rearmament? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt
- braingenious 4y ago
  I genuinely have never heard of this hate symbol, to clarify: the people that use three arrows in a logo hate signatories to the warsaw pact?
  - masswerk 4y ago
    This was rather a historical joke, in order to provide some cognitive dissonance. (Assuming, the background of this "hate symbol" interpretation is something like Prager U. I really can't think of any other source for this than the developing culture wars and certain talking points by certain institutions, i.e., "we hate them, hence, they must have hated us first, thus, this has to be illegal".) Historically, the three-arrows symbol emerged in 1932 as a symbol of resistance against the NSDAP and was adopted as the official symbol of the German social-democratic party (SPD) that same year. It symbolises an equidistance from the NSDAP, the communist KPD, and monarchism. In this context, it was decried as a symbol of a "social fascist terror organisation" by the KPD, while conservative parties hedged fears of a people's front at that very same time. It was also adopted by social-democrats in other countries, e.g. by the SPÖ in Austria (also 1932). Wikipedia cites a slogan "neither Stalin's slaves nor Hitler's henchmen" in the context of this symbol. This is as much "hate" as you may get from this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Arrows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Arrows BTW, the social-democrat three-arrows symbol is three parallel arrows pointing downwards left inside a circle, while the Three Arrows Capital logo is three arrows fanning out and pointing to the upper right, intersected by a quadrant of a circle. Where the former is blocky and in uniform color (most often white on red), the latter is multicolored and drawn in fine lines. The two symbols have about nothing in common.