SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]

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  • I’ve gotten to talking to at least a few people about leftist politics, of varying sorts because of it.

    Honestly, most people who recognize it aren’t immediately seeing it and thinking “THE THIRD ARROW MEANS ANTI-COMMUNISM! AAAAHHH!”

    Hell, more obscure than that, do even most leftists know that one of the arrows stands for anti-monarchism?

    No. They see it, divorced from its original usage, as a general anti-fascist symbol. In that sense, I use it because it’s a way to dogwhistle my politics rather than using a antifa flag logo (which chuds know about now) or a hammer and sickle (which interestingly, was the other patch in the two-pack I bought off etsy, with the three arrows patch)

    It’s like the save icon in your word processor. The picture is of a floppy disc, something we don’t use anymore. But the image has grown to have a more general, related meaning, beyond just being a picture dead media format. Time has sanded off the specificities of the symbol’s meaning, and simplified it to a more abstract essence.