Thread by @rothschildmd

Remember all those people who knew the stage at CPAC was *definitely* patterned after a Nazi rune? They were *definitely* wrong.

https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1366973736579137543

Some other infestations of Nazi horror designed by those fascists at Design Foundry: the Mandela 100 Years Gala and the Biden Cancer Summit.

Nobody's going to admit they were wrong because, hey, it's Twitter. But it's clear that Design Foundry designed the stage, the ACU approved it, and it wasn't meant to look like a Nazi rune. Now can we please go back to hating CPAC for its ideas, not its stage design?

Folks, I'm liberal Jew with the last name Rothschild who writes about conspiracies and extremism. If the CPAC stage were actually a Nazi rune, I'd be screaming about it.

Instead, I'm debunking it. Because it's not.

Last tweet before I mute this trash fire: Design Foundry is a well-known firm with top tier clients. The chances that they'd intentionally incinerate their business *during a pandemic* by modeling a stage design after a Nazi symbol are pretty much zero.

So I woke up to my mentions full of liberals calling me a Nazi and using anti-Jewish slurs, conspiracy theories that Design Foundry is a shell company or cutout, and people who genuinely think that all stage designers recognize all Nazi symbols. Good content.

I understand why this took off. We're still on edge after 1/6, and the Trump era in general. But so few people took a step back and asked "does it HAVE to be this? Can there be another explanation?" People just decided they knew what it was, and it couldn't be anything else.

Design Foundry put out a statement that not only was the stage not designed to look like an Odal rune, but the ACU, the venue, and the county all had to approve the design. Nobody saw an Odal rune. I'm betting most of the people who did had never even heard of it a week ago.

One last RuneGate tweet: people have asked me why we can't hate CPAC for both its abhorrent ideas AND its stage design. We can't because the abhorrent ideas are real, but the stage design is nothing. AND it hands CPAC a win by playing into the right's "cancel culture" obsession.