March 3, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Just days after hosting the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at one of its Orlando, Florida locations, Hyatt Hotels has succumbed to left-wing pressure to criticize the event and its parent organization, the American Conservative Union (ACU), over far-left online activists’ claims that the stage design resembled the shape of a Nazi symbol.
As CPAC got underway over the weekend, social media erupted with posts claiming that the shape of the stage – a diamond main platform with parallel background stages for entry and exit, connected to the main stage by tails – resembles an odal rune, a letter from a pre-Roman alphabet incorporated into certain Nazi uniforms during World War II.
This is the CPAC stage design below. It is a rune which was used by the SS.
This is the stage from which @tedcruz screeched “freedom.”
(Image via @dailybeanspod) pic.twitter.com/OgpOuCYdV5
— Ben Jackson (@BJacksonWrites) February 27, 2021
The left-leaning Anti-Defamation League acknowledges that, due to the age of the runic alphabet, the shape “can also be found in non-extremist contexts” and therefore “care should be taken to evaluate the symbol in the context in which it appears.” Nevertheless, leftists and their media allies
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