This flag features the battle cry for the right-wing conspiracy theory that falsely posits that there was widespread fraud during the 2020 US presidential election. Used by South Carolinian naval fleets during the American Revolution and the Civil War, it features a rattlesnake against a field of 13 stripes. Reuters/Shannon Stapleton Battle banners South Carolina Navy ensign (1778) Now, the flag tends to symbolize opposition to restrictions and government oppression. The yellow flag, with a coiled rattlesnake and the words “Don’t Tread on Me,” has origins before the American Revolution, but has recently been used by the tea party movement, militia groups, and even in sports branding. The group’s rattlesnake flag bear the words “ “ Liberty or Death” and “ Don’t Tread on Me“ Gadsen flag (1777) This flag was used by militias around the town of Culpeper, Virginia, during the American revolution, when “minutemen” (troops ready for duty in “a minute’s warning”) got their name. But the phrase was originally a battlecry for Texan independence. Come and Take It flag (1835)Ī symbol of defiance created by a band of Texans who resisted Mexican forces in 1835, the flag features a slogan that has been co-opted by gun rights activists, abortion rights advocates, marijuana enthusiasts, and even McDonald’s. This flag was adapted from a decal featuring a bastardized version of the character Calvin, from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Watterson.
REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton A Betsy Ross flag Calvin peeing on Biden We took a closer look at the array of flags seen in this AFP photograph by Roberto Schmidt, which we obtained via Getty Images: It was total design,” Ilić says.“We have to be vigilant about these symbols because they’re like tea leaves. “In my opinion, branding was truly invented by Nazi Germany. White supremacists cling to fascist iconography because Hitler’s army demonstrated how potent flags can be when seen en masse, he explains. “This is how things started in Yugoslavia,” notes Ilić, who was born in the former socialist republic. As curator of the Tolerance Project and a scholar on white supremacist iconography, he says watching the mayhem at the Capitol felt a bit like déjà vu. Surveying the footage, artist-activist Mirko Ilić recognized several neo-Nazi symbols in the crowd. They communicate ideas quickly especially when hoisted to the heavens.” This contributes to the effect of a bigger, more unified rally behind a cause. “More than a cardboard sign, flags are dynamic. “They’re powerful because they’re visible symbols of our identity,” Scofield says. Laura Scofield, a graphic designer and member of the North American Vexillological Association, contends that flags are “the most powerful artifact ever designed.” Graphic marks, she explains, instantly gain emotional weight when emblazoned on a piece of cloth. “Its purpose is specifically to stand out and say ‘we are against the United States we are against the union.’” Andrew’s cross with 11 stars was designed to identify Confederate soldiers through the mist, fog, and gunpowder in the battlefields, Edelsohn says. Widely appropriated by white supremacists as a hate symbol, the “Southern Cross” never has been paraded publicly inside the Capitol before, historians point out. “It’s an outright affront to the government in its entirety,” says Antaeus Edelsohn, a University of Richmond law student and vexillology enthusiast. Of the various flags paraded around the seat of the US legislative branch, the most incendiary was a battle pennant from the Confederate army.
Reuters/Mike Theiler A Trump supporter parades a Confederate flag at the US Capitol.
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