An online conspiracy theory that the stage at last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was designed in the shape of a Nazi symbol has been disproved by the political affiliations of the company that built it.
You’ve often heard it said that conservatives have an unhealthy fixation on unfounded conspiracy theories. This claim has a level of truth to it. But the notion that people on the left are not also obsessed with promoting baseless conspiratorial stories is patently absurd. The recent uproar over the design of the stage used at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) over the weekend is a prime example of the far-left losing their collective minds over nothing.
RedState’s Nick Arama reported that after leftists deceptively claimed that the CPAC stage was shaped like an old Nazi symbol, “liberals flipped out, went after the CPAC organizers and Hyatt for hosting, and even tried to hunt down who was behind building the stage.”
March 1, 2021 at 2:49 a.m. PST
For four days at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Orlando, speakers at the Conservative Political Action Conference shared a number of contentious views, from echoing false claims about election fraud to undermining the seriousness of a pandemic that has killed more than 512,000 Americans.
But some critics also took aim at a seemingly more mundane detail: the shape of the conference stage.
Images of the CPAC stage went viral this weekend as many noted a resemblance to the Odal or Othala Rune, a symbol emblazoned on some Nazi uniforms. The Anti-Defamation League has classified the insignia as a hate symbol that has been adopted by modern day white supremacists.
Left-Wing Company with MSNBC, Biden Ties Designed CPAC Stage
3 Mar 2021
Leftists caused a stir last week after spreading a false conspiracy theory that CPAC’s main stage depicted a Nazi symbol, but Design Foundry, the left-wing company that designed it, said it had “no idea that the design resembled any symbol, nor was there any intention to create something that did.”
Design Foundry, which designed CPAC’s stage, has worked with left-wing organizations, such as MSNBC, Google, and the Biden Cancer Initiative, according to National Pulse. The outlet added that “of the $7,766.50 spent by Design Foundry workers on federal elections, just $140 – or 1.8 percent – went to Republican candidates.”
The company that designed the stage for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida told The Forward that they didn’t know that the stage design looked like a Nazi symbol.