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Tuesday, March 02, 2021
Hyatt Hotels says it takes concerns that CPAC stage resembled Nazi symbol “very seriously”
Salon.com: Hyatt Hotels on Sunday said it was treating concerns that the stage for Conservative Political Action Conference — held at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando — resembled a Nazi symbol "very seriously" and condemned symbols of hate as "abhorrent."
I would be very interested to get into the mind of the designer of this stage. From the limited research I have done on the subject, it seems like a lot of thought gets put into stage design. It is a little baffling that after probably rounds and rounds of revisions and changes, the stage still looked like a carbon copy of a hate symbol. Personally, I don’t feel super supported by CPAC to begin with so this stage is not the biggest surprise. Honestly it's interesting to be that the media frenzy has been largely focused on this stage shape that may or may not have been intentionally made to look like a Nazi symbol and less focused on the much less ambiguous crock pot of lies that much of the speakers were serving up (although I guess thats not really anything new at this point). Personally the stage is much less worrying to me than the party it supports.
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I would be very interested to get into the mind of the designer of this stage. From the limited research I have done on the subject, it seems like a lot of thought gets put into stage design. It is a little baffling that after probably rounds and rounds of revisions and changes, the stage still looked like a carbon copy of a hate symbol. Personally, I don’t feel super supported by CPAC to begin with so this stage is not the biggest surprise. Honestly it's interesting to be that the media frenzy has been largely focused on this stage shape that may or may not have been intentionally made to look like a Nazi symbol and less focused on the much less ambiguous crock pot of lies that much of the speakers were serving up (although I guess thats not really anything new at this point). Personally the stage is much less worrying to me than the party it supports.
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