Claim: Only two people in history have ever had their own symbols - Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler. V
Claim: Only two people in history have ever had their own symbols - Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler. Verdict: FALSE This Facebook forward cites a site called Start Impeachement Now, which warns about imminent financial collapse and national disaster before advising you to buy his survival kit. The claim that only two people have had a symbol in history is laughable and the idea that Obama must be a fascist because he has a circular symbol and so did the Nazis is specious. However, the question is: have only two people in history had their own symbols? The answer is no. Obama is not unique in creating a campaign symbol. He’s not even alone in creating a symbol modeled on the first letter of his name. There’s the stylized “R” Mitt Romney used in 2012: Much like the Obama symbol, it’s a stylized take on the first letter of his last name, and similarly draws on red, white and blue colors. Throughout history many people have used symbols to represent themselves. It is the whole concept behind medieval heraldry and family coat-of-arms. Here is the symbol of the British House of Windsor: And in a different kind of royalty, an American Prince also used a symbol to represent himself: Also many religious icons are represented with a symbol, such as the cross representing Jesus. Far from just two people, the use of a symbol to represent oneself is common and accepted, and in no way designates a link to the fascism of Adolf Hitler. -- source link
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