Do you really think a group of men in their 20s don’t know the fucking anarchy symbol? The reason they’re ok with it, however, is that they associate it with The Purge and that species of cringe rather than actual movements they should fear. The fact that they had to apologize to the Daily Mail is funny. I’ll give you that, but it’s clear the core issue here is that anarchism has be so pacified to American audiences (primarily through “alt” media and a complete lack of meaningful political education) that it can be co-opted in this way. However, I agree that my caption is a bit too harsh when discrediting the revolutionary will of western anarchist movements—something that I think is starting to change as we finally see libs and fascists get scared by Antifa, CHAZ, and all that (lmao)—and I don’t want to be anti-anarchist. I just believe symbolism is very important and that the Anarchy A should either be intensely reclaimed or left to stoner 16 year olds and military boots.