The iron cross used to be a widely-used hate symbol that harkened back to the Nazi era, but lost its potency in the ’90s and early 2000s when surf, skate and motorcycle companies started using ...

The symbol, originally a combination of the common ... “And once I did it, a lot of things started changing in my life. People can say something about Prince, and it used to bother me.

“I think the symbol is going to start taking on more of that than it did before.” Put that way, it’s easy to imagine the Love Symbol joining the canon of iconic symbols---like the peace ...

It tracks symbols used by hate groups ... was a cultural currency on sites like Reddit and 4chan. And then things started to change. CALDWELL: People started getting really bent out of shape ...

The man who designed it more than 50 years ago agrees that the symbol has been misused. By Chang Che Gary Anderson was a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern California ...