Editor,
Today I saw someone celebrating President Obama’s re-election by writing peace signs in the ‘O’s of the word Obamanos. Few things annoy me more than such a visual contradiction.
A peace activist designed the peace sign to agitate for nuclear disarmament. Our government, under President Obama’s guidance, will continue to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on nuclear weapons and delivery systems.
The peace sign loses all meaning when uncreative designers slap it on arbitrary products they want to sell. Now people are associating an anti-war symbol with an imperialist president. We call this “recuperation of the spectacle.”
Finally, I want to remind everyone that if you have peace sign earrings, you should only wear one at a time. If you have them on both ears, they cancel each other out. This is fashion 101, people. Peace.
Tim Dukes
UNM student
