A birdwatchers’ app inspires a field-guide to protesters’ symbols
Struggling to sort your odal runes from your blood-drop crosses? There’s an app for that
AMERICA’S CITIES teem with protesters and counter-protesters. But who are they? Among the crowds that have turned out for anti-lockdown “reopen” rallies and marches against police racism, various obscure insignia have been spotted. Members of the far-right, in particular, like to adopt symbols whose meaning is clear only to those in the know. Others may struggle to distinguish their odal runes from their blood-drop crosses. Now there’s an app for that.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Supremacist safari”
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