This is something I just need to get off of my chest. I keep seeing everybody yapping about how we shouldn't be using the three arrows symbol because it was created as anti-communist. Listen, I understand the idea behind your critique, I really do, but just think about this for a second:

This symbol is relatively old and has been out of popular use for a while. Hardly any Americans know what it means unless they're tapped into historical politics. The only people who you risk offending with it are yourselves, and clearly that's what's happening. But if we can just get over that for a moment and think about the symbol itself, what is it. It's powerful, it's legible, it's useful, and it's versatile, which are all things that we need to be as well. 

This symbol was invented to put us down, that's true, but what else was invented to put people down? Slurs, for instance, were invented to be derogatory and hurt other people, and since then, a number of slurs have become mainstay in the English lexicon. They've been reclaimed, and this isn't something that is just applied to words. The fasces is a symbol stemming from Antiquity, and Mussolini adopted it. He even named his ideology, fascism, after it. However, the symbol didn't fade away into obscurity after he fell, it returned to its place as a standard symbol throughout the western world. 

My point is this: we don't need to be up in arms over our comrades using this symbol because

1. Nobody but us will care

2. It's incredibly useful and a strong banner for progress

3. We can reclaim the symbol and give it a new life separate from its past

Agree or disagree, I don't really care, I just needed to get this off my chest. Thank you for hearing me out, at least <3.

The Three Arrows Symbol is NOT an Issue