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by rho4 1309 days ago
just for your information: the logo resembles islamic flags
5 comments
jcoder 1309 days ago
It’s pretty obviously an astronaut looking out at space. Buzz (Aldrin/Lightyear), get it? Would it be an issue if it did resemble an Islamic symbol?
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masklinn 1309 days ago
> It’s pretty obviously an astronaut looking out at space.

Props to you for seeing it, but I don’t think it’s obvious at all until pointed out.

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_8j50 1309 days ago
I disagree, they usually have green or black. I don't recollect them using stars either.
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masklinn 1309 days ago
> I disagree, they usually have green or black.

The logo is black, which seems to qualify as "green or black"?

Red and white are also very common (ottoman flag, turkey, tunisia).

> I don't recollect them using stars either.

"Star and crescent" has been common muslim iconography since the 14th century, and the ottoman empire (which introduced them).

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_8j50 1309 days ago
The logo shows purple to me and it isn't a crescent, cuts off ar the bottom.
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masklinn 1309 days ago
> The logo shows purple to me

It seems to be an extremely dark purple, on a white background it's genuinely indistinguishable from black.

> it isn't a crescent, cuts off at the bottom.

Which is close enough to a crescent for

> resembles islamic flags

to be a perfectly valid take.

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michaelmrose 1309 days ago
It's actually not a very valid take at all. It is VERY clearly not black I suggest your monitor is extremely poorly calibrated if it appears so. It not only isn't a crescent its not even a vaguely crescent shaped object. In Muslim iconography the crescent is a moon an object in the foreground not the background formed by putting any circular item offset inside any other.

It's reaching.

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_8j50 1309 days ago
It is a subjective opinion and I strongly and subjectively disagree.
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macintux 1309 days ago
I don’t think it matters in the slightest, but you’re absolutely correct, there is a resemblance. I don’t know how that became open to subjective debate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_and_crescent

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tmtvl 1309 days ago
Yeah, I think making the icon an octagon rather than a circle would help.
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snovv_crash 1309 days ago
No, it resembles a safety pin and stars, the well known Society for Communist Seamstresses flag.
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giann 1309 days ago
Safety pin? No its an astronaut and some stars.
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