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They removed her "peace" sign from U.S. print advertisements because of the Iraq War


Since the USA doesn't support peace whatsoever can't have a poster with someone showing the peace symbol!

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Sure. That’s why. 🙄

The studio just didn’t want to cause any knee-jerk controversy with anyone mistakingly thinking the artwork was a war protest since petty people love to bitch and cause issues where they don’t exist.

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It makes no sense, people can't make a peace symbol anymore? Winston Churchill did that sign in WW2 all the time.

It's not even a political statement. It just means "peace"... How is that political? It was never political in the 60s or 70s or even the 90s. Now , after 9/11, you can't even make a peace sign with your fingers without someone thinking you are somehow challenging U.S. foreign policy, or middle-east policy decisions. Pretty sad. People have gotten pretty weak-willed, all around.

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I agree. But like I said, people look for reasons to bitch to the point where they’ll create issues where they don’t exist.

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It can also mean "V for Victory" which is likely how Churchill was using it at the time.

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I think you're mistaken. Every ad I ever saw for it she had the peace sign up.

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I didn’t see any without it but I wasn’t exactly looking for it either.

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When I look at it on Plex, it's got the poster with her peace sign and entire left hand airbrushed out.

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They should have changed it to a Black Power Fist. 😂

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