Saw someone point out yesterday that Elizabeth from Knoxville's piano scarf likely refers to the number of keys on a piano. Nazis, y'all.

I want to point out that I didn't notice this on my own. I'll go back through my favorites to see if I can find who saw it.

And I did not find it, but yeah. I would not discount this iconography on display from a self-proclaimed "revolutionary" invading the Capitol in a white supremacist attack. Just another thing to be on the lookout for, besides all their other icons.

This is a context thing. You don't need to worry about every person wearing a Hawaiian shirt, but a Hawaiian shirt at a protest with police presence? Proceed with caution. A piano scarf at a piano recital? Fine. A piano scarf worn at a Trump rally? Be wary.

There are icons that are pretty much always bad news in every context, but white supremacist groups love love love taking the silly and innocuous and imbuing it with sinister meaning. Consider the OK hand symbol or the Klan's hoods, which look ridiculous on purpose.

Fans of Foucault's Pendulum and The Crying of Lot 49 are having a real weird one lately.

When will the news start interviewing semioticians, I ask you?

A really key part of these symbols is that they provide plausible deniability. Oh gosh, I can't BELIEVE you'd take my cute lil piano scarf for a Nazi symbol. You must be really SICK. Maybe YOU are the Nazi?

I can't *prove* that Elizabeth of Knoxville chose to wear a piano scarf to signal to her fellow Nazis that she's down for some antisemitic white supremacist shenanigans, but I can point out that she's at the antisemitic white supremacist shenanigans riot.