Australia’s leading conspiracy theorist and celebrity chef Pete Evans has been dumped by his publisher, retailers and even from a reality TV show after he posted a cartoon on social media with a Neo-Nazi symbol worn by the Christchurch terrorist.
On Sunday evening, Pete Evans posted a cartoon to his millions of followers on Facebook and Instagram. The cartoon features a caterpillar wearing a Make America Great Again hat speaking to a butterfly featuring the Black Sun symbol — also known as the sonnenrad or sunwheel.
It’s an ancient symbol appropriated by the Nazis, and now associated with Neo-Nazis according to the Anti-Defamation League, a anti-hate organisation. In recent times, it featured on the Christchurch terrorist’s rucksack and manifesto.
When a commenter on Evans’ Facebook page asked about it, he confirmed he knew the symbol.
“The symbol on the butterfly is a representation of the black sun lol,” one person wrote.
“I was waiting for someone to see that,” Evans’ account replied.
Later, Evans responded to another user on Instagram saying that he sees the “the caterpillar as colourful and at peace whereas the butterfly embodies darkness and perhaps shadow […] Or you can look at it as something completely different.”
And after that, Evan claimed he didn’t know what the symbol meant and apologised to “anyone who misinterpreted a previous post”.
Read the article by Cam Wilson in Gizmodo.