Photo via @NancyMace/Twitter, @bessbell/Twitter
June 3, 2021, 10:14 am
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina made the claim on Tuesday that someone vandalized her home with “Antifa symbols and profanity” via graffiti, including photos of spray-painted statements on her front steps and one wall of her house in a Twitter thread. However, people have noticed something distinctive about the way the letter “I” is dotted as well as inconsistencies in the messaging of the alleged vandalism, leading many to believe she did it to herself for publicity.
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First of all, the letter “A” in a circle is not an anti-fascist symbol, but the most common and recognizable anarchist symbol out there. “No gods, no masters” is also a phrase very commonly associated with anarchism, as is the idea that “all politicians are bastards.” What doesn’t match in these photos is what ended up on her wall, in a spot that looks conveniently easy to paint over: “Pass the PRO act.”
The PRO Act, short for Protecting the Right to Organize Act, is a pro-union piece of legislation designed to strengthen protections for workers who are attempting to organize for better wages and conditions in their place of employment. While anarchists do tend to be quite pro-union, what Mace likely doesn’t understand is that anarchists are, by definition, uninterested in reaching their goals via legislation or any other form of working within the system.
Anyone familiar with the basic philosophies of anarchism was immediately suspicious, also noting the lack of any real damage to Mace’s property, but certain sleuths took the additional step of finding hand-written notes by the congresswoman and comparing it to the graffiti.
While the style of the letter “a” in words like “bastards” is not super uncommon and it could be a coincidence that the alleged “antifa” vandals could use the same, Mace does something very unusual with the lower-case “i” in her handwriting, dotting it with an upside-down “u.” Some of these letters look to have the same style, particularly the last one in the word “politician.”
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If the lack of actual damage, inconsistent messaging, and handwriting matches aren’t enough, people have also wondered out loud why the home security system the clearly visible sign in her front yard warns about didn’t go off. Or why she doesn’t release or even mention the Ring video footage since her home is also equipped with that system if she wants to prove that the alleged vandalism didn’t come from inside the house.
To top it all off, people found a tweet from Mace dating less than six months ago in which she specifically notes “cans of spray paint” that she claims are there to “spruce up a lamp (or two),” which is totally a normal thing to do with spray paint, right?
If Nancy Mace sounds familiar, you might be remembering her from the time that she tried to make out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be a liar following her fellow congresswoman’s harrowing tale of hiding in her office during the January 6 assault on the Capitol. Mace tweeted soon after AOC’s Instagram video detailing her experience was posted saying that “no insurrectionists stormed our hallway,” including a link to a Fox News report.
Of course, AOC never claimed this, only said she heard banging on her office door and was confronted by a weirdly angry police officer who sent her right toward where the insurrectionists actually were.
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All in all, it seems clear that the only people who are going to believe Mace on this one are her own fans.
*First Published: June 3, 2021, 10:14 am
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