For the intellectually challenged:

Let's say hypothetically tomorrow an actual white nationalist/neo-nazi/KKK rally were held somewhere deep south US, and the participants all decided to wear orange traffic cones on their heads for the rally. And this got widespread media attention worldwide.

Now let's say you're a Canadian anti-lockdown activist planning an anti-lockdown rally. Having seen the white supremacists wear orange traffic cones on their heads in the US, would it be a good idea or a bad idea to have the anti-lockdown protesters wear traffic cones on their heads at your rally?

It's obviously a bad idea because the public are going to see those traffic cones and assume you're white supremacists, because that's the only other place they saw protesters wearing orange traffic cones on their heads.

People's counter-argument here seems to be "Durr but traffic cones aren't inherently white supremacist symbols so why not wear them?!?!" That's incredibly stupid logic. Why would you wear orange traffic cones on your head in that scenario, unless you wanted to be associated with the white supremacists?

Now replace "orange traffic cones" with "tiki torches".