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Iconoclasm actually means the opposite. Iconoclasts were a bunch of people in the middle ages who had something against religious images and so went around breaking them. Icons = images. Clasm = break.

So the traditional meaning of iconoclast in this context would be someone who seeks to break accepted imagery on a specific topic.



Thanks for pointing that out.




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