A movement has started in the U.S. of people wearing a safety pin in order to demonstrate they do not believe in the campaign rhetoric of Donald Trump, which has been called racist and xenophobic.

The safety pin is meant to show that you’re the good, approachable kind of privileged. It expresses your concern for people of color, gays, and immigrants.

Ordinary safety pins may be safe when closed, but they sometimes fly open and penetrate the flesh of infants whose clothing they fasten. Inventors J. H. Williams of Spokane and Victor Grant Jones ...