It looks strange, but really only means that the embedding D2 x D2 -> D8 can't be chosen to be invariant under (D8-) parity. As a simpler example, A3 -> D4 can't be chosen to be invariant under triality: One of 8s, 8c, 8v will be treated differently.
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