Librals think the "okay" hand gesture is white symbol

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Yep yep.



'OK' is now a hate symbol, the ADL says

The "OK" hand gesture is now a hate symbol, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League.

The ADL added that symbol along with several others on Thursday to its long-standing database of slogans and symbols used by extremists.

The finger-and-thumb OK sign is universally known for meaning everything is all right or approval of something. But the ADL says while not everyone means it to be hateful, the sign has been co-opted by the alt-right.

The OK hand gesture and its link to white nationalism began as a hoax cooked up by users of the website 4chan, who falsely linked it to white supremacy, according to the ADL.

It was meant to bait the media or people with liberal ideals to overreact, ADL experts say, and therefore look ridiculous for condemning such an innocuous sign. But in 2019, the sign was adopted by some white nationalists.

"At least some white supremacists seem to have abandoned the ironic or satiric intent behind the original trolling campaign and used the symbol as a sincere expression of white supremacy," the ADL posted in its report.

Their experts point to Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, who stands accused of massacring 51 people at two New Zealand mosques in March. Tarrant was pictured using the OK symbol during a courtroom appearance soon after his arrest. Tarrant has pleaded not guilty.

"We believe law enforcement and the public needs to be fully informed about the meaning of these images, which can serve as a first warning sign to the presence of haters in a community or school," Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO said in a statement.

The bowl cut image or emoji is used by white supremacists to symbolize Roof, who shot to death nine black people in 2015 as they prayed in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The "Happy Merchant" depicts an extreme stereotype of a Jewish man rubbing his hands together, which is meant to symbolize greed.

"Moon Man" is a play on a 1980's era McDonald's commercial that featured a man wearing a crescent moon costume. White supremacists use the character to make videos where he raps using racist rhetoric.

The slogan Diversity = White Genocide has also been added.
"These are the latest calling cards of hate," Mark Pitcavage, Senior Fellow in ADL's Center on Extremism said. "We pay special attention to those symbols that exhibit staying power as well as those that move from online usage into the real world."

 

Even if it is a gesture of wp does it really matter they're going to be who they are even if this isn't a sign.

 

I will need to be careful. I occasionally use that hand gesture to actually mean' OK'

 

Remember when cartoon frogs were just cartoon frogs? The good ole days.

 

I don't get it. what is the deal with cartoon frogs?

 

https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/pepe-the-frog

 

We could just repost most of the crap from you... sweets... comets... fchow... etc. The far left brigade. The ADL now confirms... the far left fake liberal soccer mom types are indeed unhinged.

 

ADL pushes the OK conspiracy theory. Wonderful. Yall know this was a troll move from 4chan right? Do you expect people to stop using it ? Not gonna happen. The ADL went full boomer... never go full boomer.

 

Not everyone is as willfully ignorant as not to realize that the alt-right and various white supremacist groups like to co-opt popular symbolism or imagery for their own nefarious purposes.

We all know Obama isn't a white supremacist, except you of course.

 

Since the 70's Nazis and clan members have discovered that dressing up in SS uniforms and goose stepping around revolts most of the public.

Thus the rise of crypto-fascism - from Wikipedia:

For years cryptofascists have used symbols like the sonnenrad as a stand in for the swastika. They have secret numbers like 18, in which A is the first number in the alphabet, and H is the 8th, thus 18 means AH, short for Adolph Hitler. 14/88 is another.

But the internet screwed all that up. It's easy to look all this stuff up and people know all these secret codes. So what do you do when your secret codes have been broken?

You co-opt a benign symbol to give yourself plausible deniability. That way, all your race warrior friends see you flashing the OK symbol, they know you are flashing the crypto-nazi salute. But when your boss sees you, you can say you are just saying OK and are a victim of the liberal media.

You muddy the water to hide your beliefs while still showing them off.

A while back BruceAndre posted something about the "Jewish question" and I called him out for using antisemetic ideology. He got upset at this, but his denial stuck with me. He didn't once claim to not be antisemetic. He was upset that I "was not allowed" to use his words to extrapolate his beliefs.

Hiding your beliefs while hinting at them and "red-pilling" the masses is the key to making ideology work in the modern world.