i had no idea that this was a white power symbol? always meant "Okay" or that fuckin meme people do
lmao sick job on missing my point entirely. i know it's the "ok" sign. what you're failing to understand is that some groups of people find it offensive now. those people got offended and cried to the USCG, who sided with the public given the racially charged nature of the complaint
use ur brain lmao
If the OK sign is considered a Social Justice issue, than 90% of them are absolute trash and just plays into the stereotype of SJWs.
Shoutouts to the people who realize how ridiculous this is and find out how to make the whole sign language alphabet into a white power symbol.
yep. and those "SJWs" are now large enough of a group that they can get you fired when they collectively express their grievances. they think the OK sign is a white supremacist sign, so don't use it when representing a company in a public capacity unless you want to take that risk
he took that risk and lost for it
What I'm getting out of this is that I should not follow Social Justice topics because of a want for equality, but because I need an app-like newsfeed of official phrases and gestures which they have ceded over to theoretical nazis so I don't get fired the following day for giving someone a thumbs up.
If this scenario is truly a nazi gaslighting conspiracy, instead of people on the Internet seeing a soft place to poke and being amazed at the utter lack of limits to how far they are allowed to go, then they have already won. They have won, and people like you were their greatest aid.
So what's your point? That we're supposed to live in fear of the SJW boogieman coming around to randomly ruin our lives?
He took what risk? Using a hand gesture that people have been using for ages, long before the internet existed? A hand gesture that most people don't even know has gained any association with supremacists at all?
Get the fuck over yourself. You can sit here and jerk off your ego about how superior you are compared to everyone else because you've got the perfect sensibilities, but that doesn't make it true. Your sensibilities are worthless, and you're not a good person for touting how great they are. You're just want an excuse to abuse other people and you think this is the perfect, legitimized excuse for it. You don't care about some association with supremacists or anything, you just see a chance make other people feel bad, and you like it.
14/88 have a long history of being hate symbols though.
I honestly thought he was doing the "look at the hole" joke except that's usually done below the waist.
not sure how I aided anyone. the ok hand is interpreted as racist to some because of a wacky tobaccy 4chan meme (but also because of the election) and someone made that gesture. they paid the price as a victim
you should follow social justice topics because those that cause dudes like this to lose their livelihoods over arbitrarily instantiated folkways do so under the guise of social justice. those individuals are becoming politicians, executives, and managers. if you aren't familiar with what they consider to be egregiously offensive, you put yourself at risk of ending up like this guy if you "offend" someone
haha what the fuck are you talking about? do you really think you're that smart? yikes. not even remotely sure why you're sperging out about me abusing people? i don't recall abusing anyone over self-proclaimed sensibilities
you're only right about one thing: i don't care about association with white supremacists. that's because i know the OK symbol isn't a real white supremacist symbol. but i'm not stupidly naive enough to say i'd do something like that on public television representing my workplace knowing full well that gesture offends a lot of morons on twitter. the poor dude who got fired didn't know about that association and look where he ended up
Then where do we draw the line on what is/isn't one of their terms and dogwhistles? Do we let them tell us the ((( ))) "meme" is just for "coincidence detecting"? Do we ignore the fact they now use pepe exclusively on all their artwork and "kekistan" stuff? (No nazi comparisons here, I'm just totally giving the nazis free stuff)
We have to draw the line somewhere as to what is trolling and what is them using trolling as a shield.
Again, all that stuff about pepe and kekistan and now the OK sign have become associated with nazis because gullible people let them become associated with nazis. The only power nazis have is the power we're willingly giving to them through stupid shit like this. You want to know where we draw the line? The line is "if it started as a 4chan op to see how gullible people can be, it's not actually a nazi thing". It's that simple. Alternatively, "if someone's making a big stink because a meme, gesture, or term that fucking everyone uses is also being used by people they don't like, ignore them because they're being a fucking tool and continue using said meme/gesture/term as you see fit". If we had established that line ages ago, Pepe would by now have become that one stale unfunny meme someone posts on the LMAO Pics thread that gets a couple of "dumb" ratings, Kekistan probably wouldn't even be a thing to begin with, and this man would still have his job because people wouldn't be accusing him of being a white supremacist for using the goddamn OK sign. Ever read that old poem "for want of a nail"? This is the fucking nail, right here.
Yeah guys just lay back and let 4chan memes shape our future! C'mon get with the times! :v
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Suppose the nazis just went back in time 80 years and started using this one because of 4chan 🤔🤔🤔
14 and 88 are both separate nazi codes that are both major fucking red flags that someone is a white supremacist. They're linked to two completely separate concepts and only became associated together because it was easy to pass 1488 off as something unrelated. If you really want to act like 14 and 88 are completely innocent when they're alone, then you're lying either to yourself or anyone you're arguing with.
I mean there's a huge difference between some nobodies and a political party that creeped it's way into the government.
That's literally the whole point of his post. [b]We[/b] draw the line that all the hand gestures or memes being perpetuated as Nazi symbology [i]isn't[/i] and is in fact just normal everyday bullshit. The only reason it has any connection to Nazi-ism is the arbitrary link [i]you[/i] give it. I've never in my life until reading this article a couple days ago even remotely heard of the ok hand being some sort of white power symbol, like my rational normal human brain never made that connection because it literally doesn't mean shit but "lol ok"
Really don't understand what your point is unless you're trying to say that the Kekistan flag was not based on a combination of the Nazi war flag and the KKK logo.
The point is some nobodies making a flag that mimics the third reich is not the same some dude making an OK hand a nazi symbol because of some meme lords on the internet said so. There is no facist government making the OK hand their salute.
I use the OK gesture all the time and I'm not some white-supremacist neo-nazi.
Mostly because I think the OK symbol is pretty chill and as a transwoman I don't like talking to lots of people so it's easier to make a gesture everyone recognises than to deal with the anxiety of trying to converse with them.
That would be a good point if that was the post I was responding to, but it isn't. See, the specific part of the post I responded to was:
Which is not true about Kekistan. The Kekistan flag was directly based off both the Nazi war flag and the KKK emblem from the start, and if you're going to parade around with a flag design based off a Nazi flag, guess what, you're associating with Nazism. Whether you're doing it ironically or legitimately, you're still an asshole either way.
Can we start openly beheading the ADL right now?
Nope
So I've done some independent research and all I can say is wow. This runs deep.
Rather than JUST being a white power symbol I also think it's an illuminati/the hand from MCU symbol.
The criminal mentioned in OP should clearly have been fired but I BET YOU 100 COINS he won't be criminally prosecuted because the courts are being bank rolled by higher members like Obama, Hillary, the Pope and Buddha
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Another great loss for humanity
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