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| Topic | This is a racist hand symbol now haha!! |
| Notti 05/14/19 6:55:08 AM #227: | FaultyGourry posted... So why have so many fallen for the 'ok sign/circle game is a white supremacist symbol' troll when almost nobody bought the 'milk is a white supremacist symbol'? Anyone remember that one? I mean, they were both made up by the same people, from the same website and are equally ludicrous. What exactly is the difference? Because the chans didn't start a hoax with OK. They merely added gas to what the white nationalists were already using and the left was already accusing them of. The milk thing was mostly a fail because it was 100% made up, while the OK symbol was already being used as one of their symbols. https://medium.com/s/story/does-the-ok-sign-actually-signify-white-power-or-what-6cf3309df985 A lot of people mistakenly think that the alt-right use of the gesture originated with this 4chan hoax. But by the time this post was made in February 2017, the OK sign was well established as a far-right meme. The 4chan post is therefore evidence not of the creation of a hoax ex nihilo, but an instance of obfuscation, generating confusion over the origins of a preexisting phenomenon. Given the timing, its not unlikely that tricking people into mistakenly tracing the origins of the meme to the post was part of its intended purposewe are talking about 4chan, after all. And all you need to do is look at the archives of the chan posts on "the hoax". Filled to the brim with nazi stuff and call for killing anyone non-white or left wing. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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