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This is NOT Okay (Original Post)
Generic Other
Aug 2017
OP
is it necessary? he's not so much dog-whistling his allegiances as he is screaming them
beachjustice
Aug 2017
#5
BigmanPigman
(51,597 posts)1. My finger gesture beats their gesture hands down.
fierywoman
(7,684 posts)2. to Latinos it means a$$ hole.
caraher
(6,278 posts)3. Not this again
The ADL debunked this 4chan prank months ago
Looks like they've freshened up the hoax by adding the ACLU logo.
There is, however, a variant that seems a genuine white power symbol per SPLC. It's also clearly not the everyday "OK" gesture:
Has the simple thumb-and-forefinger OK hand gesture become a white supremacist hand sign? Well, no, it hasnt, but you are likely to hear just the opposite from social media, thanks to the latest hoax from members of notorious website 4chan.
The site 4chan is an anonymous discussion board with an outsized cultural impact on the Internet. It has been responsible for everything from the I can haz cheeseburger cat meme to the concept of rickrolling. There is little that 4channers like so much as a hoax and in recent months they have served up a number of fakeries with white supremacist themes to largely credulous on-line audiences.
The OK hand gesture hoax originated in February 2017 when an anonymous 4channer announced Operation O-KKK, telling other members that we must flood Twitter and other social media websites claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy. The user even provided a helpful graphic showing how the letters WP (for white power) could be traced within an OK gesture. The originator and others also suggested useful hashtags to help spread the hoax, such as #PowerHandPrivilege and #NotOkay. Leftists have dug so deep down into their lunacy, wrote the poster, We must force [them] to dig more, until the rest of society aint going anywhere near that s***.
Following the cues of the hoaxs originator, 4channers created fake e-mail and Twitter accounts and bombarded civil rights organizations, journalists, and others with messages furthering the OK hoax. Some of the hoaxers were possibly racists or white supremacists themselves, as parts of 4chan are something of a haven for them and the site itself has been a source of adherents of the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement.
The site 4chan is an anonymous discussion board with an outsized cultural impact on the Internet. It has been responsible for everything from the I can haz cheeseburger cat meme to the concept of rickrolling. There is little that 4channers like so much as a hoax and in recent months they have served up a number of fakeries with white supremacist themes to largely credulous on-line audiences.
The OK hand gesture hoax originated in February 2017 when an anonymous 4channer announced Operation O-KKK, telling other members that we must flood Twitter and other social media websites claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy. The user even provided a helpful graphic showing how the letters WP (for white power) could be traced within an OK gesture. The originator and others also suggested useful hashtags to help spread the hoax, such as #PowerHandPrivilege and #NotOkay. Leftists have dug so deep down into their lunacy, wrote the poster, We must force [them] to dig more, until the rest of society aint going anywhere near that s***.
Following the cues of the hoaxs originator, 4channers created fake e-mail and Twitter accounts and bombarded civil rights organizations, journalists, and others with messages furthering the OK hoax. Some of the hoaxers were possibly racists or white supremacists themselves, as parts of 4chan are something of a haven for them and the site itself has been a source of adherents of the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement.
Looks like they've freshened up the hoax by adding the ACLU logo.
There is, however, a variant that seems a genuine white power symbol per SPLC. It's also clearly not the everyday "OK" gesture:
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)4. Actually, the SPLC has a different interpretation...
...that it's a dog-whistle to the far-right "Three-Percent Movement."
Either way, the Cheeto-in-Chief sure uses it a lot. I wonder if he did that before meeting Steve Bannon?
beachjustice
(45 posts)5. is it necessary? he's not so much dog-whistling his allegiances as he is screaming them