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It’s flashed by Trump supporters and mass killers: Has the OK sign really mutated into a white-power symbol?

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Posted By: Sardonic, 3/18/2019 6:22:18 PM

“Owning the libs” has never been so easy: Just raise your hand and flash the OK sign. “The smirk that almost inevitably accompanies the ‘OK’ sign, that simplest of hand signals, is the dead giveaway in the shroud of internet-age befuddlement,” the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote last September. “Does the sign, the thumb and forefinger joined together in a circle, the remaining three fingers splayed out behind, mean ‘all’s good?’ Or does it mean ‘white power’ instead?”

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And this is what passes for political commentary in Portlandia these days

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Reply 1 - Posted by: EliotRosewater49 3/18/2019 6:26:25 PM (No. 5131)
Have black masks antifa and BLM mutated into Marxist violence?

We can play that insipid game.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Calico Al 3/18/2019 6:40:46 PM (No. 5139)
What is Doug´s mommy putting in his cereal?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Digger 3/18/2019 6:42:35 PM (No. 5149)
In Brazil it is a vulgar finger gesture which means a-hole.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: JrSample 3/18/2019 7:38:54 PM (No. 5134)
The writer is citing the "Southern Poverty Law Center" as if they are a credible organization. He should really stay abreast of current events, before he writes an op-ed.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: earlybird 3/18/2019 7:41:10 PM (No. 5152)
What a bunch of rubbish!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: udanja99 3/18/2019 7:51:03 PM (No. 5153)
I generally use the “thumbs-up” gesture but will now make a point of using the OK gesture. Hope that millions of others do the same.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Sonofsoldier 3/18/2019 7:52:27 PM (No. 5138)
In the NBA the players like Steph Curry flash that sign to celebrate a made 3-point shot. Are they all white supremacists also?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: jalo1951 3/18/2019 7:57:50 PM (No. 5140)
Wow, just last week I had a student in the library. And when he asked me if the book he was wanting was on the shelf I flashed him the OK sign. OMG, I´m white and the student was black. What have I done? He will probably be triggered for the rest of his life and I will be on the news and I will get fired and he will sue me for mental anguish and I will end up committing suicide because of what I did and it just goes on and on. This is stupid. So much stupidity out there. Life is hard. It´s harder if you are stupid. So many stupid people walking around.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: wsdiego 3/18/2019 8:03:21 PM (No. 5144)
If we use the thumb and little finger wag that the Hawaiians do! Will that mean something different in future to suite some political notion?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: qwerty 3/18/2019 8:21:56 PM (No. 5148)
Oh darn ,,, "THEY" figured out THE SECRET SIGN, now we´re gonna have to use a different one.
I suggest that in the company of any liberal we use a single finger raised high.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 3/18/2019 8:27:07 PM (No. 5151)
No, it has not. It has been and will be used by a whole lot of people to just mean "OK", nothing more.

These morons are really.....morons.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: grampus 3/18/2019 8:33:08 PM (No. 5143)
A Brit friend (now gone) who piloted two gliders to mostly safe landings in WW II told me that he had been stationed for a while at a base in England where teen-age Brits were learning to fly fighters. He said that on their takeoff runs, these inexperienced kids were required to flash a two-thumbs-up signal. (He said that was to assure those on the ground that the young pilot didn´t have one thumb up.......)
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Reply 13 - Posted by: PESSIMIST 3/18/2019 8:38:21 PM (No. 5145)
In a desperate move to distinguish himself from the pack, Cory might just declare that he´s transitioning to a woman himself.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: cThree 3/18/2019 8:44:58 PM (No. 5147)
It´s as if a bunch of self-anointed twits are seriously parsing the "Bloody Mary" schoolyard superstition.

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Reply 15 - Posted by: ginadee 3/18/2019 9:25:49 PM (No. 5136)
The OK sign has, is, always will be A OK to me.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: ladydawgfan 3/18/2019 9:26:47 PM (No. 5133)
Basketball referees also use this sign, with BOTH hands, to signal a made 3-pointer. Racists, all!!
/sarc
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Reply 17 - Posted by: chumley 3/18/2019 10:02:43 PM (No. 5135)
In the middle east they told us it is a gay sign, and we probably should not make it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: HammerDax56 3/18/2019 10:04:29 PM (No. 5137)
Shut up. It’s freaking shorthand for OKAY!
People have lost the ability to think for themselves.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: suejeanne 3/18/2019 10:18:42 PM (No. 5142)
what if I stick out my tongue and say "boo!"

or what about this old-timer that was quite good . . . just say:

NERTS
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Blizzard 3/18/2019 11:15:00 PM (No. 5150)
Personally, I prefer the one-finger salute.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: AltaD 3/18/2019 11:44:33 PM (No. 5146)
I´m not sure which is more infuriating, this article or both of Chicago´s newspapers claiming Trump´s "dog-whistle" comments are to blame for a mass murder in NZ.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: panther361 3/19/2019 12:02:26 AM (No. 5141)
I had figured the left´s insane drive to upset the world would know few bounds. Now it seems they have gone into the start of insane overdrive. They intend to invade every crevice of American life and those similar. It hurts my head thinking about what they see in their selfish world. Like the Andromeda Strain, they are morphing and mutating at an alarming rate and I wonder which will transpire first. President Trump moves on to post presidency or the left´s collective head explodes into tiny fragments.
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