"OK" hand sign added to list of
hate symbols for white supremacy
CBS News,
by
Christopher Brito
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
9/26/2019 5:18:21 PM
The "OK" hand gesture has been added to an expanding list of hate symbols used by white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League announced dozens of new additions to its database on Thursday. The hand symbol began as a hoax by users of the website 4chan before turning into a popular trolling tactic, according to the Anti-Defamation League. By this year, it had evolved into a gesture embraced "in some circles as a sincere expression of white supremacy," the civil rights group said. The suspect in the New Zealand massacre last March flashed the symbol during his court appearance in March after
Reply 1 - Posted by:
columba 9/26/2019 5:27:56 PM (No. 190399)
I have a plethora of pictures dating back to the 1950s that have the OK sign.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lgplgp 9/26/2019 5:28:21 PM (No. 190400)
so is the one finger salute also considered a "hate" symbol by the ADL? I know it's shared by a wide variety of "hate" groups...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
EQKimball 9/26/2019 5:29:03 PM (No. 190402)
Since this ridiculous issue surfaced I have seen photos of Obama on multiple occasions flashing the OK sign. To control language is to control society. I refuse to fall in line every 10 minutes behind would-be dictators of political correctness.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
snakeoil 9/26/2019 5:29:47 PM (No. 190404)
This is so confusing. If you hold up two fingers is it the Spock signaling Live Long and Prosper, the V for victory, or a Roman centurion ordering 5 beers. Am not totally sure what the single middle finger means but I get it all the time while driving. Never used to bother me until little old ladies started using it. Then there is the secret handshake used by cults. And the Captain Midnight Secret Decoder Ring. The world keeps getting more confusing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mekkkk 9/26/2019 5:32:02 PM (No. 190406)
This is beyond ridicolous...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Calvinesq 9/26/2019 5:54:28 PM (No. 190427)
I will not comply. I will not submit. OK? If not, I will not care.
I still have not gotten over not being able to use the word "gay" to mean happy and carefree. The OK symbol is practically universal, so I will continue to use it. OK?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
AltaD 9/26/2019 6:00:09 PM (No. 190437)
If you click on the link to ADL's site you'll see that they've also declared images of Dylan Roof's "Bowlcut" hair style as a symbol of hate. They make it hard to take their work seriously.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bad-hair 9/26/2019 6:01:26 PM (No. 190438)
Apparently the F Q symbol is still valid ?
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The ADL has become a parody of itself.
If the "OK" sign is coded white supremacy, then Obama is a white supremacists, given he used it all the time. As did both Clintons.
And the bowl haircut? I guess the Jewish three stooges are all white supremacists (except Curly).
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Vincent Vega 9/26/2019 6:09:24 PM (No. 190444)
Rodney Dangerfield is spinning in his grave.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 9/26/2019 6:10:18 PM (No. 190446)
Talk to the sheeple. They’ll fall in lockstep.
For me and my house........... WILL NOT COMPLY
OK
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/26/2019 6:21:24 PM (No. 190451)
I’ll have to remember to use it as often as possible.
Went to a Hall and Oates concert last week and Daryl Hall used that sign a few times. Guess he’s not woke.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 9/26/2019 6:30:23 PM (No. 190455)
All the hate groups in the country, just for kicks, at their rallies, demonstrations and riots should all fly the rainbow flag.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
David Key 9/26/2019 6:38:02 PM (No. 190461)
I am rarely at a loss for words, but the level of stupidity that people who should certainly know better apparently don't. Why, I would like to know, don't we run these people out of town on a rail, perhaps literally with a little tar and feathers. Why do we continue to allow these people to pour out garbage and quietly acquiesce to being told what to think what words we can use, how we must think about things and who and what we are if we don't kowtow to them and their ideology.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
pinger 9/26/2019 7:19:40 PM (No. 190483)
I can recall from years ago one of the Three Stooges used to flap an open palm under his chin and go woo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo. I understand that that too has been added to the list of white supremacy signs.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JL80863 9/26/2019 7:36:02 PM (No. 190496)
I'm told someone is publishing a newsletter which comes out every 12 hours so we can all stay up to date with this nonsense.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 9/26/2019 7:38:28 PM (No. 190498)
For all the old Yankee fans, remember the Ballantine Beer jingle...”Make that three ring counter sign, and ask the man for Ballantine!”
Ballantine Beer!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
lakerman1 9/26/2019 7:45:40 PM (No. 190502)
I believe the hajib is a hate sign.
I believe a man wearing a turban is displaying a hate sign.
I believe the arm twitching favored by Cherokee Lizzie is a hate sign.
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OK heres one.....
See...My big middle finger is fully visible to you....do you see it...do you get the message
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
janjan 9/26/2019 8:07:48 PM (No. 190520)
You really have to ignore these loons to keep your sanity. Go on with your lives.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
hershey 9/26/2019 8:17:25 PM (No. 190524)
Jeez, now we are all going to have to start wearing mittens....
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Highlander 9/26/2019 8:21:27 PM (No. 190526)
Okay.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/26/2019 8:25:30 PM (No. 190530)
I am not having the left define my dictionary, or my hand signals. Get lost quick!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/26/2019 8:40:28 PM (No. 190536)
Fauxcahontas uses that hand chopping motion every time she scolds us. Is it cultural appropriation of a tomahawk chop or a hateful karate chop? I'm sure it's racist, though.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 9/26/2019 10:14:00 PM (No. 190581)
What? Is it like a gang signal or something, we flash to transmit our superiority on our 'turf' and then gun down anyone who trespasses or 'disrespects' our sign? Like that?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/26/2019 11:52:26 PM (No. 190652)
I think wearing your reading glasses down on the end of your nose while lecturing people is a white supremacist, racial thing!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 9/27/2019 12:37:40 AM (No. 190665)
What they call a racist "ok" sign is also the letter "F" in American Sign Language. Are they planning on calling deaf people racists when they are just trying to speak??
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 9/27/2019 7:22:48 AM (No. 190808)
OK!
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This is getting nutzo. I used to work with a guy who said 'OK' every 10 minutes. Today he would be imprisoned.