'OK' Hand Sign Is Now Considered a Symbol of Hate, According to Anti-Defamation League

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  1. squidward

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    Pus rockets
     
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    Egoboy Well-Known Member Donor

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    I'm still Sweden and if I recognize the sign given in an improper context, I will have to contact the hand sign police and make a report..

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    “Even as extremists continue to use symbols that may be years or decades old, they regularly create new symbols, memes and slogans to express their hateful sentiments,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt in a statement. “We believe law enforcement and the public needs to be fully informed about the meaning of these images, which can serve as a first warning sign to the presence of haters in a community or school.”
    ENDSNIP
     
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    Scuba divers use that symbol to let their dive partners know they are ok
    Now they have to change it to appease lefties?
    Why? Why can't these turds focus on REAL ISSUES???
     
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    Ze brownzhirtz villz polize ze fingerz.
     
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    ADL is a ****ing joke. A group that fights defamation but does nothing but......
     
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    I accept ....


    ... but now that we are talking about the Greeks .... displaying the palm of your hand was always an insult in Greece while in the west the palm has always been a greeting.
    You're joking, right?
     
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    Yes, and the thumb up means you are returning to the surface
     
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    Egoboy Well-Known Member Donor

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    Well, Peace and Victory... I'm not aware of V meaning anything derogatory or insulting... in the US at least...
     
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    Your wish is my command:

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    Must've been his White Power half. How does a man like him live with himself?

    And being from Hawaii I bet he's got some tiki torches in his backyard, too...:eek:

    WHITE SUPREMACIST PUN!

    The jokers at 4chan must be having a good laugh right now. As for the ADL, it's credibility just took it square on the chin...
     
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    A+ for concision!
     
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    It sounds like you have no idea where you stand.
     
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    No S... I said that in my OP... I can see a case either way here. I'm not going to stop using the OK sign, but I also hope to recognize if it is used to represent something different that I do...
     
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    They look like idiots, yes, that doesn't make them a symbol of supremacists ffs
     
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    The ADL seems to disagree with you... I've never really seen that connection myself, but I can imagine the mindset that would get a bowl haircut could go any which way...
     
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    Damn dude, chill out. Don't let the ADL screw with your head like that. I think you're too impressionable for politics.
     
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    Why don't they just make being white a hate symbol and get it over with
     
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    My point being they're a pack of ****ing idiots who have been repeatedly discredited in recent years and this is now just sad.
     
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    Don't see how it impacts your life unless you've just been called out for using the OK sign in the context indicated.... the rest of us have moved on...
     
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    Was going more with how ****ing absolutely stupid do you have to be to call a ****ing bowl cut a sign of white supremacy, but hey you do you egoboy and completely disregard what I've said.
     
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    What's up next to be designated as "hate symbols":

    - Drinking milk
    - Putting the cereal in first before applying milk
    - Driving right-handed
    - Eating cheetos
    - ????
    - Be white
    - Be a male

    The ADL and the SPLC are both complete and utter ****ing jokes. Ought to be sued into oblivion for being propaganda outlets.

     
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    So you're saying you don't find the claim that bowl cuts are inherent symbols of white supremacy to be ****ing absurd?
     
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    Yes, I knew all that, and you're right, I should have capitalized it.

    Still they sound like cry-babies.
     
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    They are bad but google is worse.

    Do a google search on "black couple" or "asian couple". Now do a search on "white couple". With the first two searches, all of the images will be of attractive heterosexual black and asian couples. When you do a search for white couples, you will get gay white couples, mixed race couples or unattractive freak couples.

    This link does the analysis of the bias of bing, duckduckgo and google from 2017. It is hilarious because back then google would still show white couples half of the time. Now it appears that google goes out of its way to not show white couples when asked to do a search on them.
    https://theanomaloushost.org/2017/08/10/lets-play-the-google-bias-game-1/

    The powerful elites at google hate straight white couples so much that they can't even allow you to find them in a search. If that doesn't meet the definition of hate, nothing does.
     
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    Google isn't a dating site.. there are better sites if you are looking for an attractive white couple...
     

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