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Symbols only have the meaning that they are given through use. A symbol that originally has one meaning can take on another meaning if it is used to convey that
by iron0013 8y ago
Symbols only have the meaning that they are given through use. A symbol that originally has one meaning can take on another meaning if it is used to convey that second meaning. Just look at what happened to the word "Isis" over the last few years--it conveys something pretty different today than it used to, doesn't it?
Nowadays, many white supremacists use the "ok" hand symbol to communicate that they are white supremacists. In this way, they have added a meaning to an existing symbol.
I feel like this is obvious, and that one needs to really be leveraging their disingenuousness to pretend to not understand it.
- ahtokenmet 8y agoThe obscure mountain people of Maguti use it to mean "prepare me immediately for ritual suicide." Clearly everyone who uses the AOK symbol should be cognizant that meanings change, lest they be prematurely terminated. -- White supremacists are so isolated from Republican society that only someone who grew up with no exposure to Republicans could believe this. We're actually quite normal.
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- iron0013 8y agoWhite supremacists aren’t normal