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The MEDIA turned it into a symbol of hate. Rather than researching, finding it was BS, and ignoring it they made a story of it so they could get eyeballs and r

The MEDIA turned it into a symbol of hate. Rather than researching, finding it was BS, and ignoring it they made a story of it so they could get eyeballs and revenue. And here we are.

RickJWagner 6y ago
And it stirs political waves. It's disgusting that this happens, it makes opportunities for 'sighting racists' and for another way of virtue signaling. It's just a way to divide people.
mansion7 6y ago
Quite so. 4chan is actually quite clever in that regard. They have hypotheses, in this case that the media is both stupid, and has political biases that they will promote any level of foolishness to affirm. They then develop simple plans to test these hypotheses. In this case it was as easy as making fake memes and spreading them to woke journalists. They then sit back and watch as they are proven correct. Now, making a hand symbol which has existed for generations is sufficient to get one cancelled and "deny listed". Another recent example; they believed that wokies had an anti-white bias. So they made a very simple phrase. "It's okay to be white". They didn't say it was great to be white, or that whites are better. They didn't alter "black power" into "white power" or "long live the race" into "Viva la Raza Blanca", etc. Just that it was okay to be white. And they were quickly proven correct - academics and media types quickly pronounced outright that it was not okay. The more tolerant among them qualified that while it might be okay to be white, it's certainly not okay to say it aloud. And many eyes were opened to what those in power (and getting one fired, harassed, beaten, deplatformed etc while being supported by almost all media, big tech, woke capital, and academia IS true power) think of them. We ought to look forward to further 4chan experimentation - the results can be quite enlightening.

The MEDIA turned it into a symbol of hate. Rather than researching, finding it was BS, and ignoring it they made a story of it so they could get eyeballs and revenue. And here we are.

RickJWagner 6y ago

And it stirs political waves. It's disgusting that this happens, it makes opportunities for 'sighting racists' and for another way of virtue signaling. It's just a way to divide people.

mansion7 6y ago

Quite so. 4chan is actually quite clever in that regard. They have hypotheses, in this case that the media is both stupid, and has political biases that they will promote any level of foolishness to affirm. They then develop simple plans to test these hypotheses. In this case it was as easy as making fake memes and spreading them to woke journalists. They then sit back and watch as they are proven correct. Now, making a hand symbol which has existed for generations is sufficient to get one cancelled and "deny listed". Another recent example; they believed that wokies had an anti-white bias. So they made a very simple phrase. "It's okay to be white". They didn't say it was great to be white, or that whites are better. They didn't alter "black power" into "white power" or "long live the race" into "Viva la Raza Blanca", etc. Just that it was okay to be white. And they were quickly proven correct - academics and media types quickly pronounced outright that it was not okay. The more tolerant among them qualified that while it might be okay to be white, it's certainly not okay to say it aloud. And many eyes were opened to what those in power (and getting one fired, harassed, beaten, deplatformed etc while being supported by almost all media, big tech, woke capital, and academia IS true power) think of them. We ought to look forward to further 4chan experimentation - the results can be quite enlightening.