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Yes but actual racists have since actually started using the symbol, which has the added advantage of them being able to laugh at the mainstream media, and for
by sgillen 6y ago
Yes but actual racists have since actually started using the symbol, which has the added advantage of them being able to laugh at the mainstream media, and for adding plausible deniability. Though certainly there are non explicitly racists trolls using the symbol as a joke.
- gus_massa 6y agoWe should not let trolls or racist steal whatever symbol they want. What if troll or racist want to steal <whatever>? Where <whatever> can be the "thumb up/down", "chocolate eggs", "sandals with socks", "the red cross", "black shirts"? They look like stupid racist symbols, but if you had a travel machine and go to 2018, you will not convince anyone that some trolls or racist can steal the "ok symbol" and make it a racist symbol.
- potta_coffee 6y agoI agree, but the only reason the "ok" symbol is racist now is because of alarmist, reactionary people who are looking for something to be offended by. It's like when my kids fight each other, all it takes is for one of them to walk away but they never realize that.
- AgentME 6y agoThe Nazis stole the swastika. Should we consider it unfair to factor the use of that symbol in to our judgment about whether someone is/supporting/identifying as a Nazi? Symbols don't have fixed inherent meanings.
- gus_massa 6y agoThe problem is that is is interpreted as a Nazi symbol even when it is used with it historical meaning, even when it has not the Nazi symbol rotation/orientation/details. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika > In Japan, the swastika is also used as a map symbol and is designated by the Survey Act and related Japanese governmental rules to denote a Buddhist temple. This caused some controversy, for example https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-swastika/ https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-swastika/