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Yes, getting a Mexican-American fired for unknowingly making a hand gesture is just "kids these days". It's so simple! (https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/s

• godelski 6y ago
  From my understanding this specific gesture was turned white supremacist through 4chan's efforts to turn mundane and everyday things into hate symbols "because it'll be funny." [0]. It should be noted that this is more than just the okay symbol and they are trying to co-opt everything until everything is meaningless [1][2][3][4][5][I could go on, seriously]. They literally see this guy getting fired as a success because now people are using hate symbols and don't know it. > DON'T FEED THE TROLL [0] (ok) https://mashable.com/article/ok-hand-gesture-hate-symbol-anti-defamation-league-white-sumpremacy/ https://mashable.com/article/ok-hand-gesture-hate-symbol-ant... [1] (LGBT flag) https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/f1g3m1/anon_creates_a_hate_symbol/ https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/f1g3m1/anon_creates_... [2] (#) https://www.rt.com/news/460490-4chan-hashtag-symbol-nazism/ https://www.rt.com/news/460490-4chan-hashtag-symbol-nazism/ [3] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-okay-to-be-white https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-okay-to-be-white [4] (milk) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/white-supremacists-science-dna.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/white-supremacists-sci... [5] (larger list showing co-option of several symbols) https://www.wired.com/2017/05/alt-rights-newest-ploy-trolling-false-symbols/ https://www.wired.com/2017/05/alt-rights-newest-ploy-trollin...