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4chan /pol/ does this stuff all the time. The OK as white power sign, the Free Bleeding movement as just a few off the top of my head. But then there are antifa
by dfgjnirf 5y ago
4chan /pol/ does this stuff all the time. The OK as white power sign, the Free Bleeding movement as just a few off the top of my head. But then there are antifastonetoss which I'm pretty sure are actually fans of stonetoss using a loophole to avoid getting banned. These people cannot operate in the open and have found other ways to operate.
I can't tell if it fits the Ruby CoC case. I'm just keeping an open mind to the possibility.
- taneq 5y agoOh totally, I didn't mean to imply there weren't actors out there doing shady bad-faith false-flag things. There totally are. It's just that sometimes (often?) what they post is indistinguishable from the real thing.
- raxxorrax 5y agoBest case to make a point on the internet is to argue the opposite and doing that very badly.
- rat87 5y agobut white supremacists including those on 4chan /pol/ have used OK as an actual racist sign. That may not be the dominant meaning of the symbol but it is one that exists.
- mpweiher 5y agoAnd we let white supremacists hijack our language?
- rat87 5y agoNazis basically took over the Swastika, a symbol with thousands of years of use, in at least half of the world. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591 I'm not saying we should or that random neo-nazis have that same power to take over it but we should acknowledge that some uses of the symbol are racist