Posted on 07/11/2021 5:31:38 PM PDT by algore
But a transgendered weirdo can flash his weaner at young girls in a spa bathroom
It started as a prank.
“Universally known” ?
It’s not totally universal. It means something offensive in other parts of the world but having nothing to do with racism.
What color is the person inside the costume?
It surprises me that I seem to be the only one on this thread who understands that this is all the result of a 4chan hoax.
4chan is conservative. Its members are wizards of the internet. Operation O-KKK was one of their hoax masterpieces, though it may have evolved in a way they did not intend.
This piece by the Anti-Defamation League provides a good explanation.
https://www.adl.org/blog/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-trolling-gesture
Perhaps I was mistaken when I said Reddit and 8chan instead of 4chan but I have made repeated posts about it being a prank.
I should have said in #46 that I have no idea if the ADL’s description of the use of the OK sign among actual white supremacists is accurate, or just reflects the ADL’s agenda. The left adopted and spread 4chan’s hoax, before and after they knew it was a hoax. I do not know whether or not it was subsequently adopted by actual white supremacists. My knowledge of actual white supremacists is nil.
News to me. I don’t have TV nor appears anymore so don’t know what is racist anymore
Her is another, this one does look unntural.
In the second photo, the actor is making that circle on the child’s shoulder on purpose.
That’s not the OK sign. Maybe he’s playing the “circle game”?
Or maybe he’s being a jerk.
Not reading what the ADL says, but here’s what I know: It started years ago as the circle game, a child’s game. Then some on 4chan played a prank, claiming it was a white supremacist symbol. But, then the 4chan joke caught on, and teens and college students were using it with each other.
Those Disney photos were taken in 2019, right? That year, I worked around high school-age kids, and that symbol became popular, but not everyone using it knew what they were doing. My teen thought the other teens were playing the circle game. Some other teens didn’t know what it was; they flashed it, just because everyone else was doing it. And my college student said other students were flashing the symbol as a “joke” white supremacist symbol to each other.
What “Gru” did was only evident in the second photo. But, he (?) was doing one of three things:
- Either he was playing the circle game as a joke,
- Or he was using a popular gesture he didn’t know had any meaning at all,
- Or he was being a creep with an innocent child.
#7. The ADL has gone completely batshit with its pro-Obama leader. Wasn’t always that way. The Left never gives up on seeking power and liberals never keep on being stupid and continue to fund their own enemies.
#15. I thought that was a three-eared shadow rabbit. What changed?
If the Left back then used today’s “woke, CRT” write/speak, the headline they would have written about the John Glenn flight and his hand signal, would read, “White Racist in Space. Signals world domination”.
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