An ๐Ÿ‘Œ explanation of the ๐Ÿ‘Œ hand sign gives us some ๐Ÿ‘Œ drama

6  2018-11-16 by Gtyyler

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encounter 4chan prank with the goal of getting libs to react by explaining the prank

proceed to explain the prank and look like a bunch of gibbering autists, thinking that doing so is an epic win

smugly declare that the pranksters are the ones who don't get the joke

evri tiem

I mean the retards literally thinking the OK sign is racist... so did they just give the neo-nazis the power to turn literally any hand sign into a nazi symbol? If they start posing with the peace sign, or a thumbs up, are those now no longer allowed?

Apparently 4chan actually tried to turn the peace sign into a gesture for โ€œ2 genders onlyโ€.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/josephbernstein/the-trump-internet-keeps-making-fake-hate-symbols-and

also a black power fist was "punch trans people"

did they just give the neo-nazis the power to turn literally any hand sign into a nazi symbol?

That's the thing, left-oriented people have an almost fetish-like predisposition toward giving up ground. They will happily accommodate. I think there's a popular phrase in recent times to describe it ๐Ÿค”

the actual next phase of this was going to be sign language but it wasnt needed

so did they just give the neo-nazis the power to turn literally any hand sign into a nazi symbol? If they start posing with the peace sign, or a thumbs up, are those now no longer allowed?

Historically and logically, that's exactly how it works, though.

If a bunch of racists start jokingly giving each other the ok sign as a way of self-identifying as racist within their in-group, it does, in fact, become a racist gesture and will eventually be deemed socially unacceptable.

Before Nazis existed, American schoolkids were taught to use the Roman/Bellamy salute during the pledge of allegiance. Nazis and Italian fascists started to use it to identify themselves, so Congress passed a law telling the kids to start putting their hand over their heart instead and now the Roman/Bellamy salute is just called the Nazi salute and people using it are universally recognized as Nazis. It didn't have anything to do with fascism until the fascists started using it, but became the ultimate symbol of fascism by virtue of its use.

The response to these retarded alt-right kiddies using the ok sign as a self-identifier shouldn't be "normies are stupid for thinking the ok sign is racist"; it should be "edgelords are stupid for turning the ok sign into something racist."

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If a bunch of racists start jokingly giving each other the ok sign as a way of self-identifying as racist within their in-group

Nobody actually does this though which is where your whole smug bullshit falls apart.

The over 9000 photos of fat, neckbearded whites online doing it disagree with you. Most recently, of course, being that Comcast proud pussy.

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The "troll" excuse never made sense. The "trolls" who came up with the hand sign did so from 4chan /pol/, a board notoriously full of racists. So racists created and propagated this "troll." The only people doing it would be racists.

How exactly would you be trolling people by using this sign? "Damn dude, I made that person think another white boy was racist. Fucking gottem'. How could they possibly believe that a mayo is a white supremacist? Get trolled dumbass."

I see that's it's terminal.

Itโ€™s just funny seeing people freak out over innocuous hand signs. The point isnโ€™t to trick people into thinking youโ€™re a racist or whatever the hell youโ€™re saying. Imagine the thumbs up becoming a new white supremacist hate symbol. These memes would be completely ineffective if libs didnโ€™t keep taking the bait.

Who is freaking out? Why would they freak out? Who is surprised that a white person is racist?

Ah. You're retarded.

Youโ€™re freaking out. You came into a thread making fun of you and proceeded to do exactly what weโ€™re mocking you for. Sane, calm people do not do that.

How exactly would you be trolling people by using this sign?

They're baiting the left into looking like conspiritards to the 99.9% of people who just see a guy doing an OK sign.

How does one look like a conspiratard by saying people who pose in group photos doing this hand signal are racists? Doing this sign in pictures as not at all popular before being propagated by racists and it still isn't popular now. So the people doing it now are...surprise, racists. Who learned it from, surprise...racists.

Are we just pretending that losers on the internet who are dedicated to "triggering the libs" have politics dedicated to ending white supremacy and therefore are totally not racists?

You're thinking too much.

Stick to what you're good at.

asks how this makes someone a conspiritard

proceeds to go off on a mini conspiritard rant about how the ok hand sign is now totally for sure 100% racist

you fucking idiot

Not much of a conspiracy to say these people are racist, but maybe that qualifies as a conspiracy to the small brained.

if the joke is so stupid and obvious why did your smooth-brained ass still fall for it

What did I fall for? Correctly identifying racists? How is this a trick?

Correctly

"Anyone who uses the OK hand sign is a racist because 4chan said so! And they're all racists, so they totally know!"

"What do you mean I'm falling for a trick? Nuh uh!"

lol u silly

I didn't say anyone using the OK hand sign. There are contexts where it's obviously done by racists and there are contexts where it isn't. Pretty easy to identify reactionary retards doing the OK sign for the camera. Maybe burn your strawman instead of the cross.

lol how can you not see how easily you are being played

So you can read minds through photographs? Curious.

But the racists and neonazis also believed 4chan so now they use the ok hand sign to signal their affiliations. So there are three types of people using ok: le epic trolls, racists, and someone casually saying okay.

If you see a picture of 10 white dudes flashing the okay sign you know these are the racists. A) 4chan trolls don't have friends to take a picture with B) no one using an innocuous sign would stand there with 9 other people making the same sign and take a picture of it for no reason.

Doing this sign in pictures as not at all popular before being propagated by racists

lol wut

How does one look like a conspiratard

Well

So the people Doing this sign in pictures are...surprise, racists

You figured it out!

Holy shit you're retarded. Imagine being so much of an NPC that you fall for /pol/ meme hoaxes. Seriously, commit sudoku.

/pol/ as in politically incorrect? the nazi containment board?

/pol/ as in the AWF. Autistic Warfare Force. But yeah there's some Nazis around there too.

Damn those /pol/ nazis who hunted down an ISIS camp. Such Nazi behaviour.

Wow really needed that explanation. Otherwise I might have made the sign and it would have acted as a vector for Nazi meme magic and magically transform me into a Nazi.

Letโ€™s be real whenโ€™s the last time any non-Italian used the ok sign unironically.

This!

If you use the OK symbol in the way racists use it (flashing it while smirking, posing with it in photographs

Posing for photographs with a ๐Ÿ‘Œ is now racist. 2018 has been a wild ride, I wonder if 2019 will take things even further?

I'm actually really disappointed so far with this shit. I want rightoids and natzeees to start using ๐Ÿ‘and other normal innocuous shit and I really thought that's where they were going with it after the okay sign.

Don't worry, there's still at least six more years to get some good drama going!

Posing for photographs with a ๐Ÿ‘Œ is only racist if you're part of a group of young white men who are all flashing it to take a picture.

Having a handkerchief in your back pocket isn't gay. But having it visible back there while you walk around a bar filled with men is super fucking gay.

Again, I want to emphasize that YOU are the mark who has been hilariously pranked by this whole situation. You are the butt of the joke.

The ironee.

Loling at the pootards thinking people knowing what theyre doing means they won

Hell, even if you just use the "OK" symbol as part of a response to a question, it probably won't be called racist.

Except you guys totally did this with that chick in the Kavanaugh hearings lmao.

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The thing is...if a bunch of racists start giving each other the ok sign, it does, in fact, become a racist gesture.

Nazis and Italian fascists didn't invent the Roman salute, but they all started to use it, so now it's just called the Nazi salute and people using it are universally recognized as Nazis. Right?

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