OK Hand Gesture π
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In 2017 the 4Chan/QAnon crowd tried to dupe the leftist media that the π gesture stood for white power. The rubes bit.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2022-07-13 |
Facts
- In Buddhism the gesture Vitarka MudrΔ and is the gesture of discussion and transmission of Buddhist teaching.
- In Roman/Greek culture it often means love or matrimony (symbolizing the ring/bond).
- In 2017, users on the message-board site 4chan aimed to convince the media and other people that the OK gesture was being used as a white power symbol, as a joke.
- According to The Boston Globe, users on 4chan's /pol/ ("Politically Incorrect") board were instructed in February 2017 to "flood Twitter and other social media websites...claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy," as part of a campaign dubbed "Operation O-KKK".
- The satirical association of the gesture with white supremacy derived from the assertion that the three upheld fingers resemble a 'W' and the circle made with the thumb and forefinger resemble the head of a 'P', together standing for "White Power."
- Far left ADL added it to their symbols of hate, so they could find hate everywhere and use that as proof of a rise that they could campaign/fundraise on. They later corrected it, but blame the belief on the right instead of the gullibility of the left, and pretend it still means White Power, instead of it really meaning "look at these chumps get outraged because they think this means White Power". [1]
Innocence (or mockery) is no excuse[edit | edit source]
Even though it is not real, doesn't mean you can't get punished. Here's a people getting bent, not realizing that most uses are innocent or mean something else, and the rest are mocking the left for thinking it means something it does not:
- In July 2018, four police officers in Jasper, Alabama were suspended for a week for making the gesture while posing for a group photo.
- In September 2018, the U.S. Coast Guard disciplined an employee who conspicuously made this gesture in the background of a newscast.
- In March 2019, Idaho Lt. Governor Janice McGeachin received considerable criticism for posing with members of the 3 Percenter right-wing militia group outside of her office who made the palm-inward gesture.
- In March 2019, white supremacist terrorist Brenton Tarrant flashed the sign to cameras in a New Zealand courtroom during his arraignment for the fatal shooting of 51 people in the Christchurch mosque shootings.
- In May 2019 a Chicago Cubs fan was banned from Wrigley Field for using the gesture behind black commentator Doug Glanville during a TV report.
- In May 2019, Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High School spent $53,000 to reprint its yearbook after 18 students showed the OK sign in pictures. School officials stated that the symbol's association with white supremacy could jeopardize the students' reputations and future college and job prospects, so they would be removing the photographs from the yearbook in its reprinted form.
- In October 2019, an actor portraying the character Gru from Despicable Me was fired by the Universal Orlando theme park, for displaying the gesture in a photo with a biracial girl. The photo showed the costumed actor standing behind the girl while making the OK gesture on her shoulder.
- In January 2020, the perpetrator of the Bærum mosque shooting flashed the Nazi salute and the OK hand sign during a court hearing. He repeated the use of the sign at the start of his trial.
- During the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, men in the crowd were pictured making the gesture.
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