Lol, white power sign actually means asshole in ASL!

[MoonRiver]

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[bahboo]

1. bwahaha....

love this!

[bdamomma]

2. very fitting

for white supremacists.

[Nululu]

3. Perfection

[LakeArenal]

4. Fitting but (butt) I'm American and I never heard or saw that.

[Xipe Totec]

19. Watch the movie Mr Holland's Opus

There is a scene where his son, who is deaf mute, makes that sign to his father. The mother has to explain to him that it means asshole.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/MrHollandsOpus

Precision F-Strike: Cole gives one to his father. Thanks to his relative unfamiliarity with ASL, it's a delayed PFS.

Glenn: What does this [makes ASL sign] mean?

Iris: It means "asshole".

[randr]

5. New fav expression I heard the other day

If I want to hear from an asshole I would fart.

[SunSeeker]

17. LOL

[momta]

28. I am so gonna use that. n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. This makes me smile

[niyad]

7. How absolutely fitting.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. So, one sign for synonyms.

Asshole = White Supremacist. Got it.

[RVN VET71]

24. I have to correct you on that

Some assholes are not white supremicists. My military experience was that there are assholes, for example, in the enlisted as well as officer ranks who are just assholes, both black and white. I have to admit I have never met an Asian who is an asshole, but the law of averages being what it is, (and seeing what Xi is doing to the Uighurs in China, as just one, glaring example)I doubt that Asians are totally exempt from the appellation.

Now, of course all white supremiscists are, without a doubt, assholes.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

31. You're absolutely correct! And now I have visions of Venn Diagrams in my head.

But is there a sliver of the "White Supremacist" circle that appears outside the circle of "Assholes"? Like you said, probably not.

Memories of Set Theory.

[Butterflylady]

9. That is great. So those guys are admitting their aholes.

How prefect.

[Permanut]

10. And one of them is left-handed.

I think he's probably a plant from Antifa, BLM, or Hillary Clinton's pedophile pizza parlor. We won't know for sure until we get our hands on Hunter Biden's hard drive.

"For centuries, the use of the sinister hand—from the Latin adjective for “left,” but also meaning “unlucky” or “evil”—has been considered inappropriate, even demonic, which is why left-handers were forced to change their natural tendency."

[link:http://bbvaopenmind.com|

[RVN VET71]

25. My father and brother started out as southpaws

and had it, literally, beaten out of them by nuns. I was fortunate in avoiding that stupidity, so can still claim handedness kinship with Sandy Koufax, Whitey Ford, and Warren Spahn, with whom I vicariously grew up!

[Joinfortmill]

11. ROFL

[ad121rome]

12. Yup

The well-known OK gesture, when held with the thumb on top at the level of the chest means "asshole", as seen in the film Mr. Holland's Opus.

[TheRickles]

13. This connection may not be valid.

This particular set of images comes from a Facebook meme that circulated in March 2019; here's a link from 2017 that shows a very different ASL sign for "a**hole":
[link:https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/profanity-in-american-sign-language/comment-page-1/|

There was a big 4chan push/hoax a couple of years ago to make the well-known "OK" sign into their secret signal, and this "a**hole" story may be more fallout from that.

Hopefully someone who's fluent in ASL can comment.

[ToxMarz]

18. From youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=fRpkXMtWxCQ

[TheRickles]

20. Thanks. And that clip's from 2014, before all the alt-right sh*t really hit the fan.

So it was an ironic coincidence: the white power guys didn't even know about the ASL sign, and thought they were just hijacking the "OK" sign.

[orleans]

14. think i'll stick to a simple thumbs up

but, in the past, when i sign OK i have spelled out the O and then the K
i've done it for years but i don't remember why i started it--i had deaf friends and maybe that's how they signed OK -- i know the typical OK sign is also the number nine

in the meantime here's way too much info on this sign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture

[Maine Abu El Banat]

15. That's the funniest thing I've heard in days!

[Tbear]

16. My Deaf son liked to use this one on me

when he was a teenager.

It's best if you make a forward thrust towards the offender, signaling that the Asshole is You.
Bonus points for using the universal teenage facial expression for disdain for your parents.

Edit to add: I noticed college basketball players have been using this hand sign when they or their teammate makes a three-point shot. I thought it was funny that many of our nations brightest and most athletic, many of whom are minorities, are celebrating a basketball play with the white loser handshape.

[efhmc]

21. Thanks for the info.

[Progressive Jones]

22. LOL ! I knew this ! My best friend's parents were both deaf.

My friend and his sister were not.

Everyone signed in their house. I picked up on a lot, and I definitely learned all the "swears". LOL

[Sogo]

23. And it was too obvious when the orange gasbag was speechifying

that he would always use that sign. I always wondered what the heck kind of hand gesture that was for a speaker, but I’m sure now that his Q followers were just lapping it up as a signal to them....which it surely was from the awful one.

[Loki Liesmith]

26. I have no idea how the ok sign can be construed as a white pier sign

One of the dumber memes the internet has created.

[Rebl2]

27. Perfect!

[BobTheSubgenius]

29. You say you can't live with what you been through

Well, ladies you can be an asshole too - Frank Zappa

[Polybius]

30. I thought everyone knew that

My "friend" in the 8th grade did that sign to me and explained what it meant in like '88 lol.