Some thoughts on Alt-right Trolling.

[Caliman73]

34. Context.

When a bunch of people who have all come out in support of White Supremacy use a symbol with an already agreed upon message for the purpose of trolling another group of people to "point out how sensitive the other group is to the propagation of White Supremacy" when does that symbol actually start being an internal/external marker for the White Supremacy supporting group?

You understand that the Swastika was not a Nationalist Socialist (Nazi) sign to begin with right? It was a Hindu symbol that Hitler took and made into his own and then propagated among the Nazis. Similarly, the Cross was not a KKK symbol either, until the KKK integrated it into their message.

I am not saying that the OK hand gesture is an iron clad symbol of White Supremacy. It is a troll. However, it is a troll from White Supremacists who want to upset Liberals by intimating that the sign is indicating White Power. The hand sign is almost irrelevant at this point. The problem is that we have a bunch of jerk off White Supremacist supporting people within a presidential administration and affiliated power structures who are walking around thinking of the great fun it is to piss people off by using the hand gesture knowing that it is now linked (even if not directly) to the White Supremacy problem.