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In reply to the discussion: This white supremacy hand signal is really making the rounds. These cops should be suspended [View all]JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I'm not sure why they are relying on 4chan myself.
Some time around 2015, the OK sign became popular among Trump supporters. Know Your Meme gives a meticulous history, showing its use by figures like Mike Cernovich (a brain-pill salesman who believes Hillary Clinton ran a pedophile ring out of a pizza shop) and Milo Yiannopoulos (who swears hes not a neo-Nazi but surrounds himself with neo-Nazis). Both of these men famously thrive on publicity and controversy, which explains a lot of what happened next.
The what happened next is that people started associating the hand sign with white supremacy, and not unreasonably. As Douglas points out, on election night back in 2016, open white supremacist Richard Spencer tweeted a photo of himself flashing the OK sign in front of a Trump International Hotel with the caption Tonights the night.
Several months later, an anonymous post appeared on 4chan detailing OPERATION O-KKK, the intentional use of the OK sign as an ironic meme designed to force leftists to dig themselves deeper into lunacy, until the rest of society aint going anywhere near that shit.
https://medium.com/s/story/does-the-ok-sign-actually-signify-white-power-or-what-6cf3309df985
Anti Racism is a left wing idea these days so not sure why they are obsessed with this if they aren't racist.