Anonymous wrote:Jesus, libs have finally gone off the deep end with this one. Lord help us.

Anonymous wrote:People defending this are no different than silent or complicit Germans in 1933.

Anonymous wrote:Will I need to peruse neo-nazi literature before flashing the peace sign? Should we check quarterly to ensure we can still wave hello or offer a handshake?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that was the okay sign. When did that become a white power symbol? My childhood was a lie.

Newsflash to all the old people in here: you're old and the world has changed. The Alt-Right appropriated it as a symbol within the past few years.

The original White Power hand sign was this:
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Now? All these Alt-Right clowns are flashing the one-handed sign and then disingenuously claim "But it's the Ok sign!!! Waaaaahhhh!" *wink*wink*

You really going to believe a bunch of racist liars who call for a white-only ethnic state?

Anonymous wrote:For all the olds in here too busy paying a mortgage and taking kids to soccer practice to understand how bigotry has evolved, please read this:

But Mark Pitcavage, a senior researcher at the ADL's Center on Extremism told DailyMail.com in a statement Friday that it was intended to provoke those on the left and had been used by white supremacists.

He said: 'Over the past year, following a prank attempt originating on the website 4chan last February, a variety of people - mostly from the far right - have used the 'okay' hand gesture to signify their allegiance to right-wing causes or movements while simultaneously trolling people on the left, attempting to elicit a reaction.

'Some of the people using the gesture in this fashion have been open white supremacists, especially from the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement, but other people using the gesture include adherents of the so-called alt lite.

'Alt lite adherents are an offshoot of the alt right, typically disdaining the explicit white supremacy of the alt right while still embracing its other hateful attitudes towards women, immigrants, LGBTQ people, Muslims, and the left. Some other people on the right, such as Breitbart supporters, might also employ the gesture.

'It is important to acknowledge that the 'okay' hand gesture is one of the most common hand gestures in the United States, that most employment of that gesture is entirely innocuous, and that no racist or extremist implications should be read into its use unless the context of its use provides additional evidence to support such a finding.