No, bro, this is a variant of the game. The symbol you’re looking for is held upward. The white power symbol needs context that the douche using it is a white supremacist. Don’t call out a potential dogwhistle unless you have evidence that it is the dogwhistle. Otherwise, you’re barking at nothing (something the neo-nazi fucks want you to do, so they can label you crazy)
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chocrates@piefed.world 2 months ago
That weird hand gesture is the white power symbol
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Even if you interpret it that way it’s the wrong way up then. Your fingers have to point up to be a white power symbol
Deme@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
That’s just the ok-sign.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know it is. Some people choose to interpret it as a WP symbol. But it’s still upside down in this case so it’s clearly not one as well as this particular style being widely used as a meme a while back anyway.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s palm outward, this is inward
Deme@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Zach Rehl, leader of the Philadelphia Proud Boys, making the OK gesture in November 2020
He’s doing it like that.
chocrates@piefed.world 2 months ago
Eh, I disagree. Either the w or the p are going to be upside down.
The nazis stole the “ok” symbol a few years ago.We can pretend it doesn’t mean it if you want
Deme@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Pepe was also stolen back in 2016 or so, but that one got reclaimed by people “pretending” that it wasn’t a symbol of hate. The ok-sign shouldn’t even need to be reclaimed since it has such strong previous connotations. But if you do think that it is, and that every cheff doing the chefs kiss or a scuba diver saying “I’m ok” with their hand is actually doing a nazi hate symbol, then it too should be reclaimed.
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, I heard about this and completely ignored it. Until someone pulls me aside and tells me I’m flashing a hate symbol, I’m giving the okay. And even then, I’d only change my behavior for that one person. No way am I changing a 25±year habit for some fascist culturally appropriating fucks.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah, he’s just winning the game, racists angle the hand/dingers up for that. I didn’t think it was a common thing until I started buzzing my head (because I don’t have hair worth having) and then these fuckers popped up everywhere with their little signals treating me like one of them because I happen to be bald. It was a jarring revelation.
Coincidentally, that was around about the same time I learned how quickly racists fold when you start loudly calling them out at a crowded train station.
bobbyfiend@retrolemmy.com 2 months ago
I don’t think I was ever really a part of either of these trends, but my memory is that it started out as the game, then some white supremacists started to use it as their symbol. My hope is that the second association has broken down a bit for most people; I haven’t seen any pics on social media etc. of white supremacists doing this for a couple of years, so maybe the kids can have their game back.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I have not heard of that association for a long time. Mostly it’s just a lmaooo gotem -type of thing.
But sure, do give the nazis more ammo by giving ownership of such symbols to them.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
We’re taking it back!
olafurp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The wiki explains really well how it’s not a white power symbol. It requires fingers pointing up and even in that case it’s ambiguous.