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
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Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 day agoEven 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
chocrates@piefed.world 1 day ago
Deme@sopuli.xyz 1 day 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 1 day 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.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
That’s just the ok-sign.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day ago
That’s palm outward, this is inward
splcenter.org/…/what-ok-hand-signal-means-militia…
Deme@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Zach Rehl, leader of the Philadelphia Proud Boys, making the OK gesture in November 2020
He’s doing it like that.