Letsago posted...
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What's the deal with the thumb? The message of the shirt is obvious, but I don't get the thumb part.
Originally, when I was entertaining the thought process of the guy I quoted (whose message is now deleted), I tried to look at it through the lens of "although extremely improbable, could the person who made the shirt have not known".
The reasoning was "you'd have to ignore the white vs black part" which I guess could be written off as "I just like the colors", the "black power fist" which would have to be written off as "maybe the guy just googled a fist and didn't know", and the paper expression as "maybe the guy just grabbed a stock image of a flat hand and accidentally angled it".
The point is to highlight how generous you'd have to be to either "not see the tones" or to give the creator the benefit of the doubt.
After making the post and seeing a comment about fingers missing, I looked at the fingers, noticed the thumb, and was like "Wait, that's not a paper expression being used to disguise a salute, that's a straight up Nazi salute. Nobody does 'paper' that way.". When I saw it earlier, I didn't see the thumb and thought it was a flat hand.
With that in mind, I don't think there's
any
level of generosity that makes this not offensive. The black power fist could be excused as extremely unlikely but possible that someone searches "fist" and finds it, but the salute itself you'd have to straight up purposely grab that.