Current Events > Protip: just keep going about your lives using the OK symbol as much as before

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If you stop using it, then that means it's been truly co-opted. Just stop taking people seriously who think that it's a hate symbol. Just use it like normal. Nothing's changed.
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But also stop gaslighting people who call it out correctly when crypto-fascists and white supremacists are using it in that way.

The real genius move is to accept that it can be used to represent white supremacy within context and continue to use it outside of that context.

If we're going to pretend that it can't mean both okay and white supremacy, then it also can't mean the circle game, or zero in France, or anything else.

bye
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CommonStar posted...

But also stop gaslighting people who call it out correctly when crypto-fascists and white supremacists are using it in that way.

I mean, yeah sure. But personally I've never seen any of that.

But if people do, oh yeah, call it out I don't care. But don't think every other person making that sign is a white supremacist lmao, that's just asinine.
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Timohtep posted...

CommonStar posted...

But also stop gaslighting people who call it out correctly when crypto-fascists and white supremacists are using it in that way.

I mean, yeah sure. But personally I've never seen any of that.

But if people do, oh yeah, call it out I don't care. But don't think every other person making that sign is a white supremacist lmao, that's just asinine.

Basically no one is doing that and the ADL even said as much in their statement.
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I agree. Don't let it become a symbol of hate. That's what they want.
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creativerealms posted...

I agree. Don't let it become a symbol of hate. That's what they want.

It already is a symbol of hate. It just also isn't.
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*Shrug*. I never really used it before so....
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