Why is the OK HAND SIGNAL no longer acceptable?

[AviatorTom]

The OK hand signal has been around for years. It's a means of non-verbally acknowledging someone. But lately, it may no longer be acceptable.

It now is apparently used by some as a symbol of White Supremacy.

The D. C. United soccer team fired the club's athletic trainer for allegedly making a "discriminatory hand gesture" in a photo that appeared on social media. What was the gesture? An OK hand signal. Here's a link to that story on NPR.

A Major League Soccer trainer was fired for flashing the 'OK' hand sign in a photo

What do you think?

Is it OK or not to signal OK?

[NamerOfStars]

At this point, if you're bothered by "white supremacy", you need to focus less on being offended, and more on not being inferior to white people. I mean, if we can see the "okay" sign (or the letter F, for that matter), exercise, punctuality, and math without being offended, and you can't, then what exactly is your reasoning for why we aren't superior?

The good news is, we're recruiting! Make like the Irish, Jews, Asians, and Larry Elder, and come join the club! We're so supreme, we don't even care about skin color!

Or maybe it's supposed to be "supreme" in the taco sense, and we're all just covered in sour cream.

[exitseven]

If it is good enough for Buckwheat it should be good for everyone.

OH-TAY

[AviatorTom]

Adult Buckwheat... not the original. 😀

[exitseven]

I could not find a picture of the original one.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO

[mandyfire98]

Because racist turds started using it and adopted it. Same as the comic book characters skull picture. Racist groups started heavily using it as a symbol so much so that the comic book company ended up disowning their own symbol.

Same as the swastika. Originally a positive symbol from Tibet I believe. We know how that ended.

Hayeful people ruin everything

[mandyfire98]

Hateful

[purplepoppy]

Is it because the 3 fingers form a W for white and as others say it's been adapted by race hate groups. Or is it because that's the shape your hand makes when you brush back the short and curlies to give head?

[madhatters4]

much like the swastika (sanskrit for good fortune) was appropriated by a white supremacist the same happened with the "OK" hand symbol.

[LiamJHayden]

To me it is the same as a thumbs up. I guess some losers tried to appropriate it, and the "Let's get offended at everything" crowd went along with it so they'd have something else to complain about instead of only pointing out its misuse by the racist crowd.

[BCRanger10]

Because some clowns with nothing else to do decided that it's a symbol that means whi... implies that one particular race of lighter complexion is more powerful than and superior to all other races.

[MysticDevice]

Yeah thats just a bunch of malarky. It means "OK". People are just inventing new things to be offended by.

Like when ultra Christian conservatives claimed Monster Energy was created by the Iluminati, or something, and used to worship the devil.

[EmmaMary]

Yet another case of complete and utter Bollox.

[NaultD]

Dog whistles are complicated. Racist even like to recreate normal gestures as a dog whistle and then make a compilation of normal people going see racists everywhere. So one instance shouldn't be assumed. 4 or 5 it's less likely a coincidence.

[DizzyDesii]

I’m black and still give the okay signal so white supremacy my ass lmao

[DarkWinterNights]

If I remember correctly it was someone on a 4chan message board who made a bet they could manipulate the media into thinking even a basic hand gesture was a racist dogwhistle to prove how gullible the media was. Seems they won that bet.


I would argue articles and stories like that make more people prejudiced than a goofy hand signal. Even if some random racists decided that the okay hand sign was suddenly racist.

[Anonymous]

My favorite radio guy says that this is what communists do. They make the rules, to see how stupid you are. I don’t follow the rules.

[Sargentcaptain]

People made jokes, retards were butthurt. A tale as old as time.

[Dargil]

Because, like anything they want to be, it's Racist. I always thought it meant "good as pussy".

[madhatters4]

like everything? everything?
white supremacists appropriated the symbol. This is a fact. there's literally nothing to debate here

[Lliam]

I'm going to start using that signal a lot more now that I now it offends "woke" leftist A-holes. 👌🖕👌🖕👌🖕

[ShadezMcgee]

White supremacy my balls. They tried framing that with Kyle Rittenhouse as part of the smear campaign against him.

I see it daily by all races. Anyone who believes it is a symbol for that is the true jackass.

[madhatters4]

so the Proud Boys just through that simple around to say everything is "A-ok"? really?

if you believe that you won't believe what i have to sell you. It's a bean but not just any ordinary bean. it's a magic bean. but don't be fooled by all those people telling you magic doesn't exist.

[ShadezMcgee]

@madhatters4 and you are only proving my point. The Proud Boys doing the ok symbol is no different from common use and what it means, just that "ok", it was merely slapped as white supremacy as an additional smear against them as well. Try again.

So when you are done with your passive aggressive bullshit, come holler again. I will be waiting.

[madhatters4]

so they take pictures routinely flashing the OK symbol? that's what you are saying? really?

give me your credit card number. i'll give you a discount on those beans

[ShadezMcgee]

@madhatters4 your beans suck, much like your attempt to argue with me.

One would think age brings wisdom, but it evidently skipped you. I will say yes that it is just "ok". Because do you heckle every person that does it? The second you do that to everyone who throws that symbol, then we will talk. In the meantime, run along. Pretty sure you are wasting precious time arguing with me when you could be watching The View, CNN and MSNBC.

[madhatters4]

literally don't watch any of those things
who heckles every person that does "it"? who? me? what are you talking about?

[ShadezMcgee]

@madhatters4 yes. Heckles, harrasses others about it. I am referring directly to you. If you are giving people who give the "ok" symbol flak and calling them white supremacists, then you are a fool. Every race has given that hand sign at one point or another and in certain cultures it means the middle finger.

So, of you are going to label everyone a white supremacists who gives that symbol and heckle them over it, you sure as hell better be doing it to all races, gender and age brackets. That is what I am saying.

[madhatters4]

feel free to prove that i am guilty of any of that word vomit you just spewed. you are literally making up b. s. and then ascribing it to me. it's pathetic you can't argue in earnest but rather just say shit to justify your position regardless of how absurd and foolish it is.

white supremacism is a myth. the 'ok' gesture used by the proud boys is just to indicate that they are OK in every picture (can barely say that without laughing at the absurdity). it all makes sense when you don't try to think about it or are trying to confirm your bias right

[ShadezMcgee]

@madhatters4 coming from the man who is saying that anything in of itself that is hijacked by the "White supremacists" is now affiliated with it.

You yourself said in your comment "much like the swastika (sanskrit for good fortune) was appropriated by a white supremacist the same happened with the "OK" hand symbol." Thay is the true definition of it. Plain and simple, much like "ok" handsign is just ok. Pool only affiliate that with bad people because of what happened in history, not what the true embodiment of it is.

If I see a swastika, I will think Nazi because of what was taught and them having it affiliated with them at face value. However, it still means "good fortune" it was only evil when it was AFFILIATED and TAUGHT as evil as opposed to good fortune like it translates.

People like you are the reason things like this get to the extreme and look for wrongness in nothing like it is your job.

This is coming from a man who is half black and half white. There is another black person saying literally the same thing I did saying that it was just meaning "ok", you ignorant, stupid douche.

[madhatters4]

"coming from the man who is saying that anything in of itself that is hijacked by the "White supremacists" is now affiliated with it."
- didn't say that. also the statement doesn't make sense

"You yourself said in your comment "much like the swastika (sanskrit for good fortune) was appropriated by a white supremacist the same happened with the "OK" hand symbol." Thay is the true definition of it. Plain and simple, much like "ok" handsign is just ok. Pool only affiliate that with bad people because of what happened in history, not what the true embodiment of it is."

- i did say this. that is the only true point in this entire paragraph. the rest is either simply untrue or unintelligible

"People like you are the reason things like this get to the extreme and look for wrongness in nothing like it is your job."

- people like me who believe symbols can be appropriated to mean different things than they were originally intended are reasons things like this (what is this?) get to an extreme? all good if you believe that nonsense... but know it's nonsense

"This is coming from a man who is half black and half white. There is another black person saying literally the same thing I did saying that it was just meaning "ok", you ignorant, stupid douche. "

- race doesn't matter. it's ridiculous to think that race matters in having an intellectual discussion about the use and appropriation of symbols. completely unrelated matters. but congrats on being half black. i could care less

[Drewtate]

Yes. Also

[Emii_Urashima]

In some countries, it means "F*** you"

[Sasahara]

Long story short, sjws got trolled by 4chan. And instead of admitting they got trolled, they decided to lable the ok sign is a hate symbol.

[Iron_Man]

I just give the thumbs up. That seems more like a woman thing the Circle fingers, like okey-dokey

[Sparkie460]

Because it offended all the butt hurt people. Tell me something that doesn't offend someone.

[Meropatrick]

In my culture its equal to giving someone the middle finger.

[Meropatrick]

Its been like that even before it became for racisim. But it also means now that a white person is better than a person of color

[Anonymous]

This seems by far to the least likely thing that has ever happened.