The "OK" hand gesture is now racist

[JB White]

And it has been since an internet hoax in mid 2017.
The hoax was created on an open web site just to see if the liberal left would pick it up. Then they could sit back and laugh at the knee jerking panty wetters as they pounded on their keyboards.
The three upright fingers represent W while the circled forefinger and thump represent P.
WP = white power.

Once the screaming left got wind of it, naturally it was used in jest by those on the far right. There is currently a witch hunt for a baseball fan who flashed it at Wrigley Field.

Funny thing. The general public knew nothing about it being bad until the witch hunt started. So, be careful about signalling someone that all is okay.
We need a new signal.

[togor]

https://www.adl.org/education/refere...y-hand-gesture

ADL take on it. They indicate it may have shed its original ironic intent in some usage. Kids.

[blackhawknj]

Perhaps that hoax was started in retaliation for Trump appropriating the clenched fist salute.

[Allen]

Earthworms, canned tuna, the number 4, stop signs, alarm clocks, cloud formations, shoe laces, baseball bats, basically everything is racist and the term meaningless.

[dogtag]

"We need a new signal" ? How about the old one finger standby ?

[Roadkingtrax]

"We need a new signal" ? How about the old one finger standby ?

Hmmm...🤔

A British man would use a "V". That's a tell.

[clintonhater]

I'm not sure I've ever had occasion to display the "OK" sign; now, however, I'll try to stay alert to situations in which it might be used. (Though, like most "snappy retorts," I'll probably think of it only after the opportunity has passed.)

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A British man would use a "V". That's a tell.

What do you mean "British"? Hippies & other airheads appropriated that sign decades ago.

[blackhawknj]

It depends on which way a British man is holding his hand when makes the "V".
How about "Thumbs Up" or "Thumbs Down" ? Has a nice classical cachet to it.

[togor]

Before or after you stick it up Trumps bunghole? I bet you Sniff it later. Togor told me you did. It's a little game you and Sam play.

Actually Red not Togor who is into fecal play.

[Dolt]

Earthworms, canned tuna, the number 4, stop signs, alarm clocks, cloud formations, shoe laces, baseball bats, basically everything is racist and the term meaningless.

Is the word "NIGER" racist? Should it be?

[Allen]

Is the word "NIGER" racist? Should it be?

Probably not. There is a place in Africa named Niger. The term ni**er (2 g's) was derived from Nigerian or the color "negro". Crayola crayons used the term "negro" for the black color crayons as late as the 80's that I know of.

When I was young the proper term for blacks was "colored". Later they found that to be racist, singling them out to be different so THEY accepted the term blacks. Now, they don't like that term because it makes them appear to be different from white so they use a name that fits everyone like "African Americans". Go figure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger

[Cosine26]

If I remember correctly Nixon, when he was president on a tour through South America, learned that the closed fingers stood for calling someone an a$$hole in some countries

[Vern Humphrey]

Probably not. There is a place in Africa named Niger. The term ni**er (2 g's) was derived from Nigerian or the color "negro". Crayola crayons used the term "negro" for the black color crayons as late as the 80's that I know of.

When I was young the proper term for blacks was "colored". Later they found that to be racist, singling them out to be different so THEY accepted the term blacks. Now, they don't like that term because it makes them appear to be different from white so they use a name that fits everyone like "African Americans". Go figure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger

Ah, but a white American citizen born and raised in Africa -- i.e., Theresa Heinz Kerry -- cannot claim to be an "African American." For her to do so is racist.

Think about Copts, Arabs and Berbers from North Africa -- If they become citizens, can they call themselves "African Americans?"

[clintonhater]

When I was young the proper term for blacks was "colored". Later they found that to be racist, singling them out to be different so THEY accepted the term blacks.

Yes, "colored" is now banned from the PC vocabulary, but the most popular current euphemism (which may of course be ruled un-PC tomorrow) is "people of "color." Wonder why no name-change (yet) for NAACP?

[Vern Humphrey]

Yes, "colored" is now banned from the PC vocabulary, but the most popular current euphemism (which may of course be ruled un-PC tomorrow) is "people of "color." Wonder why no name-change (yet) for NAACP?

You're trying to use logic where prejudice and ignorance prevail.