Isn't the circle game just supposed to be below the waist anyways?
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Universal Orlando Fires Gru Actor for Flashing White-Power Symbol in Photo With Biracial Girl
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Really? The "OK" symbol is as wildly considered racist as Nazi symbolism now? This is ridiculous.
I'm just gonna leave this thread.
i remember this symbol being used at school and all it meant was that if you looked, you got punched on the shoulder. something stupid like that. was that not the case for others? (should say this was way before trump era)
had no clue this was co-opted
had no clue this was co-opted
The fuck is wrong with you?
Dude literally flashes white power symbol while posing with a person of colour.
I am not saying the gesture being racist is obvious. I am saying that his use of it in this instance and the intent behind it is obvious. Because it is.
But hey if you wanna keep playing devil's advocate for a racist piece of shit then go for it.
Lol ain't no one tossing out the "OK" symbol like that but stealth racists
It's a racist symbol. It's been classified as such regardless if you had to google it beforehand.
The one thing I love about this whole OK sign shit are all the assholes who are like, "Since when did the OK sign become racist?" but when you point out that randomly flashing the OK sign in photos is literally not a thing and has never been a thing it's just crickets.
Yes, it is the also the OK sign and there are times when people show it without racist intent but while having their photo taken? And especially in groups? And ESPECIALLY in groups of self-admitted white nationalists? To signify, what, that something is OK? So fucking dumb and transparent. You know they are being disingenuous and so do they. It's part of the "lol getting trolled" song-and-dance for these fucking losers.
Yes, it is the also the OK sign and there are times when people show it without racist intent but while having their photo taken? And especially in groups? And ESPECIALLY in groups of self-admitted white nationalists? To signify, what, that something is OK? So fucking dumb and transparent. You know they are being disingenuous and so do they. It's part of the "lol getting trolled" song-and-dance for these fucking losers.
Extreme? The dude flashed a white power symbol while posing for a picture with a child and got fired.
But that's "extreme" to you?
damn, not even surprised about 'bowl cuts' tbh, and i remember when pepe got built up into the garbage. can't have nothing nice
Yes, it's been this way for a while now: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll
Yeah I think you should. Because you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. And playing devil's advocate for a racist probably isnt the best look.
I'm going to play devil's advocate here and say that I have had friends do this in pictures long before this became a racist gesture.
Not saying it's still okay to do it because it isn't with how it's associated, but it's not like it hasn't been done.
These things are context-dependant. If you see a group of white people making the OK symbol in a picture devoid of context, it's a lot more likely they are doing it as signaling. If you see one dude using an OK symbol when someone asks them to do something, it is a lot less likely.
I'm glad people aren't having it in here. But then I also don't see much about the 'circle game' worth defending either.
Not at all that, but I could see the sign being an accident/coincidence if it truly were an isolated case. It's not completely out of the question that his hand might take that shape once doing possibly hundreds of similar posed photos with people every day. I mean, if there is evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that he used the sign intentionally, then yeah, I would agree that it's grounds for termination in today's context. It would be pretty hard to convince people that he only meant to be using it in the "OK" meaning in that kind of situation.
I've always felt like the context for distinguishing between the 'ok' sign, circle game, or 'wp' symbol is almost always obvious.
Sneaking it into a photo with a biracial girl only really fits one context.
Sneaking it into a photo with a biracial girl only really fits one context.
i think this symbol is used more by idiots on the internet, and since idiots on the internet do not care about nobody but themselves, the overlap with the white supremacists is quite large.
but i have seen this thing used as a meme more than a hate symbol, i obviously dont circle places on the internet where is used as a hate symbol so my view is a little skewed
but i have seen this thing used as a meme more than a hate symbol, i obviously dont circle places on the internet where is used as a hate symbol so my view is a little skewed
I know racists aren't the most intelligent bunch, what the fuck did he think was going to happen?
Christ, there's always one of you.
Christ, there's always one of you.
Wait. That's an altright symbol now? I thought that was the game symbol. You know what I'm talking about.
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Context is a thing, OK sign isn't always racist. It's not like his hand did that while clutching her shoulder. He deliberately did it. Why? Who or why would he be signaling okay or playing the ball game? I doubt he was telling the adults "go ahead, take the picture" he could have removed the sign.
It's a dog whistle, because only some people get it. That's the point. They think they are being sneaky about it.
It's a dog whistle, because only some people get it. That's the point. They think they are being sneaky about it.
I definitely didn't know it was an alt-right symbol now. Played that circle game throughout mid school and high school. That's all I know it as.
that is below gru's waste though. Not defending him, BTW. If it is an alt-right thing now then I'm not for this one bit. Fuck that dude. I'm just legitly confused.
And it appears there's 10 of you jumping over yourselves to assume the worst about everyone's intentions. If the sign was intentional, then yeah, case closed, but it's hard to know from the details in the story and a single low-res image that looks like it was taken from a smartphone at possibly any moment.
There are lots of cases where I could give the benefit of the doubt to the person using this symbol. This case isn't one of them. There's no reason to be using the OK symbol in that context and the peep hole game doesn't make sense here. That's not a natural hand gesture in that scenario and he's posing with a biracial girl. It's really, really obvious that this was intentional.
hell, sometimes it's on the nose instead of sneaky
its all a joke to them
hell, sometimes it's on the nose instead of sneaky
Maybe this the first time they did this though? I need to know.
Hey she might have just been stretching. She might have forgot that she needed to wave and that's why her arm formed a perfect Nazi salute. You never know.
But hey I'm definitely NOT defending her. I'm totally just playing devil's advocate.
na, he's just playing the circle game in the midst of a bunch of nazi salutes. gottem
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