TIL people take a lot of personal pride in their punch games. I'm not sure this is more or less inane than MMA forum threads
This is also very true. Granted any hand motion whatsoever in a MAGA hat becomes racist. A simple high five could be a gesture of white supremacy if the person who's doing it is Richard Spencer. But context will always be the difference-maker and I think that the context in the Amazon posting is fine unless it's used by someone who decides to make it for another purpose.Nah your first case isn't always true. There are times when it's been used below the waist with White Supremacists as well. The only true way to tell is context. If they're wearing MAGA hat it's proooobably racist.
For what it's worth, I'm 42 and played this when I was in middle school and I'm from Ohio.I don't know if anyone has mentioned, but this game was not created during the internet age or even the 90s. I played this back in the 80s and it was called "cherry" to us, although I'm sure it went by many other names. We were about 99% Mexican or Mexican-Americans in my neighborhood btw. It definitely wasn't a racist thing either. This and the white power symbol as far as I can tell are slightly different. The white power symbol should have the fingers wide apart from each other in order to form a W, this one the fingers are not necessarily apart and usually kind of curved as well.
Edit: I guess that link explains the game pretty good, though I don't it started in Ohio, lol. It wouldn't travel that fast to the L.A. area before the internet.
Yeah I'm 42 as well from Los Angeles and played it here as well. I wasn't saying it wasn't played in Ohio, but that I doubt that it originated there in the 80s. These things took time to travel back in those days, I played this in Elementary (early to mid 80s) as well as Junio High (middle school).For what it's worth, I'm 42 and played this when I was in middle school and I'm from Ohio.
Oh yeah I wasn't implying we invented it. No clue how it started though. Maybe some movie or something or maybe one of those things that's been around literally forever and you go to your goofy uncle's house and he wails on you and you show your friends the next day or something who knows lolYeah I'm 42 as well from Los Angeles and played it here as well. I wasn't saying it wasn't played in Ohio, but that I doubt that it originated there in the 80s. These things took time to travel back in those days, I played this in Elementary (early to mid 80s) as well as Junio High (middle school).
What did you guys call it? We called it cherry over by my neighborhood.Oh yeah I wasn't implying we invented it. No clue how it started though. Maybe some movie or something or maybe one of those things that's been around literally forever and you go to your goofy uncle's house and he wails on you and you show your friends the next day or something who knows lol
TIL people take a lot of personal pride in their punch games. I'm not sure this is more or less inane than MMA forum threads
Lol I admit I clicked the spoilerWhat did you guys call it? We called it cherry over by my neighborhood.
They chose it because you need a lot of context to explain to someone why the OK sign, in specific contexts, are a white supremacy symbol. Just out right saying this: "If you hold up, fingers pointing up, that's white power" is exactly what the alt-right wants you to do because you're just outright saying the ok symbol is a white power symbol without any context, which IS silly. Doing the ok symbol isn't a white supremacy symbol, doing it in specific scenarios and contexts is.That's why they chose it, so it makes people look silly when they question it.
Yet look at all the supremacists in their pictures, that's how they use it
Remember, if your friend does this to you, put your finger into it.
Then punch them.
They chose it because you need a lot of context to explain to someone why the OK sign, in specific contexts, are a white supremacy symbol. Just out right saying this: "If you hold up, fingers pointing up, that's white power" is exactly what the alt-right wants you to do because you're just outright saying the ok symbol is a white power symbol without any context, which IS silly. Doing the ok symbol isn't a white supremacy symbol, doing it in specific scenarios and contexts is.
Wait what?Thread summary:
Circle with fingers pointing up - Is apparently now an alt right thing
Circle with fingers pointing down - Circle game
Also, apparently the alt right can just take whatever cool shit they want and make it theirs, like said image:
Thus ruining the fun and people are just cool with this constantly happening.
Did I sum everything up here?
Someone asked me why James Gunn got fired and I had to give them a whole dissertation so they actually understood.
Unfortunately, it has been appropriated by the White Supremacist movement, Pepe-style.
The QA section of the page answers that question:
Q: Is this the white power hand sign?
A: Yes, yes it is.
S Wingo | 14 hours ago
Someone asked me why James Gunn got fired and I had to give them a whole dissertation so they actually understood.
Wait what?
The fingers pointing up is the 'OK' symbol.
Fingers pointing down is the circle game.
Both have been co-opted by the trolls to become alt-right symbols.
I made a thread about this not so long ago where people were saying that using the 'OK' symbol was fine, now a week later it seems that it is back to being a recognized as a hate symbol.
It was in the high school nazi salute photo. The guy at the front was doing the fingers pointing down version while everyone was doing their sieg heil salutes.Can you link me to an article or instance of the fingers specifically pointing down being co-opted by trolls to be an alt-right symbol? So far I've only seen evidence of fingers up being such a thing.
It was in the high school nazi salute photo. The guy at the front was doing the fingers pointing down version while everyone was doing their sieg heil salutes.
There are also three other answers saying it's not. Which one am I supposed to believe?The QA section of the page answers that question:
Q: Is this the white power hand sign?
A: Yes, yes it is.
S Wingo | 14 hours ago
I'm pretty sure that student in the photo was doing the circle game symbol and not the white power, people seem to have twisted that because all the other racist a holes.It was in the high school nazi salute photo. The guy at the front was doing the fingers pointing down version while everyone was doing their sieg heil salutes.
I'm kinda convinced this is a troll thread cause, yeah, there are much easier targets to call out...Yes, if the question is unanswered.
Also, I just wanna add, there's actual racist shit on Amazon. This fucking pin which ain't even racist is on the lowest of tiers, c'mon now.
It was still used as a white supremecist hand signal prior to the 4chan thing (or at least a variation), but not nearly as widely propagated. I think the idea of it being a joke is questionable in the first place. I've seen the thread on 4chan where this was cooked up. It's not really a prank though when a board with lots of white supremecists decides to use a specific hand signal. Like... what's the "joke"? White supremecists using the hand signal to "prank" liberals into thinking they're making a white supremecist hand signal?Yep. It was this before 4chan decided to make it an alt right joke meme and then people on the alt right were too dumb to get the "joke" part so now it's an alt right meme.
lol at first i thought it was to make crispy edge browniesYeah, when I saw this thread I was expecting something more like this from Etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/506957611/cookie-cutter-swastika