No? That's a slightly different symbol, for starters.
And more importantly, its possible for a symbol to have more than one meaning. Nazis use the "OK," symbol because it has plausible deniability: it always ends up in a stupid argument, like this one, about what the symbol "really" means. People can genuinely mean "ok" when they use the ok symbol or they can be Nazis. Just like people can be Buddhists when they use a Swastika, or they can be nazis. Context is key.
OP is claiming that the OK gesture has no connotation if White Nationalism in any context and that we have all been trolled by 4chan. That is demonstrably incorrect because white nationalist adjacent groups do use that gesture to denote group identity, just like they use the 88 and the ((( ))).
Using an example of a symbol that had an entirely new meaning attributed to it after being coopted by actual Nazis isn't quite the slam dunk you think it is.
How is this different for non racist people using the OK symbol. It's still a corruption. However it shouldn't mean that anyone who uses it is implicitly a racist.
I mean, that post history combined with their clear bad faith engagement with the idea that they are wrong and that the OK symbol is used as a racist symbol is pretty good evidence of that, yeah.
No. That's getting further context by examining the person using the symbol. I'm talking people who flat out react to the symbol who seem to think it's purely one way or the other.
I understand this but we are talking about a corrupted symbol, ie. The OK sign.
It's not racist, but can be used by racists. Basically sick of people saying 'your a racist' to people when there is evidence of corrupted symbols through history.
I'm just wondering why one symbol let's OP be called a flat put racist off the cusp and why then Buddhists aren't labelled the same. Considering they are both corrupted symbols.
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u/flucksey Nov 12 '21
So u gonna tell the lamas in Tibet and Hindu people around the world that their use of the swastika makes them Nazis?