I got banned from r/fuckthealtright for pointing this out after that Nicholas Sandmann staredown story at the Lincoln Memorial made headlines last year when people started posting pics like this about the high school basketball team, and I was all, "Whoa there folks, these kids are probably racist little shits, but this isn't evidence of it, unless all NBA players are culpable (like this is literally the sign everyone on the team throws up after making a three), which is super different from something like this." Those utter morons banned me for "supporting hate speech."
But it's what sparked me to seek out and eventually find communities like r/cth, so all a blessing.
the alt right tried to meme the ok sign into a wp symbol specifically to confuse id pol libs in exactly that way. it's a ubiquitous, non-offensive hand sign in the vast majority of the contexts in which it's used, and you need to be pretty fucking online to immediately think of it as a wp symbol
but if you see a bunch of proud boys (or those oinkers in your pic) throwing it up, you know exactly why they're doing that
I got banned from r/fuckthealtright for pointing this out after that Nicholas Sandmann staredown story at the Lincoln Memorial made headlines last year when people started posting pics like this about the high school basketball team, and I was all, "Whoa there folks, these kids are probably racist little shits, but this isn't evidence of it, unless all NBA players are culpable (like this is literally the sign everyone on the team throws up after making a three), which is super different from something like this." Those utter morons banned me for "supporting hate speech."
But it's what sparked me to seek out and eventually find communities like r/cth, so all a blessing.
this just sounds like more sportsball nonsense to me sweaty. did they field goal a home run too?
Forreal though, it's not like it's hard to find a pic of them being racist little shits without deliberately misunderstanding a standard basketball celebration. Is Melo's 3 to the dome cancelled now? What about JR's 3-rex?
the alt right tried to meme the ok sign into a wp symbol specifically to confuse id pol libs in exactly that way. it's a ubiquitous, non-offensive hand sign in the vast majority of the contexts in which it's used, and you need to be pretty fucking online to immediately think of it as a wp symbol
but if you see a bunch of proud boys (or those oinkers in your pic) throwing it up, you know exactly why they're doing that