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Rugian rank	Thu Sep 26 18:59:06 2019 ADL’s New Hate Symbols: ‘OK’ Hand Gesture, Dylann Roof Bowl Haircut, and Cartoon Moon Man Summer Eldemire Cheat Sheet Intern Updated 09.26.19 12:04PM ET Published 09.26.19 11:56AM ET The Anti-Defamation League has added the “OK” hand gesture, a mass killer’s bowl-style haircut, and an anthropomorphic moon wearing sunglasses to its online database of hate symbols. They are part of the 36 additions to the Jewish civil-rights group’s listing of almost 200 symbols used by white supremacists and far-right extremists. Many of the icons started out on message boards such as 4chan, 8chan, and Reddit before migrating to more mainstream platforms like Facebook and Twitter. “Even as extremists continue to use symbols that may be years or decades old, they regularly create new symbols, memes, and slogans to express their hateful sentiments,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. The bowl cut has became a symbol of hate as the hairstyle worn by Dylann Roof, who shot and killed nine black people in a church in Charleston in 2015. The Moon Man is a cartoon from a McDonald’s advertisement during the 1980s that became a symbol for rap songs with racist and violent lyrics. A 4chan trolling campaign said that the OK symbol formed the letters “W″ and “P″ to mean “white power.” Most recently, Brenton Tarrant, the suspect in the killing of 51 people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March, flashed the “OK” symbol at a court appearance. http://www...ed-to-adl-hate-symbol-registry
Paramount rank	Thu Sep 26 19:32:40 2019 So they want to equate the OK symbol and a haircut to the swastika. Okay.
Paramount rank	Thu Sep 26 19:35:09 2019 ”Even as extremists continue to use symbols that may be years or decades old, they regularly create new symbols, memes, and slogans to express their hateful sentiments,” So Dylann Roof got his particular haircut to express hate? Why don’t they also put Trump’s haircut on their hatelist?
Daemon rank	Thu Sep 26 19:52:07 2019 People hated me for my toothbrush moustache, too.
kargen rank	Fri Sep 27 22:52:37 2019 100% is racist. Damn guess that means I can't have a career in politics. I know I have said, written and typed 100% several times. I'm so racist I even got 100% on tests.
Cherub Cow rank	Fri Sep 27 23:41:04 2019 Kargen: you fucking *literal* (not literal) Nazi!!
kargen rank	Sat Sep 28 03:57:41 2019 http://www.adl.org/hate-symbols It gets worse. I was 12 for one entire year. I was also 13 and 14 shortly after that.
Paramount rank	Sat Sep 28 08:35:49 2019 Are we missing something? Submit a Hate Symbol to ADL at hate-symbols@adl.org I might submit the flag of Israel to them. It is a hate symbol that racist settlers use to display jewish supremacy over non-jews after they have attacked non-jews, destroyed their homes and stolen their lands.
Paramount rank	Sat Sep 28 08:42:30 2019 It's Okay To Be White “It’s okay to be white” is a slogan popularized on the website 4chan in 2017 for trolling purposes and which was soon adopted by white supremacists (who had occasionally used the phrase themselves in the past). - - So anyone who thinks it is okay to be white is a racist?
Dukhat rank	Sat Sep 28 09:27:35 2019 As was intended by the 4chan trolls who decided to adopt previously secular symbols as symbols of hate. Same thing with pepe which was just a stupid cartoon frog before.
Forwyn rank	Sat Sep 28 09:48:09 2019 And instead of writing it off as a meme, ADL, Cuckhat, and the rest of the leftist ilk bought it wholesale.
Dukhat rank	Sat Sep 28 11:11:17 2019 It's not really a meme when ICE enforcement officers are mixing it in with their racist and xenophobic facebook posts. It's a shitty way of trying to generate plausible deniability that noone buys outside of your internet circle-jerk.
patom rank	Sat Sep 28 12:00:52 2019 The OK symbol is still the OK symbol to me. The Betsy Ross flag is still the Betsy Ross flag to me. The Rebel Flag is still a symbol of the losing side in the Civil War. I don't give a good flying fuck what any idiot group wants to claim them and reinterpret them to mean. They still mean the same thing to me they always have. If these idiot groups want a symbol of themselves then hire someone to create one of their own.
Pillz rank	Sun Sep 29 00:19:27 2019 4chan trolls millions, again.
jergul rank	Mon Sep 30 13:41:44 2019 Pillz Nah. The symbol has been coopted. So context determines if it is used as a hate symbol or not. Nothing new there. Fascism and Nazism were great at stealing symbolism. To name but two.
Rugian rank	Mon Sep 30 20:20:18 2019 Jergul, Why stop at two? http://upl...ainbow_flag_and_blue_skies.jpg
jergul rank	Tue Oct 01 22:45:16 2019 Ruggy Add as many as you like. The more coopted symbols, the stronger my argument.
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