You would have to be a goddamn fool, completely divorced from modern internet culture, to not know the history of how the alt-right intentionally turned the "OK' sign into meme for 'white power' precisely in order to gaslight ppl who called them out on it. https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/946777987080474624 …
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I'm sure it's just a coincidence that all these people are saluting in exactly the same way.pic.twitter.com/3Vr2rXNK9M
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These ppl would say "of course I'm not giving an alt-right sign! I'm just giving an OK sign! You're so crazy!" That's the whole point. The idea was to come up with a signal that would make people who noticed it and called it out look foolish b/c it's "just" an OK sign.
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This is about gaslighting. These people think they're ultra-clever meme-warriors. What they don't realize is
@Popehat's Maxim: someone who only f**ks goats "ironically" is still a goat-f**ker.112 replies 632 retweets 4,065 likesShow this thread
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