I never realized how much I made the
OK hand symbol until some jackasses turned it into a racist hate symbol and now have to constantly stop myself from accidentally doing it 
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Well, gestures in general are ambivalent: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/A-global-guide-to-hand-gestures/ …. I won’t stop using ‘
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Ambivalent or not, when a gesture starts getting used by the racists and the alt right, I take it as a good time to give it up and look for a different one. Your tweet reads a bit like “lemme explain to you why this racist joke isn’t racist” tbh.
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