Chicago Cubs indefinitely ban fan who used offensive hand gesture behind Doug Glanville at game (nationalist, racist)

[Suburban_Guy]

Learn something new everyday.

Had no idea of the implications of this hand symbol.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/c...ville-at-game/

Two days after a fan was seen making an "OK" symbol with his hand on NBC Sports Chicago's broadcast of a Cubs game, the team has said they have permanently banned the man from Wrigley Field.

Okay Hand Gesture

In 2017, the “okay” hand gesture acquired a new and different significance thanks to a hoax by members of the website 4chan to falsely promote the gesture as a hate symbol, claiming that the gesture represented the letters “wp,” for “white power.” The “okay” gesture hoax was merely the latest in a series of similar 4chan hoaxes using various innocuous symbols; in each case, the hoaxers hoped that the media and liberals would overreact by condemning a common image as white supremacist.

[The Dark Enlightenment]

OK is not OK.

[JackF]

It was a punch-you-on-the-arm sign if you looked at it 35 years ago when I was in high school.

[Drewjdeg]

Originally Posted by JackF

It was a punch-you-on-the-arm sign if you looked at it 35 years ago when I was in high school.

Unfortunately it's been hijacked by 12 year old white nationalists on 4Chan. Now actual racists use it unironically so it's impossible to tell what it means.

[JackF]

Originally Posted by Drewjdeg

Unfortunately it's been hijacked by 12 year old white nationalists on 4Chan. Now actual racists use it unironically so it's impossible to tell what it means.

And if it’s used with fingers pointing up at a basketball game it means someone drilled a 3 point shot.

[MPowering1]

Waiting for the dopes to weigh in with, 'I had no idea using the OK sign was racist.'

It certainly seemed clear as to why he did that. What a jamoke.

[Speleothem]

Originally Posted by Suburban_Guy

Learn something new everyday.

Had no idea of the implications of this hand symbol.

Neither me.
I've used it all my life...now if I do it out of habit to show approval,
I might be socially ostracized, perhaps attacked.

[MPowering1]

Originally Posted by Speleothem

Neither me.
I've used it all my life...now if I do it out of habit to show approval,
I might be socially ostracized, perhaps attacked.

Have you used it the way he used it? Or were your fingers actually on top? Big difference.

[Speleothem]

Originally Posted by MPowering1

Have you used it the way he used it? Or were your fingers actually on top? Big difference.

I don't have the code book.

[MPowering1]

Originally Posted by Speleothem

I don't have the code book.

Ahh....okay.