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Old 12-20-2019, 03:55 PM
 
Location: San Jose
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Originally Posted by bobbythegreat View Post
Specifically to make you look stupid..... and it appears to have worked.
Stupid is defending the racist intentions of a known white nationalist and mass killer. Unless of course you hold similar views and aspirations of said killer. Do you?
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Old 12-20-2019, 03:58 PM
 
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Stupid is defending the racist intentions of a known white nationalist and mass killer. Unless of course you hold similar views and aspirations of said killer. Do you?
Stupid is continuing to fall for a 4chan hoax this long after everyone started laughing at you.
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Old 12-20-2019, 04:00 PM
 
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Are you really trying to ask if context and intent have any meaning in our society? What a bizarrely obtuse thing to ask.
I give you the finger, in what context would it not mean what it meant?

If I stated it meant "hello", would you just sit back and be fine with that?

Are you saying now individuals get to decide what long establish symbols, words, etc, mean, totally disregarding the years of history and what 99.99% of society thinks about it and how they use it?
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Old 12-20-2019, 04:12 PM
 
Location: San Jose
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Stupid is continuing to fall for a 4chan hoax this long after everyone started laughing at you.
The hoax quit working the second people who actually intended it as a symbol of white power started using it as a symbol for white power.

Its both odd and hilarious that you are now trying to act like a notorious white nationalist and mass killer is not intending the ok sign to be a symbol for white nationalism when he is intending the sign to be a symbol of white nationalism. Sorry little man, the joke is on you now. I'm not the fool trying to defend the intentions of terrorist....Good luck with that....
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Old 12-20-2019, 04:16 PM
 
Location: Just over the horizon
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So why did anybody think it suddenly meant "White Supremacy"? Where did that idea come from?


Everything is racist.


Didn't you get the memo?
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Old 12-20-2019, 04:21 PM
 
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The hoax quit working the second people who actually intended it as a symbol of white power started using it as a symbol for white power.
They use the US flag as a symbol of white pwoer only, so, displaying the flag is a symbol of hate? Oh hell, with people like you, you probably think so.

Fact is, no matter what you or who ever wants to believe, the ok symbol is just that, means ok. A few people wanting think otherwise does not change that fact. Someone using a symbol wrong is just plain and simply using a symbol wrong, does not change the meaning of the symbol.

The only reason why people like you want it to be is so you can go through every single white person and claim they are racist, but you will be obtuse to say a black person using it. And with your guilty until proven innocent mindset, you will think it is up to the person to prove it was not racist and they are not racist, which by your standards, if they are white, means they are racist be default.


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Its both odd and hilarious that you are now trying to act like a notorious white nationalist and mass killer is not intending the ok sign to be a symbol for white nationalism when he is intending the sign to be a symbol of white nationalism. Sorry little man, the joke is on you now. I'm not the fool trying to defend the intentions of terrorist....Good luck with that....
Yea, he is an idiot and thinks it means something that it does not. He used a symbol incorrectly, his use of a symbol incorrectly does not now make the symbol mean what he wants it to mean.

What is the next stupidity you are going to fall for? Maybe the rainbow flag will mean white power next, lol.
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Old 12-20-2019, 04:22 PM
 
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https://twitter.com/WestPoint_USMA/s...91754261430273

Will the media apologize for their lies?

They never do.



This was the crooked and reprehensible MSM trying to smear these fine young people because they cheered Trump.
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Old 12-20-2019, 04:28 PM
 
Location: San Jose
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I give you the finger, in what context would it not mean what it meant?

If I stated it meant "hello", would you just sit back and be fine with that?

Are you saying now individuals get to decide what long establish symbols, words, etc, mean, totally disregarding the years of history and what 99.99% of society thinks about it and how they use it?
The problem with you analogy is that the Middle Finger only has one meaning in our culture. I'll present to you another hand sign which is similiar.

Does this hand sign have the same meaning in both photos?




Obviously not....One is intended as a gesture of domination in a sporting competition, the other is a religious symbol.

What intention is this guy in the photo expressing with his hand sign? Imagine him trying to make the argument that he is just a big sports fan. Would you buy it? We all OBVIOUSLY can decipher his intentions. This is exactly the case with the Ok hand sign. We clearly know what is being intended by who is doing it and where its being done.
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Old 12-20-2019, 04:35 PM
 
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The hoax quit working the second people who actually intended it as a symbol of white power started using it as a symbol for white power.
It's never been legitimately used in that way, rather they use it to get stupid people to embarrass themselves so they can use it for recruiting propaganda.... the real question is if people like you are doing it on purpose or because you can't help but create racist propaganda.
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Old 12-20-2019, 04:44 PM
 
Location: Clyde Hill, WA
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This is not the first time this idiocy has appeared. During the confirmation hearings of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, an ex-clerk of his named Zina Bash was photographed giving the OK sign, and was widely suspected by media of flashing a 'white power' signal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-husband-says/

It turned out that she is of Mexican and Jewish ancestry. IIRC her grandparents on one side were holocaust survivors.
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