The right wing loves people like you. You're doing exactly what they want and aren't even aware you're being manipulated.
Or maybe Korea couldn't give a shit for the current woke antics of The West and make their movies how they want. Good on 'em
You do realize that the sign being discussed is the upside down Ok symbol. The picture you are showing is just the normal one.
But go on doing the right wing's work for them. I'm sure they appreciate it.
You do realise many people are getting in a heap of shit for using the universally accepted 'OK' sign right?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-13/nsw-police-officer-ok-symbol-black-lives-matter-march/12352134
There's a photo of the police in the article of him showing the 'right side up' OK symbol.
"We have spoken extensively to the officer in question and he has advised the hand gesture was simply the 'are you OK' sign directed at two protesters who looked distressed," a Victoria police statement read.
But screenshots then emerged from a Facebook page appearing to belong to the officer, which displayed a number of memes circulated by the alt-right movement.
"In regards to his social media page, we are aware of a small number of posts which include inappropriate memes," Victoria Police said.
"Under no circumstances are these posts reflective of the values of Victoria Police."
The statement said the officer had been spoken to about the posts, "Although they were made more than 12 months ago, he is aware of our extreme disappointment".
Why is the OK symbol associated with white power?
The OK sign has been co-opted by the far-right, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an international organisation that aims to "fight anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry".
Touching the thumb and index finger is meant to symbolise the letter P, meaning power, while the three remaining fingers make a W, meaning white.
The symbol grew in notoriety after a 2017 hoax on an online forum called 4chan, where users "falsely promoted the gesture as a hate symbol, claiming the gesture represented the letters 'WP' for 'white power'," according to the ADL.
But the prank was so successful that it solidified the gesture as "a popular trolling tactic on the part of right-leaning individuals".
So the police officer gets dickheads memeing a year old photo with their NAZI shit and the officer gets reprimanded for it. To hell with that
Here is another
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/nsw-police-denies-officer-knowingly-made-alt-right-hand-symbol-after-photo-circulates-on-social-media
New South Wales police has denied an officer knew he was making a hand symbol frequently used by members of the alt-right after he was photographed doing the "OK" gesture during a response to protests against police brutality.
The photo, taken in Sydney's CBD on Friday night, shows the officer making the controversial gesture - his thumb and index finger forming a circle while extending his other three fingers - towards the camera.
In a statement to SBS News on Saturday, a NSW Police Force spokesperson said the officer was responding to a group of women about the night being "okay" and used his hand as he was wearing a face mask.
Need more? It has nothing to do with being upside down or not. People like that brentan Tarrant knob who murdered 51 people did it upside down maybe because he was in handcuffs with police either side of him
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/the-ok-hand-gesture-is-now-a-hate-symbol-but-it-s-also-a-crucial-part-of-sign-languages
Until recently, the OK hand gesture was exactly that: a-okay. Then the alt-right arrived.
You're probably familiar with the gesture in question: thumb and forefinger meet to form a circle, with the other three fingers extended.
Over the past couple of months, the innocent gesture has been rapidly co-opted by the alt-right movement and turned into a symbol of hate. It began as a hoax, a meme trolls used to garner media attention (as it turns out, when you declare an ordinary, commonplace symbol to have a sinister double meaning, plenty of outlets will breathlessly report on any instance of that symbol being used).
I haven't been following it closely enough it seems. Yeah, it started out as upside-down down but seems to have expanded to right side up now that it's become popular and spread far enough among the alt-right, NAZIs, skinheads, white supremacists and other racist groups like the Proud Boys. So now they are using it right side up too. Wonderful.
He wasn't fired for making the ok symbol, he was fired because after making it they took a closer look at him and found offensive right wing racist posts he made.
If he was just a normal cop giving the OK sight 'to check if protestors were ok' it would have been fine. But no, he was an alt-right troll who thought making the sign right side up would be safe enough to do, get his little dig in at the BLM protestors. But didn't think far enough ahead to realize they might dig into his background a bit more.
They choose common symbols to appropriate because they know they can just say 'wot its all a prank dude its just an ok symbol!' and people will believe them. Then they can use that symbol to identify with each other, and flash it at minorities. Denying it's now become a symbol for being a racist dick just helps them. It sucks when they do this, but they suck in general so no surprise there.
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