Showing posts with label the okay symbol. imagined racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the okay symbol. imagined racism. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 November 2019

The 'Okay' sign



One day, a nuisance idiot on a site called 4chan decided - as a joke - that he would say that the okay sign was a symbol for white supremicism.  

Such is the madness of the day, that instead of laughing and moving on,  more idiots believed them, and now, if you look it up, you are advised not to use it.  It is 'problematic,' some say.  Other sites frankly call it a hate symbol, or even Nazi.  

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Like a lot of nonsense invented by the Politically Correct brigade, it has caused harm. 
According to the article, link below, an actor was fired for using this harmless gesture. 


And it is harm, too, to tell us we cannot use this common symbol
 that has been around for hundreds of years.  

It means 'okay.'  We all know it it means okay. 




It started as a joke. Now, we are told that we should be very careful about using the symbol.

I intend to treat the suggestion
that we take care when using it as a joke.


It is a joke.


It is only when we give credibility to such nonsense that it sticks.





So use the symbol. Use the symbol whenever you like.  
And then, after a time, maybe the rot about it being racist will be forgotten.

We do not have to take notice of the nonsense around these days.  Okay?