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Deleted member 12790

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He's doing the circles thing because MEMES.

He said "Subscribe to Pewdiepie" because MEMES.

He shot up a mosque because MEMES.

None of it is actual white nationalism, guys, it's just rand0m sp0rk of D00M!!!!1! MEMES.
 

Treestump

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Trying to get caught up on this. Has there been any news about the other 3 in custody? Or has that changed?
 

skullmuffins

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This is an OK sign.
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it's the same symbol, pointed down. being handcuffed he can't exactly do the upright symbol even if he wanted to, but since he's a chan nazi, safe to say that was the intent.
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Can we put to bed once and for all the debate on whether the OK sign is now a white supremacist symbol? Because it fucking is.
It is, but not in any sort of useful identifying way. If you see a known very online white supremacist or alt-right figure conspicuously making the OK sign in a posed photo: yeah, that's a callback to the OK=WP chan troll meme. The problem comes when you try to figure out if some rando making an OK gesture is secretly signaling their support for white supremacy since it's widely used by non-nazis.
 

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Has there been any more information on the other suspects who were arrested and what their involvement in this was?

The problem comes when you try to figure out if some rando making an OK gesture is secretly signaling their support for white supremacy since it's widely used by non-nazis.

That was surely the goal of co-opting it.
 

justin haines

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has anyone pinpointed down where this guys life went wrong? School? Parents? Anything that would make someone want to die so he could kill people?

Though usually the commit suicide and this loon didn't? So he was prepared for a life in prison?
 

Hey Please

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it's the same symbol, pointed down. being handcuffed he can't exactly do the upright symbol even if he wanted to, but since he's a chan nazi, safe to say that was the intent.
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It is, but not in any sort of useful identifying way. If you see a known very online white supremacist or alt-right figure conspicuously making the OK sign in a posed photo: yeah, that's a callback to the OK=WP chan troll meme. The problem comes when you try to figure out if some rando making an OK gesture is secretly signaling their support for white supremacy since it's widely used by non-nazis.

Another troubling aspect of co-opting that symbol is that it stands for the alphabet, F in American Sign Language. Honestly, I would rather saw the fingers off of a neo nazi co-opting that than the sign be tainted because disabled folks using that language have enough on their plates already.

Fuck the neo nazi cunts.
 

Kitsunelaine

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It means OK.

As I understand it, the story goes that alt right types decided to own the libs by saying the OK sign was a symbol of white supremacy, thus making said libs look stupid when they got upset whenever they saw someone using it.

They then proceeded to use it in that context to the point that it took off among white supremacists.

Now the OK sign is used by some as an actual symbol of white supremacy. Whatever trolling was inherent in the usage has fallen away.

Alternately, a shorter version:

Alt right types adopt the OK symbol as a symbol of white supremacy and convince the libs they're just joking, which they're really good at doing
 

DrewFu

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it's the same symbol, pointed down. being handcuffed he can't exactly do the upright symbol even if he wanted to, but since he's a chan nazi, safe to say that was the intent.
WhiteHouseWhitePower-e1493566063967.jpg




It is, but not in any sort of useful identifying way. If you see a known very online white supremacist or alt-right figure conspicuously making the OK sign in a posed photo: yeah, that's a callback to the OK=WP chan troll meme. The problem comes when you try to figure out if some rando making an OK gesture is secretly signaling their support for white supremacy since it's widely used by non-nazis.
I'll take your word for it. Either way, it would be a shame to allow them to have it.
 

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Has there been any more information on the other suspects who were arrested and what their involvement in this was?



That was surely the goal of co-opting it.

Right, they intentionally propagate things that most people don't see as having any harm and use them as signals.

That's why the "it's just trolling, memes, edgelording" etc is so harmful. That's exactly what they want you to think. You're buying their shit.
 

Whales

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my mother was watching arabic TV and they were showing footage from the shooting, with next it it footage from PUBG and the dude on the TV saying shit like '' look at how both of these look so similar'' and some other garbage like this.

For fucks sake..
 

Shoot

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The perpetrator's gun license was acquired in late 2017 and their arms obtained legally. This had been planned for years.

There is simply no reason for civilians to have access to semi automatic rifles and pump action shotguns capable of mass murder. I hope I never see them in my country.
I read somewhere that they have been plotting the attack for two years. Two years ago in January, a smaller version of this story played out in Quebec City which the main terrorist has admitted to being inspired by.
 
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I'll take your word for it. Either way, it would be a shame to allow them to have it.
No one is letting them have it. Normal people will still use it to mean ok. Basketball players will still use it to mean three points. And immature people will still use it to mean gotcha. Context matters. Id also wager the vast majority of human beings have no clue that it was Co opted by these fuckheads. Innocence is bliss.
 

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I remember in the original topic for this, someone tried to argue that the above picture was an example of how bad both black and white power symbols were. Swore up and down that the picture was an example of black power iconography. Claimed many students were doing "black power fists."

Some idiots see exactly what they want to see and nothing else.
 

Skux

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Trying to get caught up on this. Has there been any news about the other 3 in custody? Or has that changed?

4 people were taken into custody yesterday.

3 remain in custody including the main shooter.

The 4th was released as having no connection - he seemed to be an armed person aiming to aid police. The other two are being held and investigated to see if they have any direct links to the attack.
 

KarmaCow

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I'll take your word for it. Either way, it would be a shame to allow them to have it.

You don't need to, it's pretty easy to suss out when they do it when hanging out with other nazi shitheads, are doing nazi shithead things, or are famous for being a nazi shithead themselves.

It's like a kid using pig latin to disguise what they want to say as if impossible to parse.
 

Treestump

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4 people were taken into custody yesterday.

3 remain in custody including the main shooter.

The 4th was released as having no connection - he seemed to be an armed person aiming to aid police. The other two are being held and investigated to see if they have any direct links to the attack.
Thank you. I saw 4 in custody was still in the title and OP but nothing else since. There's quite a bit to go through here.
 

cameron

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Ryan Mac @RMac18

Reddit banned two controversial groups that shared imagery of violent death and gore on Friday after users kept sharing videos of the Christchurch shooting. Critics had no idea why the groups were ever allowed in the first place. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/reddit-bans-groups-death-gore-new-zealand-massacre-video …

7:13 PM - Mar 15, 2019


Jon Passantino @passantino

Murdoch's Sky News Australia has been taken off the air in New Zealand after it broadcast the mosque shooter's disturbing video of the attack

7:14 PM - Mar 15, 2019
 

Sean

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49 people were slaughtered and people still can't fucking take Nazi dogwhistles, "memes", and other shit seriously.

When will you start taking this trash seriously? Yeah, they throw symbols. No, it's not just some joke.
 

effingvic

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Fucking Reddit being reactive instead of proactive. Bunch of shit heads. Why the fuck were those allowed in the first place?
 

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Ryan Mac @RMac18

Reddit banned two controversial groups that shared imagery of violent death and gore on Friday after users kept sharing videos of the Christchurch shooting. Critics had no idea why the groups were ever allowed in the first place. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/reddit-bans-groups-death-gore-new-zealand-massacre-video …

7:13 PM - Mar 15, 2019


Jon Passantino @passantino

Murdoch's Sky News Australia has been taken off the air in New Zealand after it broadcast the mosque shooter's disturbing video of the attack

7:14 PM - Mar 15, 2019

A fucking news network showed footage of the shooting on goddamn TV? Holy shit what fucking morons.
 

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On Thursday night, a Reddit spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that /r/watchpeopledie, where links led to videos of people being executed or hit by cars, was allowed on the site because it provided a service to members — some of whom the company said were medical professionals or first responders — to learn about or cope with death.

Oh yeah, that's why people went to r/watchpeopledie. As an educational experience.

C'mon, reddit.
 

Osa15

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Can we extradite this guy to the United States and put him in a prison that will rough him up? I doubt New Zealand prison system are that rough.