Nazis hasn't coopted the ok sign at all. Only place I've even heard people saying this stupid shit is on here. If I tried to tell someone irl that they couldn't use the ok sign I'd be laughed out of the house.
I'm not sure whether to feel amused or sad that their troll is working.
Nazis hasn't coopted the ok sign at all. Only place I've even heard people saying this stupid shit is on here. If I tried to tell someone irl that they couldn't use the ok sign I'd be laughed out of the house.
There is a very interesting article/documentary about this game, because no one knows its origin and it's known worldwide even before the internet.Yea it was used my middle school in a game based off this. It got really popular a few years ago and I thought died down some after.
Nazis hasn't coopted the ok sign at all. Only place I've even heard people saying this stupid shit is on here. If I tried to tell someone irl that they couldn't use the ok sign I'd be laughed out of the house.
They haven't.
They use it, to be sure, but when you see someone give you the OK hand sign... consider why they're doing it. Did you just ask them a question and the person you're asking cannot respond verbally but instead has used a hand signal to express that they agree? NOT A NAZI
When I saw that kid in the Nazi picture doing it yesterday I assumed he was just doing the "stare at the circle and get punched" game that was popular 15 years ago :x
What? I just showed that in any normal context if someone gives you the OK hand signal... (us calling it the "OK hand signal" is another indication) you wouldn't assume they're a nazi.
How is that "co-opting" anything?
As above. Co-opt means "adopt for own purpose", maybe you were confused on its meaning?
I assumed that they meant "supplanted" rather than the dictionary definition of "co-opted".
Nazi's use the OK hand signal, but nobody is confused when they see the OK hand signal.
Nazi's use the OK hand signal, but nobody is confused when they see the OK hand signal.
No, they meant co-opted... or they would have said supplanted... not sure why you assumed that.
Because the thread is asking if it's still okay to use the OK hand signal.
And you I misused the word co-opt. You clearly didn't understand it's meaning before or you li wouldn't have weitten "they didn't co-opt anything". Lol.
Given the context of the thread, I assumed.
Sorry to disappoint?
Well the person they were responding to when you corrected seems to think that Nazis aren't actually using the symbol and people on this board are just paranoid so the correct definition of co-opt really applies here.
There's no other meaning for the term co-opt though, so no asuption would lead you to say "they didn't co-opt" unless you misunderstood it.
Given the context of the thread, I assumed.
Sorry to disappoint?
It's fine.
Context is everything. Just because cultural things get co-opted by scumlords doesn't mean they get to define its past, present and future.
There's no other meaning for the term co-opt though, so no asuption would lead you to say "they didn't co-opt" unless you misunderstood it.
There are other meanings actually.
As the post above you clearly shows.
Sorry again.
Not in this context. And you've clearly been scrambling to understand it.
But ok.
Fuck no. I will NOT stop using a 100 year old sign because of alt right idiots.