Shaun Evans maintains it was an ‘involuntary, subconscious twitch’ that led to an ‘OK’ symbol during the official broadcast of Germany’s opening game against Curaçao on Sunday
i thought there was a chance it was a normal OK gesture, but then I saw the picture
I do really hate at a conceptual level ceding basic portions of speech or communication symbols (i.e. a hand gesture with an already established meaning) to racist dipshits just because they were used by racist dipshits
I was thinking about this a lot a few weeks ago because of the 88 =HH shit, like, how long is that going to stay in our society? If people are still around making usernames in 100 years are people born in 2088 still going to get
looks for an 88 in the username? It just seems really weird and fucked up to me somehow
The chinese century will rehabilitate 88
It will have begun in August 2008 (8/8), when China was hosting the Olympic Games while America was economically melting down.
^.^
I remember having to tell my sibling not to put 88 at the end of their Minecraft username.
Yeah it sucks. Not sure what to do about it when with codes that are actually established. But falling for the bait and doing the Nazis work of handing them more codes is avoidable.
I really resent them taking the OK sign. Years ago my dad told me how the thumbs up is equivalent to giving someone the finger in certain Middle Eastern cultures and that the OK sign is a safer option. To this day I think of it as a minor gesture of cultural sensitivity.
They made one photo op. It was handed to them by the rad libs with more fervor than memes with a genuine Nazi background.