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
IDK, this could just be a nothing burger.
The whole calling 👌 a Nazi symbol because of one photo of Nazis using the symbol was kinda counterproductive to begin with.
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 somehowThe 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.
the ok is not a nazi symbol, 4chan nazis may use it for the lolz. i thought we had left that in 2019.
i thought there was a chance it was a normal OK gesture, but then I saw the picture
The “gotcha” or “circle game” sees somebody show an upside-down OK sign below their waist, with anybody seen looking at it punched in the shoulder.
We’re living in weird-ass times, because this is what I immediately thought of, but who fucking knows. Everything is suss now. White supremacist assholes ruin everything. The 4chan folks do seem to be more about holding it up while the circle game is about putting it low and making people look at it. I’d give the guy the benefit of the doubt unless he’s got a history of something.
Did you have the rule where if you stick your finger in the hole before they react, you get to hit them instead?
Yup! But not every group i was in with had that rule. Seems to be a localized thing.
The 4chan folks do seem to be more about holding it up while the circle game is about putting it low
There was at least one time where a fascist mass shooter did it low at his court hearing or whatever it was.
Tarrant
impossible to tell whether he meant it as a WP symbol or just as a joke, which is of course by design in that that’s why the chuds chose that symbol in particular
absolute non story
The image:
My immediate response is to worry that I’m about to be punched for looking
dude is owed arm punches by literally 100s of millions of people, he’s the goat of this game
The excuse is bullshit but the way the guy did is more probable to be just a joke, watch the guy to see if he does any nazi weird shit and let him work.
whats the joke? “4chan kek!”
https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/the-circle-game
This shit is old
If anyone’s seen me posting 👌 it’s because my brother sent me this Chaotic Good Barbarian cartoon and there’s a recurring bit where they’re like “So you KNOW it’s GOOD 👌” and i thought it was funny so it lives in my head now
Look, if someone snapped a pic of me and for some reason I happened to be doing this hand gesture, I could easily make a statement of genuine disavowment of Nazi bullshit. Like, “sorry but it was just kind of a nervous tic. There is nothing more pathetic or inimical than racist ideology.”
I find the video here a bit more suspicious than the photo. Add that into his claim that it was just an “involuntary, subconscious twitch” then that he actually repeated the symbol many times during the match whilst holding a pen and was unaware then.
Does sound a lot like bullshit to me.
