A representation of the common hand gesture. The use to signal support for white supremacy began among users of the imageboard 4chan, due to the widely-known innocuous sense, as part of a trolling campaign designed to provoke media backlash and thereby enable the ridicule of anyone pointing out its racial meaning.[1] The gesture and symbol came to be genuinely used by white supremacists.[2][3]
2019 May 23, Alexander Ferrer (@Aleksandrferrer), Twitter[4] (in English), archived from the original on 2022-06-12:
You are not alone , if you are a white person pro , congragulations . Exist people with the eyen open that have the hope of make the white people great again!.πππ #OkGesture #WhitePride#WhiteGenocide #WhitePro #WhiteProblem #WhiteGuilt#WhitePower#BlackPower
2020 March 27, Rocky John (@rockyjohn012), Twitter[5] (in English), archived from the original on 2022-06-12:
2024 January 15, Commenter Jasminimal, 2:19:26 from the start, in Rechtsextreme auf dem Vormarsch | Arte - Anstieg rechter Gewalt[12] (in German), EX - Rechte Rotlicht Rocker - Philip Schlaffer:
Denen wurde ja sogar erzΓ€hlt, sie sollen aufhΓΆren mit Pornos und π β¦ damit die Typen immer aggressiver werden.
They were even told they should quit porn and hand shandy β¦ so them blokes become ever more aggy
Using this emoji with skin type modifiers π», πΌ, π½, πΎ, πΏ will result in the following:
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(white supremacist dog whistle): Since use in reference to white supremacy was originally nominally trolling, this origin is often used to discredit reports of it being used for this purpose. However, the gesture and symbol are also actually used by white supremacists.[2][3]
^ βINTRODUCING: OPERATION O-KKKβ, in archive.4plebs[1], 2017 February 27, archived from the original on 2018-11-16
β 2.02.1David Neiwert (2018 September 19) βIs that an OK sign? A white power symbol? Or just a right-wing troll?β, in Southern Poverty Law Center[2], archived from the original on 2022-06-12
β 3.03.1Anti-Defamation League (2019) βOkay Hand Gestureβ, in ADL[3], archived from the original on 2022-06-12