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Re:8chan served with search warrant [pdf] by krapp on Saturday June 15, 2019 @08:14AM (#20189647)
>This quickly becomes insane, like with the 'OK' handsign, including the decades old 'circle game', neither of which has any connection to racism other than what desperate mainstream media portrays in search of clicks.

Those are also all minor blips on the cultural radar no one will care about in a few months time. What matters are the symbols with any cultural weight or staying power.

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Re:8chan served with search warrant [pdf] by BurningCycles on Saturday June 15, 2019 @09:56AM (#20190037)
>no one will care about in a few months time.

Because it will have been replaced with another symbol that is now suddenly being portrayed as racist due to click-bait fueled hysteria. Enough already.

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Re:8chan served with search warrant [pdf] by threwawasy1228 on Saturday June 15, 2019 @10:00AM (#20190052)
In the world we live in, I don't know that I would make snap calls about what symbols will last more than a few months and which won't. In our current memetic climate things may appear to move faster, but getting to the top (news outlets reporting a meme) has a lot of staying power and reverberation that people should not take for granted.
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