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Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v... by dfgjnirf on Thursday September 30, 2021 @08:56PM (#28713228)
4chan /pol/ does this stuff all the time. The OK as white power sign, the Free Bleeding movement as just a few off the top of my head. But then there are antifastonetoss which I'm pretty sure are actually fans of stonetoss using a loophole to avoid getting banned. These people cannot operate in the open and have found other ways to operate.

I can't tell if it fits the Ruby CoC case. I'm just keeping an open mind to the possibility.

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Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v... by taneq on Friday October 01, 2021 @01:38AM (#28714987)
Oh totally, I didn't mean to imply there weren't actors out there doing shady bad-faith false-flag things. There totally are. It's just that sometimes (often?) what they post is indistinguishable from the real thing.
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Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v... by raxxorrax on Friday October 01, 2021 @09:21AM (#28718084)
Best case to make a point on the internet is to argue the opposite and doing that very badly.
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Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v... by rat87 on Friday October 01, 2021 @05:52AM (#28716441)
but white supremacists including those on 4chan /pol/ have used OK as an actual racist sign. That may not be the dominant meaning of the symbol but it is one that exists.
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Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v... by mpweiher on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:52AM (#28717261)
And we let white supremacists hijack our language?
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Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v... by rat87 on Saturday October 02, 2021 @06:32AM (#28727518)
Nazis basically took over the Swastika, a symbol with thousands of years of use, in at least half of the world.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591

I'm not saying we should or that random neo-nazis have that same power to take over it but we should acknowledge that some uses of the symbol are racist

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