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Re:Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings by llamaimperative on Friday June 07, 2024 @10:26AM (#40609070)
Except by the Christchurch shooter in court: https://nypost.com/2019/03/15/suspected-new-zealand-shooter-...

And on Jan 6: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/far-r...

And the Proud Boys: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/roger-stone-proud-boys/

Yes it started as "a joke" to troll the libs. And then became and has been used as intended.

Re:Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings by DontchaKnowit on Friday June 07, 2024 @03:50PM (#40612251)
Far right != white power movement or white nationalism.

Proud boys != white power group or white nationalist group.

Re:Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings by llamaimperative on Friday June 07, 2024 @04:13PM (#40612500)
Your claim was some mishmash of "only kids do it" and "no one does it in the real world" and "only trolls do it"

So I'm not sure what you think you're correcting here.

Re:Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings by DontchaKnowit on Monday June 10, 2024 @08:50AM (#40633045)
My claim was it is not a symbol of white power. And the article you linked provided 0 evidence to support the claim that it is associated with white power. It did associate it with the 3 percenters, who do not seem to be a white supremecist group.

Instead you seem to be claiming that right-wingers use the symbol, ergo it is racist or white power affiliated. That claim is false. Just because someone is a republican, doesnt make them a racist.

Re:Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings by llamaimperative on Monday June 10, 2024 @05:52PM (#40639600)
Wait but I thought the whole joke of making that hand sign was to trick people into thinking you're a racist? Doesn't the entire premise of the "joke" rest on the assumption that people do in fact associate that hand sign with racists?