I think 4chan is a shit hole and do not in any way approve of them mocking BLM or the movement.

The reason I share this however is to point out the generally harmful group think of people being activists right now, to the extent it is hurting the movement.

4chan consistently has success in these matters. Right now its Bald for BLM which seems to be catching on, and not that long ago they managed to trick everyone into thinking the OK hand gesture was a white supremacist hand gesture and even managed to get it on a list of hate speech.

When 4chan is this successful at manipulating people simply by making something look popular, when that is the only criteria for success, its time to reevaluate the underlying mentality driving our activism.

@freemo I saw the wikipedia list and it is not for sure all the use cases of okay sign used in this context.It is used daily in this context all over the world. Most of the alt-right people that have some kind of internet influence are using these symbols. It has the same role as swastika or other symbols used in nazi germany. They are just modernizing it. @kino Btw do you know KulturBlog? They are nazi supporting channel from Slovakia. Look at the hat.

youtube.com/watch?v=9LLRHAhEll

@vnarek @freemo Why would I know of a Slovakian Nazi channel? 😂

@kino @freemo They are pretty famous even between non-nazi folks, because of their support for LSNS. It was not an attack on you sorry! 😄

@vnarek @freemo LSNS? I'm not taking attack, it just seemed like a humorously random question.

@kino @freemo Lidová Strana Naše Slovensko. Kotlebovci :D

@vnarek @freemo 🤷‍♂️Google translate, here we go…
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@kino @freemo Wait you are not from the Czech Republic? 😅 sorry

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