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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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Iirc, wasn't this made a white supremisist symbol specifically after people jokingly or mistakenly called it one?
Like, it was a perfectly okay hand gesture, then some dude on 4chan said it's a racist symbol (Maybe joking maybe not) some people bought into it and real racists started using it as a calling card?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
My understanding of the event:
Basically people getting mad at a joke caused it to become a real thing to some degree. While not a supremacist symbol it was heavily used by them for a time.