{"id":195605,"date":"2019-10-01T04:45:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T04:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195605"},"modified":"2019-10-05T06:01:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T06:01:47","slug":"ok-hand-signal-and-bowl-style-haircut-added-to-anti-defamation-leagues-list-of-hate-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195605","title":{"rendered":"‘OK’ Hand Signal and Bowl-Style Haircut Added to Anti-Defamation League’s List of Hate Symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your Destination Now \u2013 Sept 30, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Anti-Defamation League has officially added the popular \u201cOK\u201d hand sign and bowl-style haircuts to its list of hate symbols, according to\u00a0The Hill<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two symbols, along with 34 others, were added to the ADL\u2019s\u00a0online database<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0of hate symbols on Thursday, increasing the list to 214, many of which are not actually symbols of hate in most contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cOK\u201d gesture and bowl cut join innocuous signs such as \u201c100%\u201d (short for \u201c100% white\u201d among some white supremacists) and more well-known examples, such as burning crosses and swastikas.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe law enforcement and the public needs to be fully informed about the meaning of these images, which can serve as a first warning sign to the presence of haters in a community or school,\u201d ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ADL\u2019s rationale for including such entries are somewhat dubious.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bowl cut, according to the ADL, became a hate symbol since it was the hairstyle worn by the white supremacist mass shooter who opened fire at a church in\u00a0Charleston, South Carolina<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cOK\u201d sign supposedly references \u201cwhite power\u201d (the letters \u201cW\u201d and \u201cP\u201d being formed by the fingers) and was included despite the ADL admitting that it\u2019s a significant part of American Sign Language.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUse of the okay symbol in most contexts is entirely innocuous and harmless,\u201d the\u00a0group says<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ADL also acknowledged that the sign only came to prominence as a hate symbol because of an online hoax and the subsequent gullibility of the left, and stressed that caution must be exercised when determining the intent of those who make the sign with their hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, the group said that \u201csomeone who uses the symbol cannot be assumed to be using the symbol in either a trolling or, especially, white supremacist context unless other contextual evidence exists to support the contention.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This word of warning, of course, raises the question as to why it\u2019s included in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t tell if the person using a symbol is a white supremacist, how is that symbol indicative of white supremacy at all?<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, the only hard evidence provided for labeling the \u201cOK\u201d sign a hate symbol was that it was used by the\u00a0Christchurch, New Zealand<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, mosque shooter during his court appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, this in and of itself does not make the \u201cOK\u201d sign a hateful gesture.<\/span><\/p>\n

In that case, there\u2019s no point in identifying and interpreting the symbols he used.<\/span><\/p>\n

We know he was a white supremacist because of what he did and what he explicitly said. Case closed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Allowing the white supremacy movement to co-opt everyday things and turn them into hate symbols is incredibly ridiculous.<\/span><\/p>\n

When will the left realize that they are the ones making these symbols hateful? Extremists, by very definition, are a tiny minority. They have no real influence unless there is a majority that legitimizes their claims.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever there is a new thing stolen by racists and turned into a sign of hatred, we as the non-racist majority should just scoff and move along. That\u2019s exactly what we have to do now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bowl cuts and the \u201cOK\u201d gesture are not hateful. It doesn\u2019t matter what the ADL says, and it certainly doesn\u2019t matter what the white supremacists say.<\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, they are\u00a0gripping the left with fear<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and it\u2019s sad that such a large portion of our country is letting them get away with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, that doesn\u2019t mean white supremacists are not somewhat of a threat, even if that threat is\u00a0overblown<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Their ideology should be countered and defeated, but giving them what they want is not the way to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Anti-Defamation League is rolling over for the bad guys.<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019re in the pocket of their opponents and they don\u2019t even know it<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ADL claims that \u2018OK\u2019 hand sign and bowl-style haircuts are symbols of white supremacy. Seriously<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195609,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195605\/revisions\/195609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}