breaking news - the "OK" sign is now listed as a racist hate symbol

[bill]

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/76472816 ... ol-of-hate

[BrasSmonkey]

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/76472816 ... ol-of-hate

this is old news! it has been white power for decades! give this a gander https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing ... nd-gesture

[TheButcher]

How can saying everything is okay he a hateful thing?

[BrasSmonkey]

How can saying everything is okay he a hateful thing?

uhh the people being linked to white power! just like gang signs. most people are clueless to it. that's why they were doing it without worry. not knowing the fbi was watching them

[TheButcher]

Well call me clueless because I have no idea about gang signs, but taken as "okay" I do not seeing it as a bad thing. How about saying "okay" is that a gang sign as well?

[deviantz]

What if gangs start using "god" we going to ban that word too?

[bill]

uhh the people being linked to white power! just like gang signs. most people are clueless to it. that's why they were doing it without worry. not knowing the fbi was watching them

IT STARTED WITH A JOKE
OK, here's the story. On Saturday, March 23, 1839, the editor of the Boston Morning Post published a humorous article about a satirical organization called the "Anti-Bell Ringing Society " in which he wrote:
The "Chairman of the Committee on Charity Lecture Bells," is one of the deputation, and perhaps if he should return to Boston, via Providence, he of the Journal, and his train-band, would have his "contribution box," et ceteras, o.k.—all correct—and cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward.
It wasn't as strange as it might seem for the author to coin OK as an abbreviation for "all correct." There was a fashion then for playful abbreviations like i.s.b.d (it shall be done), r.t.b.s (remains to be seen), and s.p. (small potatoes). They were the early ancestors of OMG, LOL, and tl;dr. A twist on the trend was to base the abbreviations on alternate spellings or misspellings, so "no go" was k.g. (know go) and "all right" was o.w. (oll write). So it wasn't so surprising for someone come up with o.k. for oll korrect. What is surprising is that it ended up sticking around for so long while the other abbreviations faded away.
THEN IT GOT LUCKY
OK got lucky by hitting the contentious presidential election jackpot. During the 1840 election the "oll korrect" OK merged with Martin van Buren's nickname, Old Kinderhook, when some van Buren supporters formed the O.K. Club. After the club got into a few tussles with Harrison supporters, OK got mixed up with slandering and sloganeering. It meant out of kash, out of karacter, orful katastrophe, orfully confused, all kwarrelling or any other apt phrase a pundit could come up with. It also got mixed up with the popular pastime of making fun of van Buren's predecessor, Andrew Jackson, for his poor spelling. One paper published a half-serious claim that OK originated with Jackson using it as a mark for "all correct" (ole kurrek) on papers he had inspected.
OK was the "misunderestimated," "refudiated," and "binders full of women" of its day, and it may have ended up with the same transitory fate if not for the fact that at the very same time, the telegraph was coming into use, and OK was there, a handy abbreviation, ready to be of service. By the 1870s it had become the standard way for telegraph operators to acknowledge receiving a transmission, and it was well on its way to becoming the greatest American word.
But, as Metcalf says, its ultimate success may have depended on "the almost universal amnesia about the true origins of OK that took place early in the twentieth century. With the source of OK forgotten, each ethnic group and tribe could claim the honor of having ushered it into being from an expression in their native language." By forgetting where OK came from, we made it belong to us all.

[BrasSmonkey]

Well call me clueless because I have no idea about gang signs, but taken as "okay" I do not seeing it as a bad thing. How about saying "okay" is that a gang sign as well?

ok did you know the nazi swastika has different meanings? it can be turned the opposite way different colors. those people that are white power use it when there is no need to say ok. the government knows the difference. white power is a gang now on the domestic terrorist list. i have been blowing up trumps fb to add them to the list.

[bill]

the swastika has been a buddhist symbol for thousands of years

https://www.lionsroar.com/226988-2/

and an American Indian symbol for hundreds of years

https://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/nat ... symbol.htm

[smokinhot]

what ever reduces gang violence and eliminates hate is fine by me.

[BrasSmonkey]

bloods use the ok sign as well