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It's important to be clear (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] VanillaFrosty@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

My understanding of the event:

4chan jokes they should pretend the okay hand sign is a white supremacist dog whistle to trigger libs.
They do and it works.
Online shitters who's whole personality is "triggering sjw's" pick up on this and perpetuate the joke to continue to trigger people.

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.