The OK symbol.

[PA_jen]

I am sorry if this has been talked about before but I need to ask.

When did the ok symbol stop being a positive and became the underground white power symbol?

This all really started bugging me when I found a box of old photographs from the 70s 80s and 90s. In a couple of them my fingers are locked in that symbol while in another band I am holding the first CD I got.
Saw a couple old movies and a documentary from the 80s and again the symbol was shown.

My first reaction was to cringe. But it didn't always mean evil and how do we handle seeing that symbol in old movies, tv shows even pictures.

[Joinfortmill]

1. Really pisses me off that they appropriate long standing positive symbols.

Dumb asses can't even come up with their own symbols.

[TwilightZone]

2. 2017

https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/okay-hand-gesture

[PA_jen]

3. Thank you.

[Effete Snob]

4. It's an asshole in other contexts

Hand gestures are not universal.

[Beartracks]

5. Ah, the 80s.

I don't see evil, I just see Axel.



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