Actor Stephen Fry Accused of White Supremacy for Making OK Gesture
Last week the Chicago Cubs banned a fan for playing the Circle Game, claiming he was actually being a white supremacist. They fell for the hoax that the OK gesture is actually something bad. And NBC News even blurred out the guy's hand so the infection wouldn't spread, or maybe so the audience couldn't see that it was just an OK sign.
Now the idiocy has crossed the pond. The other day Stephen Fry, the actor, writer, and Most British Person Ever, tweeted this:
Are you A.O.K? Our friends @aok.kitchen are supporting @MindCharity this Mental Health Awareness Week, 13th - 19th May. Follow them to find out more. 👌#mentalhealthawarenessweek#MHAW19
Innocent enough, yeah? He's just trying to be a good guy, right?
Wrong! Emma Kelly, Metro (UK):
...While Stephen was just trying to raise awareness and drum up support by sharing the universally recognisable OK symbol, others piped up to claim it was a sign of the alt-right.
One person wrote: ‘Stephen and friends – You might want to be super careful using this symbol if you don’t want to be confused with white supremacist creeps. It’s an unfortunate fact of life that even the kindest of intentions can be taken out of context.’
Another replied: ‘Are you aware that this hand symbol can be misinterpreted as support for white supremacy'?
For his part, Fry has given the correct and only response to such foolishness:
PS: I really will not allow the simple 👌 gesture to belong to the moronic dogwhistling catfishing foghorning frogmarching pigsticking dickwaving few who attempt to appropriate it for their own fatuous fantasies. T
Exactly. Racists don't own that gesture. Some pranksters decided to associate a harmless hand sign with racism to prove how gullible some people are, and some people proved them right.
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4 comments:
We need more like Stephen Fry to publicly stand up to "the moronic dogwhistling catfishing foghorning frogmarching pigsticking dickwaving few." Maybe if enough did they'd think twice before crying offense at every opportunity.
You know, one of these days one of these snowflakes is going to declare saying "Hi" while waving your hand is a sign of white male Christian heterosexual oppression. And when one of them does so I'm going to stand in front of them saying "Hi" and waving my hand, over and over again smiling the whole time.
Just like the homosexuals who took over the word gay which meant happy and sprightly.
A better word for homosexuals is morose.
That's not even the Circle Game, that's an okay sign. Geez, have the white supremacists cooped every hand signal???
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