Racist VW ad pulled.

Started by Surtur4 pages
Originally posted by dadudemon
More likely trolling. But it's the kind of trolling that might get you beaten to death or killed.

I didn't say the guy was smart. I mean...he *was* at a cubs game.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
it is a widely used neo-nazi gesture. the fact that it is relatively new does not negate the fact. top notch gaslighting, tho 👆

So since u said context should be considered, I assume if there is just a random photo of a white guy and in it he is giving the okay sign...surely *that* would be a situation where it is insane to assume racist intent right?

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Exactly

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/16/how-okay-hand-sign-keeps-tricking-us-into-looking/

Kind of wish they didn't have John Constantine say "Ciggy".

All the murder, death, people being shot in the head, dismembered, but lets not offend people with a British word for cigarette that Constantine would totally use.

Originally posted by cdtm
Kind of wish they didn't have John Constantine say "Ciggy".

All the murder, death, people being shot in the head, dismembered, but lets not offend people with a British word for cigarette that Constantine would totally use.

Hell Supernatural had the demon Crowley say "fancy a *** and a chat?" in an episode.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
it is a widely used neo-nazi gesture.

Odd. The Neo-Nazis might want to know that fact so they can start widelly using it because they aren't, now.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
the fact that it is relatively new does not negate the fact. top notch gaslighting, tho 👆

When you mention gaslighting, it really means this

PVS' definition of gaslighting = stuff someone else says that I don't like

more top-notch gaslighting, ddm 👆

Where I grew up, in high school and whatnot, the ok sign meant something different. You would flash in below your waistline and try to make your friends look at it and if they did, you punched them in the shoulder. If they were quick enough to slip their finger in and out of the hole, they got to punch you.

Anyone else play this? 😂

Originally posted by Trocity
Where I grew up, in high school and whatnot, the ok sign meant something different. You would flash in below your waistline and try to make your friends look at it and if they did, you punched them in the shoulder. If they were quick enough to slip their finger in and out of the hole, they got to punch you.

Anyone else play this? 😂

yes, it's even done in the uk. 😂

Originally posted by Trocity
Where I grew up, in high school and whatnot, the ok sign meant something different. You would flash in below your waistline and try to make your friends look at it and if they did, you punched them in the shoulder. If they were quick enough to slip their finger in and out of the hole, they got to punch you.

Anyone else play this? 😂

Yep. That's pretty obviously what that one Cubs fan was doing considering it's upside down and everything.

Originally posted by Trocity
Where I grew up, in high school and whatnot, the ok sign meant something different. You would flash in below your waistline and try to make your friends look at it and if they did, you punched them in the shoulder. If they were quick enough to slip their finger in and out of the hole, they got to punch you.

Anyone else play this? 😂

20 years later, my arm still twitches with remembered pain reading this

Originally posted by Surtur
Yeah, you guys got duped by 4chan. Best to stop digging the hole now 👆

YouTube video

Yep, you guys got duped.

Originally posted by Surtur
Yep, you guys got duped.

Originally posted by Bashar Teg

"I think your gaslighting attempt was A-Okay!"
-obvious uniformed neo-nazi, carrying obvious neo-nazi flag, obviously fascism-signing

Originally posted by Surtur
Could be or it could be trolling. But let us not pretend people only cry racism when the sign is flashed in the vicinity of a black guy.

Pretending to be a racist for the purposes of trolling is functionally no different than being one.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Pretending to be a racist for the purposes of trolling is functionally no different than being one.

He used a symbol only crazed SJWs would get butt mad over and it worked. Nothing racist about it. Only question is why people repeatedly fall for it.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Pretending to be a racist for the purposes of trolling is functionally no different than being one.
👆 Bingo!

Originally posted by Surtur
He used a symbol only crazed SJWs would get butt mad over and it worked. Nothing racist about it. Only question is why people repeatedly fall for it.

And why does that happen? Because actual Nazis use it that way:

Originally posted by Bashar Teg
it's all just a figment in your paranoid imagination. Sure white supremacists use it as well, but they only use it as a way of saying "I'm OK with being a neo-nazi"

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Things can be appropriated Bada, when I was a boy Gay meant carefree.
Show these heathens who appropriated the "ok" symbol. Me, you and Rob will deal out Gen X justice! sneer

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
And why does that happen? Because actual Nazis use it that way:

So call it racist when a Nazi uses it.

Originally posted by Surtur
So call it racist when a Nazi uses it.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Pretending to be a racist for the purposes of trolling is functionally no different than being one.