{"id":3830,"date":"2017-11-16T19:53:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T19:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialcoldstreams.wordpress.com\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2017-11-16T19:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T19:53:19","slug":"no-the-ok-gesture-is-not-a-hate-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/11\/16\/no-the-ok-gesture-is-not-a-hate-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"No, the &#8220;OK&#8221; Gesture Is Not a Hate Symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Has the simple thumb-and-forefinger \u201cOK\u201d hand gesture become a white supremacist hand sign?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/blog\/no-the-ok-gesture-is-not-a-hate-symbol\">No, the &#8220;OK&#8221; Gesture Is Not a Hate Symbol\u00a0<\/a>says the Anti-Defamation League.<\/p>\n<p>Another day, another Internet meme &#8211; this time claiming that people making a popular &#8220;Ok&#8221; symbol with their thumb and index finger are actually expressing a symbol for &#8220;white power&#8221;. This in turn has been used to publicly accuse people who display the &#8220;ok&#8221; symbol as clandestinely flashing a white power symbol.<\/p>\n<p>All thanks to social media propaganda!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has the simple thumb-and-forefinger \u201cOK\u201d hand gesture become a white supremacist hand sign? Source: No, the &#8220;OK&#8221; Gesture Is Not a Hate Symbol\u00a0says the Anti-Defamation League. Another day, another Internet meme &#8211; this time claiming that people making a popular &#8220;Ok&#8221; symbol with their thumb and index finger are actually expressing a symbol for &#8220;white power&#8221;. This in turn has been used to publicly accuse people who display the &#8220;ok&#8221; symbol as clandestinely flashing a white power symbol. All thanks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/11\/16\/no-the-ok-gesture-is-not-a-hate-symbol\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,26,33,39,42,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assertion","category-emotion","category-lies","category-name-calling","category-fake-news","category-social-media","category-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}