{"id":8721,"date":"2019-09-27T01:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T01:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2019-09-27T01:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T01:42:59","slug":"numerous-common-terms-are-now-symbols-of-hate-turning-everyone-in-to-accidental-white-supremacists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/09\/27\/numerous-common-terms-are-now-symbols-of-hate-turning-everyone-in-to-accidental-white-supremacists\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerous common terms are now symbols of hate turning everyone in to accidental &#8220;white supremacists&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life is now a minefield of symbology. The Anti-Defamation League has identified the following common symbols as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/hate-symbols\">hate symbols<\/a>&#8220;. Shockingly, many of the symbols are in common, every day use.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>100%<\/li>\n<li>109<\/li>\n<li>12<\/li>\n<li>13<\/li>\n<li>14<\/li>\n<li>18<\/li>\n<li>28<\/li>\n<li>311<\/li>\n<li>318<\/li>\n<li>38<\/li>\n<li>43<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;5 words&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>511<\/li>\n<li>737 (Who knew that Boeing is white supremacist organization?)<\/li>\n<li>83<\/li>\n<li>88 (The telegraphic abbreviation for &#8220;love and kisses&#8221; is now a hate symbol)<\/li>\n<li>9%<\/li>\n<li>The Confederate Flag (while used by non extremists as a symbol of southern heritage and history, it is now defined as a white supremacist symbol)<\/li>\n<li>HSN (formerly known as Home Shopping Network, is now a racist gang symbol)<\/li>\n<li>The mathematical &#8220;not equal&#8221; symbol consisting of an equals sign with a slanted line through it is now a white supremacist symbol. As a computer scientist who was one class shy of a double degree in mathematics, this means writing math terms marks computer scientists and mathematicians as white supremacists.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Okay&#8221; hand gesture<\/li>\n<li>Pit bull<\/li>\n<li>ROA, previously known in finance as &#8220;return on assets&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Thor&#8217;s Hammer (yes, Avengers is a white supremacist movie)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There we have it &#8211; everyone is now an accidental white supremacist.<\/p>\n<p>This movement to term common terminology as hate symbols was made possible by social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous common terms, even commonly used numbers, are now considered symbols of hate, per the newly updated official list of hate symbols from the ADL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721","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=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}