What does okay sign mean

The gesture was in the headlines again after Roger Stone, a longtime political adviser to US president Donald Trump , met with a group of white nationalists known as Proud Boys in Salem, Oregon, in and was photographed displaying it with them. Critics expressed outrage when a former White House aide, Zina Bash, appeared to be flashing the sign as she sat behind Brett Kavanaugh during his televised Senate confirmation hearings for his appointment to the Supreme Court.

Defenders of Ms Bash insisted that she had not intended any racist connotation and was merely signalling OK to someone. Some people who have used the gesture publicly in a way that seemed to suggest support for racist views have faced consequences.

Later that year, four police officers in Jasper, Alabama, were suspended after a photo was published showing them flashing the sign below the waist. As a result, someone who uses the symbol cannot be assumed to be using the symbol in either a trolling or, especially, white supremacist context unless other contextual evidence exists to support the contention. Another is the hand sign of the Three Percenter movement, a wing of the anti-government extremist militia movement. Skip Navigation.

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If the person making the sign is a known white supremacist, then one may assume. If the person making the sign has hate symbols on their clothes, or tattoos or jewelry, perhaps one can make an assumption.

In , Pitcavage came to the defense of Republican operative Zina Bash, who appeared to make the OK sign while sitting behind Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Twitter nschoenberg. Skip to content. AP and Getty photos. They operate mainly online and use coded language and memes that might seem innocuous, but if you drill down into them they have meaning. The Anti-Defamation League is very keen to stress that more often that not, the symbol means everything is OK. Listen to Newsbeat live at and weekdays - or listen back here.

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