[__exit__]

I don't understand anything at all. It seems some dev used an OK HAND emoji in some slides during some talk, and it was misinterpreted as the White Supremacist symbol or whatever.

Someone felt attacked personally, criticized it on Twitter and now everything is going downhill...

[wnkrshm]

This is the first time I've heard about this emoji being in some way connected to white suppremacy... is this a thing?

Edit: relevant wikipedia article [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture#As_a_white_power_sy...

It seems online culture is so plastic that we can quickly see a move from irony/trolling to sincere usage. How is a person not at the fronts of where hateful groups and their opponents meet supposed to navigate a battlefield of memes and conventions that see distinct transitions in cultural symbols (like a phase change almost) from benign to harmful within weeks?

[coldtea]

Probably referring to this crap:

https://twitter.com/tatianatmac/status/1164912554876891137

part of this breakdown: https://dev.to/aryanjnyc/ken-wheeler-and-dan-abramov-deactiv...

I think people with such obsessions, bringing their baggage of politics everywhere should be thrown out of tech communities discussing tech. They can form whatever meta-community they like for that.

I have seen absolutely zero ..."white supremacism" in React community leaders, and the whole idea is too bizarro to begin with.

If someone is both a white supremacist and a React developer (which I find implausible, but ok) that's bad, but it's not like it's any sizable part of React devs, or characterizes the tone of the community, or affects anything or whatever...

[thatswrong0]

Yeah it’s just a ridiculous situation. I had to unfollow all React related things on Twitter the moment I saw people lambasting Dan Abramov as “selfish” for disabling his Twitter for the sake of his sanity. It’s one thing to promote diversity, it’s another to create massive problems for the innocent over nothing.. especially the innocent that have been nothing _but_ genuinely supportive of your cause.

It seems that the cancel-cult left has really taken hold, at least in the loud places on social media.

[__exit__]

Quite some years ago I think that symbol was used among youngsters so that if you looked at the hand making the OK symbol people would make laugh of you. Not because of some white supremacism ideology, but because of young people's stupid jokes. Politics were not involved as far as I know.

Basically, a symbol for you to look at and the other person saying "Hah, you're an idiot!".

[k__]

Yes it's some plausible deniability crap of the racists.

[k__]

Yes, and he didn't know either and stopped using it after told so.

The problem here was that someone said he did it again, which he didn't.