[stnmtn]

When any phrase is used exclusively by alt-right groups as a way to dogwhistle and provoke, it makes sense to label it as something that alt-righters use.

No one is seriously arguing that devoid on the context and who pushes that specific phrasing, that it's "not ok to be white"

You have to intentionally disingenuous to seriously believe that.

[refenestrator]

When that phrase is used to troll people into freaking out at an innocuous phrase, and they do so, that's on them.

[jimbokun]

If you are provoked by something as innocuous as "It's OK to be white" you really need to re-examine your commitment to tribalism and dedication to going out of your way to find things to be offended by on the Internet. (Or attached to telephone poles.)

Which was clearly the goal of this experiment, to show how quickly and vehemently people over react to anything that seems to deviate slightly from their personal ideology, no matter how slight.

[stnmtn]

I think you're dodging my main message. Of course it's ok to be white, I said that very very clearly in my comment I think, right?

The thing is, you have to see who is using and spreading that message. When it's alt-right people, you can assume malicious intent when they use it.

If someone who is not clearly alt-right says it, I wouldn't even think twice as that's literally meaningless, but you have to acknowledge how they are trying to use it as a dogwhistle

[whatshisface]

There is only one reason someone from one of those subreddits would say that line, and it's to get HN arguing about whether or not it should be taken literally, or as in indication that someone from one of those subreddits is in the room.