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by rat87 1726 days ago
but white supremacists including those on 4chan /pol/ have used OK as an actual racist sign. That may not be the dominant meaning of the symbol but it is one that exists.
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And we let white supremacists hijack our language?
Nazis basically took over the Swastika, a symbol with thousands of years of use, in at least half of the world.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591

I'm not saying we should or that random neo-nazis have that same power to take over it but we should acknowledge that some uses of the symbol are racist