Just another glorious day here in Off-Topic
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This makes me happy.Lil devils x said:
As much as I tend to delve into R&P topics, sometimes I just want to take a cold turkey break for my sanity's sake, and having OT and R&P glomped together made that very difficult. XD
I was starting to think they forgot.IceForce said:
Can't say I'm that sad to see 'everything is politics and also you can't say certain words that I think have offensive meanings but also have other legitimate meanings too' leave.
Yeah, I had no idea so many benign words also had additional secret offensive meanings.Drathnoxis said:
We started approaching meta levels, almost to the point where the word dogwhistle became a dogwhistle - a concept I always found absurd that 0.1% of the population could rally behind therefore that word is now banned.SolidState said:
You should hang out in some far-right Discord channels. They've invented a whole new set of dogwhistles with the implied goal to fuck around and make spoken English more difficult. See what they did with the "Okay" symbol and multiply that by a hundred.Abomination said:
PassCM156 said:
This is the kind of trolling I can get behind though. The absurdity of dogwhistles deserve all the scorn it can get, even if I don't agree with the political stance of those doing the trolling.
Tighten the noose your opponents have made for themselves.
Here's my problem with trolling like this. I totally believe the okay symbol was trolling. Then actual White Supremacist saw what you get away with and co-opted it.CM156 said:
So... The trolls were trolled. But since their trolls, it has to be someone else's fault.
I'll just give you a heads up then: New dogwhistles for the coming week will be: Lactose, tennis, aglets, and pancakes. Be warned.Abomination said:PassCM156 said:This is the kind of trolling I can get behind though. The absurdity of dogwhistles deserve all the scorn it can get, even if I don't agree with the political stance of those doing the trolling.
Tighten the noose your opponents have made for themselves.
And? Your point? These people are shitposters first, and will do anything they can think of to get a rise out of people who they don't like.Saelune said:
And doubtless there are plenty of unsavory people who share your opinion on the topic. I don't think I could generalize and make that a statement against you, however.Saelune said:
I've no idea about what that's about, but it's long been a thing in the UK to use the same hand gesture holding the circle of forefinger and thumb against one's forehead to signal to someone that they're a dickhead.CM156 said:
If everything is a Nazi dogwhistle, then everyone is a white supremacist.CM156 said:
The OK symbol was interesting, because it was basically handed to them. If you follow the timeline of events, a couple of far right figures used it in selfies in contexts where it obviously meant "OK", and Media Matters declared it was a dogwhistle to much mockery. The Media Matters article inspired Operation OKKK, which was basically 4chan trying to heavily promote the idea that Media Matters was right because the idea that the OK sign means white supremacy was so fundamentally silly to them that they put it up there with previous social media hoaxes they'd concocted like #FreeBleeding and the less successful #EndFathersDay.CM156 said:
They had another one they launched shortly afterward that didn't stick at all that claimed dabbing was a white supremacist sign, purported to represent doing a Roman salute while averting your eyes from the glory of Hitler or some such. But again, that one didn't spread at all. About a year ago, they also tried thumbs up = 14 (1 thumb above 4 fingers) = the 14 words and the peace sign = only 2 genders (two fingers up and the position of the thumb suggesting a G), neither of which stuck very well (though occasionally you can catch someone who believes the thumbs up one).