Sometimes this kind of stuff legitimately scares me.
Like, these guys could find themselves in serious trouble over what is basically conflicting opinions on that gesture.
The "made you look now you get two punches" has been around for AT LEAST 20 years.
Shit, we organize a "12 pubs of Christmas" pub crawl every year and every year we end up coming up with more and more elaborate ways to do this.
Basically though if you do not keep up to speed with all this internet bullshit you can end up in big trouble over a hand gesture that only two years ago would have been fine and quite widespread.
I wonder what is the quickest "incubation time" for stuff like this?
As in how quickly can a widespread and harmless thing become a symbol of the alt right?
What happens to people who just didn't know?
Indeed & agreed. Reminds me of how (many moons back), in junior high-school, there was a strange sudden push by peers and those older, to stop using
because supposedly in Oriental-Asian countries, if used wrongly it could be swearing at somebody.
Ironically, I'm half Oriental-Asian, had been over there several times to visit family which is all over the place out there, and never really heard of that.
Then now in modern days it's suddenly trendy again to do said gesture to be hip.
Sometimes think there's a push to wall away certain styles/gestures/cultures/personalities into off limits territory as a means to call dibs in saving it for those whom they favor more.
Kind of like how when I was a kid, I was constantly picked on for wearing glasses, for being brainy/smart, and for being a nerd/geek -- fairly badly too. So badly, in fact, that at age of 12, I studied any martial arts I could get my hands on while body/power-building to bulk myself out. When I started I was a skinny soaking wet 86 pounds, to where I was right around 225 in high school with 7-10% body fat.
Then go figure when next "assault" were totally false accusations towards me of "obviously using steroids", when I've never touched 'em in my life, to now where so many, even flaky dumb peeps, where fake costume glasses and "geek wear" while all pretending to be "Straight Outta' Mensa (Compton)" and now trying to suggest the "big, badass, and strong", are bullies and thugs -- even though a decade or so ago we were told that we can't use "thug" because (while the shifted goalposts served an agenda) it was supposedly racist.
PS - But I must always remember that because I'm half-white, I'm a recipient of "whie priviledge", even if my "white" is old-country bar-fighting Irish.
