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In this challenge, you need to take a symbol that is well-known in the modern world (e.g. the rainbow for the LGBTQ+, the Star of David for Jews) and have it be corrupted in the same manner the Nazis ruined the swastika.
There is a right wing nut that wants to make the "#" (hash-tag) symbol a fascist one for his own personal group of racists in the US.
There is a right wing nut that wants to make the "#" (hash-tag) symbol a fascist one for his own personal group of racists in the US.
Unless America puts a fucker like that in charge and he commits some atrocity anywhere close to the Holocaust, there’s no way any symbol will become as taboo as the swastika, which is so unacceptable that even my iPhone’s autofill doesn’t know it. (Of course, it didn’t know the name of the District of Columbia’s NFL team either, so maybe it’s a bit more sensitive than any of us would like, and that’s neither here nor there.)
In any case, you need to associate a symbol so strongly with an unspeakable atrocity that it completely overrides any other association to being a mere footnote in order to accomplish this. The red star is close but still not quite there. If all you saw when you saw a red star was the systematic murder of Koreans based on ideology, it would be this. Bonus points if it meant something else before.
Apparently there is now a perception that the "Ok" gesture has got something to do with White Supremacy!?
It seems to have started out as a 4chan hoax, that for some reason people have started taking seriously. To the extent that some extremists have tried to claim it, much to the bewilderment of the rest of us.
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/okay-hand-gesture
It gets even sillier when you consider that it has a number of legitimate uses in Scuba Diving, Sign-Language and Medical Testing.
Apparently there is now a perception that the "Ok" gesture has got something to do with White Supremacy!?
It seems to have started out as a 4chan hoax, that for some reason people have started taking seriously. To the extent that some extremists have tried to claim it, much to the bewilderment of the rest of us.
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/okay-hand-gesture
It gets even sillier when you consider that it has a number of legitimate uses in Scuba Diving, Sign-Language and Medical Testing.
I think it's also used in skydiving
Apparently there is now a perception that the "Ok" gesture has got something to do with White Supremacy!?
It seems to have started out as a 4chan hoax, that for some reason people have started taking seriously. To the extent that some extremists have tried to claim it, much to the bewilderment of the rest of us.
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/okay-hand-gesture
It gets even sillier when you consider that it has a number of legitimate uses in Scuba Diving, Sign-Language and Medical Testing.
I'd add to that the hammer and sickle. It's not taboo like the swastika, and Stalin racked up quite the body count.
That's far from a modern phenomenon, even the Bible pointed out how easy evil/stupid can corrupt good.It is the one I thought of immediately. It happens all the time with words and it is just going to get worse. It is the speed of it that is getting scary.
Speaking of people rather than symbols, once most notable people could expect to be pilloried after they died. More recently the heroes of our youth are getting pilloried in their old age. I recently saw man who would have copped ethnic slurs in his youth, came to fame on a subversive comedy program, works for a public broadcaster, get chewed out by a younger lady for being too establishment and not understanding what it is to be a minority in his middle age. I didn't feel bad for the man, but for the lady. In 20 years time she will be the establishment. Who is going to chew her out? It is all so fast and there are so many places a person can get caught out. Maybe I am getting old?
But yeah. Corrupting a symbol is too easy these days. Get it associated with some idiots. Make a fuss. Someone on the other side will pick it up and run with it because people are stupid. Media takes it further, a negative spiral will start up and that is the end. What used to take world war now takes 20 minutes on the internet.![]()
If that's what it takes to get people to stop saying "hash tag" out loud, then so be it.There is a right wing nut that wants to make the "#" (hash-tag) symbol a fascist one for his own personal group of racists in the US.