For some crazy reason liberals are convinced that the “OK” hand gesture is a symbol of white supremacy. It is not, but liberals like to err on the side of caution when it comes to potential racism. A School in Illinois just dropped $54,000 reprinting yearbooks because a few students were pictured making the innocuous “OK” gesture. Sure, that money could have went into educating students, but placating hysterical race alarmists is way more important.
Just so we all understand, some idiots on the Interwebz decided to troll liberals by claiming that the “OK” hand gesture is really a symbol of white supremacy. Supposedly the 3 fingers pointing up stand for “W” while the circle created by the forefinger and thumb, combined with the wrist make a “P.” “WP” therefor stand for “white power.” It was a joke that has been debunked by everyone including the JDL, but liberals never got the punchline.
With that in mind, here’s some dumb assess without a sense of humor from WTTW:
At a special meeting Monday evening, the Oak Park and River Forest (OPRF) Board of Education voted to spend nearly $54,000 to reprint the yearbooks, according to a letter from district Superintendent Joylynn Pruitt-Adams to students and parents.
The original yearbook, titled “Tabula,” contained 18 photos of students making an upside-down “OK” gesture with their hands. Pruitt-Adams said that gesture is sometimes tied to a prank known as the “circle game,” but it has also become increasingly associated with white nationalists.
The “circle game” is where a person makes the upside-down “OK” hand gesture and puts it on their body below the waist. If someone else looks at the circle, they get punched. This is clearly what these students were doing in the yearbook if they were making an upside-down “OK.” A regular “OK” is not associated with white nationalists and an upside-down one is even less associated.
“Regardless of intent, there is a real and negative impact. Many students, not only our students of color, experience this gesture as a symbol of White supremacy. Potentially subjecting our students to this trauma is simply not acceptable,” said the Superintendent.
$54,000 is a lot of money to spend just in case some students might potentially be traumatized by something that is nothing.
The Superintendent wasn’t just worried about students of color being traumatized but also about the future of the “white nationalists.”
Pruitt-Adams said the district is on the “leading edge” of addressing this issue, and believes that as the hand gesture becomes more associated with white nationalism, the photos could haved subjected students to “potentially a lifetime of questions or penalty from colleges, employers, etc.,” if published.
I can pull up a picture of any democrat you want making the “OK” sign. Somehow the existence of these pictures didn’t keep them out of office.
Oh, and just in case the school is unsure about whether this is a white power symbol of not, there’s this compelling piece of evidence:
The photos in question were shot in mid-October and involved “students of various races, ethnicities, genders and grades” who participated in various OPRF clubs and teams.
Students of various races and ethnicities making a hand gesture is a pretty good indication that the gesture is not in fact a symbol of white supremacy. That and it’s the “OK” hand gesture, which literally means “okay.”
The proper use of the “OK” gesture is when a school says they are going to drop $54,000 reprinting the yearbook because some students make the “OK” gesture. This is when you throw it up and say “Okay, chief” with the context being “you are a f*cking moron.”
This ridiculous high school is in Illinois, right down the road from Wrigley Field where the Chicago Cubs play. Not long ago the Cubs organization banned a fan for life from the stadium for making an upsidedown “OK” gesture on the TV. Obviously everyone in Illinois has lost their minds.
