The "Hate Symbols Database" expands to include "OK" hand gesture and "Bowlcut" hairstyle...

[Nirvana]

The OK sign also means "a$$hole" in Brazil and a few other places.

DW

It doesn’t. The OK sign means OK in Brazil as well.

There is, however, a very similar sign meaning something like F...U...

If you start with an OK sign, turn your hand 180°, with your pinky towards your body and the ring made with your thumb towards the person you are doing the sign. Usually done with the hand about chest level.

 

[NAM001]

Im going tohave a problem in fine resteraunts. I do the OK thing with both hands when you look at the left you see teh letter b on the right you see the letter d, the b and d are the letters to remind you which side you bread goes on and which side the drink goes on. knowing that insures you dont grab your neighbors glass.

 

[happy-diver]

I might grab Aldo Raine if he's still alive to carve a couple of swastikas in my forehead and go backpacking in Israel

 

[M-Cameron]

What’s even funnier is the “ok” sign is not even an actual white supremacist gesture..... no white supremacist groups actually use that gesture


it was started as a meme on 4chan
to take every day things and falsely attribute them to hate groups just to rile people up.

How the “OK” Symbol Became a Popular Trolling Gesture

 

[RCB1882]

Appears that this usage continues to (d)evolve...

When the O.K. Sign Is No Longer O.K.

 

[kelemvor]

Nonsense. The existence of such a database is extremely divisive. Time should be ashamed.

 

[Kimela]

Well, I'm not going to give the New York Times my info or my $$ to read the story. I agree with @kelemvor. The whole idea is ridiculous - but it's also how social construction of reality happens. If you want to see social construction of reality in action just watch the 1982 Moon Unit Zappa song "Valley Girl" - you'll see where the word "like" became the PITA it is today!!! Prior to then (as far as I, like, know), we used the word to mean "similar to" - now it's a place holder while we think or pause or 'whatever' it is we use it for (and yes, I do it too, grrrr). My point is, once someone has begun to use a signal, phrase or word in a new way, the meaning of it changes too. I strongly dislike the reality of it and I will fight to use the 'ok' sign to mean 'ok'. But it may be one of those 'it is what it is' things in the end.

 

[Bigbella]

Years ago, my college ex had been traveling through Europe, with about three shirts to her name -- one being the familiar "shaka" symbol from a surf shop in Hawai'i. She mentioned that she had been treated rudely in Italy and I asked whether she had been wearing that shirt, at any time, which resembled a gesture that your partner is sleeping around; that you're a cuckold.

Obviously, we'll have to substitute a few gestures, within the diving community, so as not to offend delicate sensibilities; and I, for one, nominate the far le fiche or mano in fico, though it's not as visible from a distance as some others which immediately spring to mind . . .

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar . . ."

-- Sigmund Freud (apocryphal)

 

[Steve_C]

It doesn’t. The OK sign means OK in Brazil as well.

There is, however, a very similar sign meaning something like F...U...

If you start with an OK sign, turn your hand 180°, with your pinky towards your body and the ring made with your thumb towards the person you are doing the sign. Usually done with the hand about chest level.

Finally I learned something useful in this thread