Army–Navy Game

• Herbie’s left hand no longer forms the “OK” symbol.
• How did something as benign and commonplace as the “OK” hand gesture come to assume such sinister undertones?

A new way to hate?

• “Operation O-KKK” encouraged the flooding of social media sites like Twitter with posts proclaiming the familiar gesture to be a symbol of the alt-right.
• But what began as an effort to “troll the libs” quickly took on a life of its own.
• Shortly thereafter, school officials recalled yearbooks in Petaluma, California, and Chicago after discovering pictures of students making the gesture.

Symbolic overreaction

• The employee was fired, even though he claimed to be merely cracking his knuckles.
• And in April 2021, a contestant on “Jeopardy!” held up three fingers when he was introduced in celebration of having won the three previous games.
• Afterward, many Americans were particularly sensitive to racist symbols – and perhaps more prone to interpret ambiguous gestures as white power signs.

Gang signs and moral panic

• A very similar dynamic involving gang signs has played out over the past couple of decades.
• The campaign was changed when state officials discovered that the street and prison gang the Gangster Disciples also used the symbol.
• He was accused of flashing a gang sign because his thumb and two other fingers were outstretched.

Kids, cats and devils?

• They run the gamut, from uneasiness about young children using smartphones to house cats killing wildlife and even to role-playing games fostering demon worship.
• Fears of gangs and hate groups are just the latest manifestation of this phenomenon.

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