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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was a hypothetical. Pick anything you want.

And anyways you proved my point, the "society" pushed back, ad discarded it, rather than allow it to be poisoned.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No, symbols are just hard to change. Once they have a meaning associated to them, you can't take the meaning away. A pride flag is symbol, so ot means something. An ok hand gesture doesn't have much beyond "ok" to it, so it can quickly be taken over and poisoned.

A drop of poison in a glass will kill you, but a drop in an lake won't harm anyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That's fine, detach from the flag and pick something else. It's the act of repulsion I'm clarifying. If a group chooses, a poisoner has no power, they are discarded.

"Ok" meant "ok" for many years. Society allowed it to be poisoned and that is lame.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Some random database was poisoned. Nobody in actual society cares.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's why the ok sign is still "in most contexts is entirely innocuous and harmless", even according to the ADL. Because it had, you know, a meaning associated to it ...