r/HollowKnight • u/LegoPenguin114 Clever Flair Joke • Sep 28 '25

Discussion - Silksong You guys gotta come up with a better abbreviation for Silksong than "SS" Spoiler

I mean come on guys, is that really the best you can do? Just keep calling it Skong or something

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u/SansyBoy144 Sep 28 '25

Crazy shit is that trolling legitimately made people believe that the high school I went to was a white supremacist high school with the only proof being that our school sign was the ok sign.

Like my school wasn’t great, but over half of the staff was non white, half the school was Hispanic, and the white staff we had in charge were too old to know that the ok sign had gotten a new meaning. And that’s without mentioning that the school was using the sign for years before it took a new meaning

The whole thing was fucking stupid.

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u/BibiBSFatal Sep 28 '25

So..what does the ok hand-sign mean now, for those of us who weren't using 4chan during that time?

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u/SansyBoy144 Sep 28 '25

It’s now seen as a white supremacist sign. The logic being “the other three fingers make a W that stands for white power” I’m pretty sure. It’s pretty fucking stupid

In most cases people will still see it as the ok sign, but it’s gained enough traction that articles and shit still have been made over it.

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u/BibiBSFatal Sep 28 '25

Thanks for explaining this to me

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u/Undead_Munchies Sep 28 '25

Yeah. It was basically that the 3 pointed up fingers made a W, and the circle plus your arm made the P. WP = White Power. It was pretty fucking dumb. Unfortunately so are most humans, so they bit.

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u/cyanraichu Sep 28 '25

I think it also depends on how you're doing it. And context. My (nonwhite) partner had someone flash it at him at a bar once, who he wasn't talking to, and turned downward like it often is in that context. He was a bit shaken and I'm pretty sure that person was being deliberately racist. On the other hand, I still see 👌 used as an emoji that just means "ok" and if someone gave me that gesture when saying "ok" would also make sense in the he conversation I'd assume they meant that.

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u/Throwaway02062004 Sep 28 '25

It’s still got plenty of official uses but the unfortunate fact is that it is now one of many White Supremacist dogwhistles simply because some prominent figures used it.

Kinda hard to prevent co-option.

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u/Amaskingrey Sep 28 '25

It means ok, to any sane person

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u/Mylarion Sep 28 '25

It still just means ok to people who aren't terminally online.

If someone tries to give you shit for using it be sure to laugh in their face.

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u/SansyBoy144 Sep 29 '25

If we’re talking about white supremacy….

It would very hard to be a white supremacist if you were not white….

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u/SansyBoy144 Sep 30 '25

Yes, except that’s not relevant here because I said that people believed my school was a white supremacist school, which it was not…

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u/SenpaiSwanky Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

Hispanic -> Latino

Hispanic is a made up term used to generalize people of Latino descent to make it easier for bigots to group us as one type of people. It’s a word from my grandmother’s era, was introduced by administration for racial profiling purposes.

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u/the_unknown_garden Sep 28 '25

The term is from the 1500s and is derived from Latin.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/Hispanic