"OK" hand sign added to list of hate symbols for white supremacy

Christopher Brito

This article, "OK" hand sign added to list of hate symbols for white supremacy, originally appeared on CBSNews.com

The "OK" hand gesture has been added to an expanding list of hate symbols used by white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League announced dozens of new additions to its database Thursday.

The hand symbol began as a hoax by users of the website 4chan before turning into a popular trolling tactic, according to the Anti-Defamation League. By this year, it had evolved into a gesture embraced "in some circles as a sincere expression of white supremacy," the civil rights group said.

in the New Zealand massacre last March flashed the symbol during his court appearance in March after being arrested for the at mosques in Christchurch.

Among the other new entires is the "bowlcut," which is an image of a bowl-shaped haircut resembling the one worn by Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof. He was convicted of fatally shooting nine African American parishoners in 2015, and has been .

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