Nebraska removing mascot’s ‘OK’
hand signal to avoid White supremacy connection
Washington Times,
by
Jacob Calvin Meyer
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/31/2022 12:34:52 PM
The “OK” hand signal is no longer OK at the University of Nebraska.
Nebraska has updated the image of its mascot to avoid a connection with White supremacism. The mascot is now pictured holding up the “No. 1” instead of forming the “OK” signal with his hand. Herbie Husker, a cartoon mascot for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, had shown the “OK” hand sign for almost 50 years, but the university is making the revision after learning the same gesture has developed a connection in recent years to some far-right extremists. The change to Herbie Husker was first reported by the Flatwater Free Press on Friday. “That hand gesture could,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rich323 1/31/2022 12:40:24 PM (No. 1056811)
How about two middle fingers up and put out the word its aimed at Democrats.
12 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
curious1 1/31/2022 12:41:49 PM (No. 1056817)
They need to grow a pair and invest in a spine.
14 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 1/31/2022 12:48:55 PM (No. 1056827)
Pathetic wimps. OP —- post of the day caliber.
9 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
AGGW 1/31/2022 12:54:32 PM (No. 1056835)
Amazing how idiots are allowed to hijack words and symbols and it is tolerated.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Donna M 1/31/2022 12:54:38 PM (No. 1056836)
They'd better change the postal abbreviation of the state (OK) and the Oklahoma City airport (Will Rogers is OKC/KOKC)
6 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/31/2022 1:06:03 PM (No. 1056850)
Times are a'changin, and not for the better.
The woke mob needs to cancel Niger and Nigeria (for obvious reasons). Everyone will take them seriously if they do that.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Luandir 1/31/2022 1:21:37 PM (No. 1056869)
Is there ANY documented incident of the "OK" sign being used in a white supremacist context? I submit that the Left is gaslighting by fixing on some random symbol and screaming "racism!", to keep the culture off balance.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 1/31/2022 1:36:53 PM (No. 1056884)
There is NOTHING at all related to "white supremacists" with the OK symbol and I'll try to start using it more often, just to trigger these lunatic haters.
8 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/31/2022 1:40:54 PM (No. 1056892)
They say that Nebraska is a Republican State, in reality Nebraska has been humming along with a very liberal State Republican Party, that has had no problem nominating liberal Republicans for the Senate and as Congressional Representatives who once they arrive in DC start showing their RINO political colors.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chance_232 1/31/2022 1:59:12 PM (No. 1056911)
Re#7. Everything is racist now. Evidence not required. Just feelz and an accusation is all that's required.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MarkTwain 1/31/2022 2:13:05 PM (No. 1056927)
I'm glad Rodney Dangerfield never lived to see this. All he ever wanted was one of those! (the OK sign)
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MarkTwain 1/31/2022 2:24:56 PM (No. 1056944)
Rodney Dangerfield Gets One of These 👌 (1982)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYnz2-bsJo
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
columba 1/31/2022 2:28:45 PM (No. 1056948)
I am offended by the word DEMOCRAT, as its stem is the word DEMON. I want the democrat politcal party to remove its name from any place on earth where I might see it.............../s
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 1/31/2022 2:28:49 PM (No. 1056949)
Since when is the ok hand gesture a white supremacist sign? I guess the left just made that up, and now it's been repeated by the MSM so often it's become fact. Kind of like blacks are oppressed.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 1/31/2022 2:57:43 PM (No. 1056984)
there are still a couple of these on ebay.. get em quick before
the skool buys em and burns em
2 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 1/31/2022 3:02:29 PM (No. 1056994)
What the hell are you talking about???
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 1/31/2022 3:53:30 PM (No. 1057044)
Now everyone will be using the hand sign even if they didn't used to. LGB
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It started in early 2017 as a hoax. Users of 4chan, an anonymous and unrestricted online message board, began what they called “Operation O-KKK,” to see if they could trick the wider world — and especially, liberals and the mainstream media — into believing that the innocuous gesture was actually a clandestine symbol of white power.
“We must flood Twitter and other social media websites with spam, claiming that the OK hand signal is a symbol of white supremacy,” one of the users posted, going on to suggest that everyone involved creating fake social media accounts “with basic white girl names” to propagate the notion as widely as possible.
Apparently, it's worked according to plan. The Leftists found another hate symbol to flex their wailing and whining complaints over, and enough other people bought in to make it real.
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Of course that mascot is a white supremacist. Just look at him; he's depicted as White. For maximum diversity and inclusion, redo him as a racially ambiguous soyboy, swap out the cob in his pocket for a sex toy, and proudly rebrand the team as the Nebraska Cornholers.