• BakerBagel@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      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.