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A translation of an article from the on-line German Apollo News.
Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution declares: OK sign is right-wing extremist
"Number codes, memes, hand signals" - on Thursday, the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution published a new video on X. It warned against "seemingly harmless" symbolism, including the OK sign. Although this is unproblematic in most contexts, it is now also often shown by "right-wing extremists".
The gesture is supposed to mean "white power" and symbolize the superiority of the "white race." "At its core," the gesture is therefore "charged with xenophobia," says the moderator from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The viewers are also told the origin of the "right-wing extremist" gesture. It was invented on the 4chan platform.
In July, the authority also declared the “Pride Month” to be an anti-constitutional movement. It was “anti-democratic and violates our constitution,” they claimed at the time. The “discrimination of queer people,” “nationalism,” and “the rejection of the values of liberal democracies” were “core elements of the Pride Month.” All of these claims are simply put forward – without any evidence (read more here).
In October last year, the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution also warned on X about the cartoon character “Pepe the Frog”. According to an explanatory video, the character, which is used for all kinds of memes, serves as a right-wing extremist code to spread ideology and hate messages ( Apollo News reported).
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