Dec 16, 2019, 1:56 PM

https://mashable.com/article/ok-hand-gesture-hate-symbol-anti-defamation-league-white-sumpremacy/

'In February 2017, 4chan users started the hoax "Operation O-KKK," a call to spread the sign around the internet and claim it as a symbol of white supremacy. The anonymous 4channer who started it added a graphic demonstrating how the gesture could spell out the letters WP for "white power." The same month, Media Matters for America accused Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft, who made the gesture in a photograph in the White House press briefing room, of using a "hate symbol."'

It was a 4chan troll effort. Now, white nationalists have begun to use it, but the assumption that every single person making the sign now is a white supremacist is basically just giving too much credit to what was a troll effort.

One I witnessed that didn't take off was an attempt to make 'waving with an open hand' a racist symbol. I don't remember all the reasons they were putting together as 'evidence' but I came across the thread nonetheless.