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Translingual

👌 U+1F44C, 👌 OK HAND SIGN ← 👋 [U+1F44B] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 👍 → [U+1F44D]

Etymology

A representation of the common hand gesture.

Use to signal support for white supremacy began among users of the imageboard 4chan, due to the widely-known innocuous sense, as part of a trolling campaign designed to provoke media backlash and thereby enable the ridicule of anyone pointing out its racial meaning.[1] The gesture and symbol came to be genuinely used by white supremacists.[2][3]

Symbol

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1. okay
2. excellent, awesome, nice
3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (alt-right, white supremacy) A dog whistle for or reference to white supremacy.
   • 2019 May 23, Alexander Ferrer (@Aleksandrferrer), Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2022-06-12:

     You are not alone , if you are a white person pro , congragulations . Exist people with the eyen open that have the hope of make the white people great again!.👌👌👌
     #OkGesture #WhitePride #WhiteGenocide#WhitePro #WhiteProblem #WhiteGuilt #WhitePower#BlackPower

   • 2020 March 27, Rocky John (@rockyjohn012), Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2022-06-12:

     Its not racist to love your people.. Stop white genocide... White race has the right to self determination...👌 Protect your race, just like HE wanted to.. you know who I am talking about🇩🇪

   • 2020 July 2, Liverbird # (@jjcwow), Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2020-07-02:

     How absolutely stupid and childish, this is out of hand!!🇬🇧👌🇬🇧
     🇬🇧👌WHITE LIVES MATTER👌🇬🇧

   • 2021 November 11, hey_joeb (@Hey_joeb), Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2021-11-11:

     Rittenhouse doesn’t need a lawyer .
     He has a Judge? 👌

   • 2021 December 6, *GMQ* SUSAN (@ifudontlike2bad), Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2021-12-07:

     "I'm dreaming of a white power Christmas..." ❄👌❄👌❄

   • 2022 May 3, VIX (@VIX38083085), Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2021-05-03:

     👌⊕White Power⊕😁

   • 2022 May 4, 🧂Salt Shaker 🇺🇸 (@a_salt_weapon), Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2022-05-04:

     White Power👌

   • 2022 June 11, 👌 (@NYC1488), Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2022-06-11:

     Hitler was right

Usage notes

• (white supremacist dog whistle): Because use in reference to white supremacy was originally nominally trolling, this origin is often used to discredit reports of it being used for this purpose. However, the gesture and symbol are also actually used by white supremacists.[2][3]

Using this emoji with skin type modifiers 🏻, 🏼, 🏽, 🏾, 🏿 will result in the following:

Fitzpatrick skin types

–	1-2	3	4	5	6
👌	👌🏻	👌🏼	👌🏽	👌🏾	👌🏿

References

1. “INTRODUCING: OPERATION O-KKK”, in archive.4plebs‎, 2017-02-27, archived from the original on 2018-11-16
2. David Neiwert (2018-09-19), “Is that an OK sign? A white power symbol? Or just a right-wing troll?”, in Southern Poverty Law Center‎, archived from the original on 2022-06-12
3. Anti-Defamation League (2019), “Okay Hand Gesture”, in ADL‎, archived from the original on 2022-06-12