Someone felt attacked personally, criticized it on Twitter and now everything is going downhill...
Edit: relevant wikipedia article [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture#As_a_white_power_sy...
It seems online culture is so plastic that we can quickly see a move from irony/trolling to sincere usage. How is a person not at the fronts of where hateful groups and their opponents meet supposed to navigate a battlefield of memes and conventions that see distinct transitions in cultural symbols (like a phase change almost) from benign to harmful within weeks?
The problem here was that someone said he did it again, which he didn't.
Basically, a symbol for you to look at and the other person saying "Hah, you're an idiot!".
https://twitter.com/tatianatmac/status/1164912554876891137
part of this breakdown: https://dev.to/aryanjnyc/ken-wheeler-and-dan-abramov-deactiv...
I think people with such obsessions, bringing their baggage of politics everywhere should be thrown out of tech communities discussing tech. They can form whatever meta-community they like for that.
I have seen absolutely zero ..."white supremacism" in React community leaders, and the whole idea is too bizarro to begin with.
If someone is both a white supremacist and a React developer (which I find implausible, but ok) that's bad, but it's not like it's any sizable part of React devs, or characterizes the tone of the community, or affects anything or whatever...
It seems that the cancel-cult left has really taken hold, at least in the loud places on social media.