# "Okay" sign NOT? High School Year book pulled

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-sign-not-high-school-year-book-pulled/834117
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 17, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-sign-not-high-school-year-book-pulled/834117 "2019-05-17T14:50:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-sign-not-high-school-year-book-pulled/834117/181 "2019-05-26T22:26:41Z")

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> [@Dinsdale](#):
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> A guy who often plays fiddle at the market (and whose opinion I generally respect) addresses this issue in his [newspaper column](https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/eric-zorn/ct-perspec-zorn-highland-oak-park-yearbook-controversies-big-lie-racism-20190524-story.html) this morning.

…“a misguided spasm of oversensitivity” sounds like a sentence the “guy who plays fiddle at the market” would say.

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### Author: ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-sign-not-high-school-year-book-pulled/834117/182 "2019-09-26T15:12:58Z")

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An update: [The Anti-Defamation League now considers the “OK” hand symbol to be racist.](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/09/26/us/adl-new-hate-symbols/index.html?fbclid=IwAR21CI9810eGXmNxdFhEqefDqR0njW578Nv0esH6ej54c0-bnFC0suv_5YE)

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