(Fox News) – The Anti-Defamation League has added the “OK” hand gesture, a mass killer’s bowl-style haircut and an anthropomorphic moon wearing sunglasses to its online “Hate on Display” database. The symbols are among 36 new entries in the Jewish civil rights group’s online database of overt symbols of racism and anti-Semitism used by extremists. The New York City-based group launched the database in 2000 to help law enforcement officers, school officials and others recognize signs of extremist activity. It has grown to include nearly 200 entries.
“Even as extremists continue to use symbols that may be years or decades old, they regularly create new symbols, memes and slogans to express their hateful sentiments,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. Some of the new entries started as trolling campaigns or hateful memes on internet message boards such as 4chan, 8chan and Reddit, before migrating to Facebook, Twitter and other mainstream platforms, and to public forums and fliers. READ MORE
