There's a curiously large connection between 4Chan's audience and the far right if satirical memes are getting co-opted that easily. What an odd demographic they must have; both satire enthusiasts <i>and</i> their targets coexisting in one happy space...
This changes nothing for a lot of people. Divers, as others have mentioned in these comments as well as in construction/manufacturing (which has a large population of non-white people) it's used in situations where you cannot hear. I doubt anyone's going to convince these folks to change years of acceptable practice on the back of a hoax.<p>As for the ADL: feed a bear and they will happily take it. Ten minutes of research and they would have seen it's a troll.
>The OK hand gesture and its link to white nationalism began as a hoax cooked up by users of the website 4chan, who falsely linked it to white supremacy, according to the ADL. It was meant to bait the media or people with liberal ideals to overreact, ADL experts say, and therefore look ridiculous for condemning such an innocuous sign.<p>This perfectly summarizes a frail old media trying to survive against a vibrant uncontrolled new media.