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<p>type: post
title: An apology
date: 2020-01-23
nolist: true</p>
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<p>I learned a lot of things in very quick succession last night, and would like to apologize.</p>
<p>While at FC2020, a group of trans folks gathered around Sonic Fox to take a picture, and since I was feeling cheeky, I decided to play that dumb <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/circle-game/">Circle Game</a>, where you make a ring with your index finger and thumb and show it subtly so what, when people notice it, you can say &ldquo;got &lsquo;em&rdquo; (and sock them in the shoulder, depending whether or not you&rsquo;re still in middle school).</p>
<p>It was brought to my attention that making that hand-shape &mdash; the &lsquo;Okay Hand&rsquo; &mdash; is something that <a href="https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/okay-hand-gesture">4chan recently co-opted to be a symbol for &lsquo;white power&rsquo;</a>. You can imagine my growing horror at learning this. I was absolutely humiliated.</p>
<p>I am sorry.</p>
<p>This is something I did not know, and now that I do, will never, ever do again. I carry no sympathy for racists, and to use one of their symbols, however accidentally, is unacceptable. I have made a donation to the <a href="https://twocc.us">Trans Women of Color Collective</a> as a part of my apology.</p>
<p>I will continue to do my best to help stamp out racism and all forms of bigotry as I work to become a better person.</p>
<p><img alt="Donation screenshot" src="/assets/twocc-donation.jpg" /></p>
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