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| SS, Cont'd: Media Maroons Go Insane, Interpret Army-Navy Cadets/Mids' 'Circle Game' Goofy Gesture as White Supremacist Signals |
| 2019-12-18 |
| [Reason] This latest social media freakout has prompted a formal military investigation. Young extremists in the Army and Navy? That's one possibility. The more benign explanation—and a far more likely one—is that the cadets were playing a well-known kids' game that has nothing to do with white supremacy. Several cadets could be seen on camera making the "OK" gesture, which quickly drew the ire of progressive activists due to its recent association with white supremacy. (The hand "OK" sign is now considered an extremist symbol by the Anti-Defamation League, though only under certain circumstances.) 4Chan pranked the idiot left and they can't admit it It's important to note that the "OK" symbol's status as a hate symbol is hotly debated. It never became a hate symbol on its own terms, but was the subject of a campaign by far-right trolls to convince everyone that touching the thumb to the index finger formed a "W" and a "P" for "white power." According to The New York Times: It started in early 2017 as a hoax. Some users of 4chan, an anonymous and unrestricted online message board, began what they called "Operation O-KKK," to see if they could trick the wider world — and especially liberals and the mainstream media — into believing that the innocuous gesture was actually a clandestine symbol of white power. Back to the cadets: Having carefully reviewed the video footage in question, it seems pretty likely that their gestures were even less significant—they are probably playing the circle game. What is the circle game? you ask. Well, it's pretty simple: You make a circle gesture with your hand, and if someone else looks at the circle, you get to punch that person. |
| Posted by:Lex |
| #7 So does that mean that the letter "F" and the number "9" is banned from American sign language? |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-12-18 18:39 |
| #6 ^Well, as long as it doesn't have to be Lena Dunham. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-12-18 13:25 |
| #5 ^ = The White Phallocrat's Cis-gendered Hetero-normative Proto-rapist Military-Fascist Signal to Attack womynx of color |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-18 12:59 |
| #4 So what kind of racist sign is it when you curl all your fingers except the middle one - which is extended at the angle of 90% degrees to the palm? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-12-18 12:54 |
| #3 convince everyone that touching the thumb to the index finger formed a "W" and a "P" for "white power." Let's play along. So the midshipman in the photo has his thumb-to-index finger upside down, which transforms the "W" and a "P" (for "white power") into an "M" and a "B," which stand for... ..."MEDIA BITCHES!" or "MORONIC BUFFOONS" or "MEAT BUTTHEADS" or...? |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-18 10:57 |
| #2 ALL OF THE ABOVE, IMO |
| Posted by: ranture 2019-12-18 10:44 |
| #1 Media morons, or lunatics? We report. You decide. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-18 10:43 |