I don't know why people refuse to see this. Yes, it has other meaning if used appropriately, but this is absolutely a real hand gesture signaling white power. Denying it at this point gives them even more power, cause they get to claim it's just a game or whatever...

As soon as this happened, these racist assholes where all over Twitter talking about some Gotcha game.SMH🙄

when our POW's were forced to appear in North Vietnamese propaganda video's saying bad things about the U.S. and several of the POW's were flipping the bird with their fingers? Their captors caught on to them and believed what the POW's told them was the "hawaiian good luck sign"....Then, the NorComs learned what it really meant and tortured them endlessly for making fools out of them.......

Link to tweet

She is pretty, smart, rich, well contacted, and a piece of shit. Giggling as she sends out
a racist gang sign to Trump's bigoted base. @ my now later father's funeral in Feb. 2019
one of his colleagues (poli sci) said that he sees Trump's support falling off as more and
more dirt comes out on him but Trump has a solid 25% base that will never leave him
because @ their core they are racists.

I can't believe that the Naval Academy let that shit slide.

as a requirement for Military enlistees? Also the photo of the fascist police officers doing a heil Hitler salute in that one photo? This crap is happening at a terrifying pace.

they have been acquiring from the military...

us in the face each and everyday.

I started pointing this out months before most others even started noticing it.... The people I pointed it out to, all said the same thing: You're imagining things, it doesn't mean that, your starting a liberal conspiracy theory, etc etc etc.....

Go back to trump's public appearances/public speeches....he would emphasize a point he was making with that hand signal. He used it as a dog whistle to his crowd, flagrantly in front of all the people in America.......

in the past we would would have been accused of spreading conspiracy theories.

they have infiltrated, it is all quite terrifying. I am a white woman and do not trust them, not one bit. I can't imagine the fear they strike in any minorities.😔
He is building his own SS at a frightening pace.

@ 90 he died in his bedroom with his wife there .... he had broken his hip a few
months prior to that and after he was confined to bed or his chair his heart problems
kicked in .... the hospice people were wonderful.

Take it as their own and then they always have an out. Just a game, just a joke, just a misunderstanding. Creeps.

seems to only involve WHITE people. Most games are for everyone, aren't they? That vile Roger Stone needs to be in prison - YESTERDAY. He has been on the loose too long.

All the real white power people have their fingers up. The cadets fingers are pointing down.

















Yes, Agnes, its satire. Calm down.

but a game in which if I look at their hand they get to punch me? no, if there is such a game that is not the time or place to play it.

I hope the naval academy imposes the maximum punishment (maybe many hours of guarding the parade ground in the snow) for this really dumb behavior.

I'm also dressed. My horse is in the shop.

"I'm an asshole"

Makes perfect sense.

Waning dying white MALE power.

Except the circle is too big for them.

In my travels to other countries and cultures, I learned to be very careful about making hand gestures.

I know this because I've been to Germany several times and I know Germans who live here in the US. When Germans give the circle-finger sign (the A-OK sign) they are saying "You're an asshole." It's the German equivalent of an American giving someone the finger.

In the US we've used the circle-finger sign to mean A-OK at least since World War 2 and maybe before that. The White Supremacy people have co-opted the sign for their own use, so now the rest of us can't use it any more.

Anybody who uses it NOW is telling the world "I'm an asshole!"

Ok has been around but A-OK is post WW2 and was popularized by the Mercury program:

The phrase "A-ok" had been in use at least as far back as 1952, when it appeared in an advertisement by Midvac Steels which read "A-OK for tomorrow's missile demands"[1]

US Air Force Lt. Col. John "Shorty" Powers popularized it while serving in the 1960s as NASA's public affairs officer for Project Mercury, the "voice of Mercury Control". He was reported as attributing the expression to astronaut Alan Shepard during his historic Freedom 7 flight, which was the United States' first manned space flight.[2][3] However, in his book, The Right Stuff, author Tom Wolfe wrote that Powers had borrowed the expression from NASA engineers who used it during radio transmission tests because "the sharper sound of A cut through the static better than O".[3]

-Wiki

He would be upset if we didn't include him.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/12/trump-administration-considering-narrower-travel-ban#img-1

i'm sure they think it's funny its a perfect troll scheme. They get to claim it's a "game" and that WE lib-ruls are too sensitive about everything. It became a prank on the website 4chan, it was called Operation O-KKK. I would bet that all these assholes doing this sign on camera know exactly what they are doing.

https://www.adl.org/blog/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-trolling-gesture

it started as a "prank" to draw attention and make the left talk about it, tweet about it, post it to social media.
Since they made it up, they got a kick out of seeing the reactions (trolling). from the article:

The “OK” hand gesture originated as one of these hoaxes in February 2017 when an anonymous 4channer announced “Operation O-KKK,” telling other members that “we must flood Twitter and other social media websites…claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy.” The user even provided a helpful graphic showing how the letters WP (for “white power”) could be traced within an “OK” gesture. The originator and others also suggested useful hashtags to help spread the hoax, such as #PowerHandPrivilege and #NotOkay. “Leftists have dug so deep down into their lunacy,” wrote the poster, “We must force [them] to dig more, until the rest of society ain’t going anywhere near that s***.”
Following the cues of the hoax’s originator, 4channers created fake e-mail and Twitter accounts and bombarded civil rights organizations, journalists, and others with messages furthering the “OK” hoax. It is possible that some of the hoaxers were racists or white supremacists themselves, as parts of 4chan are something of a haven for them, and the site itself has been a source of adherents of the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement.


other Prank/Trolls were initiated for the same purpose. clip from the article:

"One 2017 4chan thread devoted itself to brainstorming the next such hoax. “We need to make some pics that are warning parents about what the dab really means and spread it around,” wrote one 4channer (the “dab” is a popular dance move). Another 4channer suggested spreading the notion that clapping was “anti-feminist.”
One of the more successful of these recent 4chan hoaxes, also originating in February 2017, was the concept that white supremacists were drinking milk to show “the superiority of the white race” and the “purity of white milk.” One hoaxer trying to convince the Anti-Defamation League “explained” that “they are chugging milk in front of people of color, quoting racist books and phrases and supposed statistics about people of color being lactose intolerant.” A number of media websites bought into the milk hoax."

I hope that is more clear?

Both things are happening these days - use of the gesture by racists (originally just to troll but now sometimes with all sincerity) and innocent everyday use. Being dogmatic about it is what gave the gesture its power - people read a hoax story and bought into it.

The white nationalists all seem to have three fingers pointing up, while the cadets have their fingers pointing down.

Pointing up, it makes the letter K--as in KKK.

Pointing down, it makes the letter P. I'm working on what that stands for, other than what's in the next sentence.

Either way, it's obvious there is a W and a P (using the wrist) for White Power. These morons are learning marksmanship, bomb-making, and hand-to-hand combat skills. With body armor, they become Robo-dork.

Remember, McVeigh and Nichols got their skills at Fort Benning. These scum are at the Harvard of military schools. Their training will be far superior to those other domestic terrorists.

Holding the hands low makes it hard to point the fingers up because it would require an unnatural wrist bend.

This is also, to my mind, evidence in support of the "circle game" conclusion. Holding the hand low is apparently part of this dumb game.

pathetic group of people in the US.

They vote for shredding the safety net that they disproportionately rely on, accept catastrophic levels of national debt which will make the lives of their children harder, and elect politicians that implement policies that lead to hospital closings in their rural communities.

I come from a poor, rural white family. I left the backwardness and ignorance behind the moment I left for college. But they’re still there, smug in their MAGA beliefs. And for the ones who aren’t hardcore Trump supporters, they are apathetic and don’t vote. Most of them are still in poverty and rely on shrinking government programs like Medicaid, disability payments and food stamps. They complain when their meager allotment of food stamps get cut.

They are so driven by their hate of diverse, progressive America that they will elect people who are making moves that lower life expectancy. The white supremacy movement is a cancer that needs to be ripped out of the fabric of our society. They seek to destroy the body of America.

Were addressing an audience of one. Their jobs were on the line so their statement was a foregone conclusion. White nationalists are now in charge of all branches of our federal government, most especially those with enforcement powers.

I won't reflexively translate that as a "white power" symbol unless the context makes it pretty clear what's going on. That's because for 53 years of my life it carried no racist meaning, that racist meaning was manufactured by what started as a hoax, and I and many others I know have no interest in advancing white nationalism are may still be prone to making that hand gesture without thinking about the new meaning it sometimes carry (i.e. I can't say for certain that I've never signaled "OK" that way since the white nationalists started using it to troll us). The ADL web page on it is my guide, and their bottom line is this:

"Use of the okay symbol in most contexts is entirely innocuous and harmless."

To the investigation I had about who ate those Christmas cookies I ate last night. I found myself innocent too.

It's not White Power, it's Weak Penis. Every time we see it we should respond "look, it's the weak penis symbol."