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better

(884 posts) Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:15 AM Aug 2017

So that white power hand gesture we've been seeing in Charlottesville coverage...

Has anyone with the stomach to sit through the entire Trump presser thought to count the number of times Trump flashed that sign, and the particular parts of the speech during which he did? I caught it during we condemn in the strongest possible terms, this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence" and it raised a question. If he's flashing a sign for white supremacists, is it just a 'go team' kind of thing, or does it have a specific meaning for an occasion. Perhaps in this case, "I don't actually mean this part".

Because if so, the first passage to which I saw him apply it, "I wanna know the facts" seems even more curious.

I cannot believe we are at a point where I have to consider whether my president is literally throwing up signs as covert communication.

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So that white power hand gesture we've been seeing in Charlottesville coverage... (Original Post) better Aug 2017 OP

Are you talking about the sign that looks like an "okay" sign? radical noodle Aug 2017 #1

Yes! better Aug 2017 #3

The SPLC says it's a fake sign to fool us (liberals) radical noodle Aug 2017 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author better Aug 2017 #6

I've often wondered about his hand gestures. They seem very deliberate and well rehearsed. Midnight Writer Aug 2017 #2

He has done that hand gesture in speeches woodsprite Aug 2017 #5

radical noodle

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1. Are you talking about the sign that looks like an "okay" sign?

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Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:21 AM

Aug 2017

better

(884 posts)

3. Yes!

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Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:31 AM

Aug 2017

I noticed that, having seen photos of several of the attendees in Charlottesville flashing it, and it just made me wonder...

radical noodle

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4. The SPLC says it's a fake sign to fool us (liberals)

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Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:34 AM

Aug 2017

Here's the article I found. I too thought that it was a white supremacist hand sign.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/06/12/what-ok-hand-signal-means-militia-movement

The ‘OK’ hoax was actually just the most recent in a recent series of hoaxes in which 4channers (and members of other similar places on the Internet such as 8chan and Reddit) have tried to take innocuous items, symbols or gestures and falsely attribute white supremacist meanings to them in order to fool liberals and get them to spread false messages.

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Midnight Writer

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2. I've often wondered about his hand gestures. They seem very deliberate and well rehearsed.

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Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:22 AM

Aug 2017

Reminds me of the old comic strip when "Mandrake gestures hypnotically".

woodsprite

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5. He has done that hand gesture in speeches

Reply to Midnight Writer (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 16, 2017, 07:15 AM

Aug 2017

I believe, since his campaign started. I always thought it looked like a toddler trying to play tea. Again,look at what they do, not what they say. Are there vids on YouTube from BT (before Trump) that show them using it?

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