The AP is reporting that the Army and Navy academies are investigating the hand signs flashed by students at the Army-Navy game:
The Army and Navy academies are looking into hand signs flashed by student associated with “white power” at the Army-Navy game
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To give out commendations? The crowd erupted for trump and the players looked at him like he was god in the locker room.
I'd like to think that if I was a white supremacist, I'd be smart enough to not flaunt it and potentially damage my future before entering a position of authority. But then again, I'm smart enough to not be a white supremacist.
And also, I guess white supremacy is mainstream now so maybe hiding it doesn't really matter anymore.
And also, I guess white supremacy is mainstream now so maybe hiding it doesn't really matter anymore.
The armed service has cracked down on this before and will do it again. The brass does not want this and all the press around it.
The don't look at it game? People are already giving that excuse on twitter.
The smart one do, and use assholes like this as disposable resources
They do it with every President regardless of how shitty they are. This thought? Yeah this is shit.
Yeah I remember the speech given at the Air Force academy when there was racist graffiti painted somewhere. Turned out to be a hoax in that specific instance but they didn't seem to take it lightly before knowing that.
The head of the academy went to town condemning it in a speech to the assembled cadet body.
Uh no. When I was an investigator at Great Lakes, all I had to do was tell the Command that a white kid had used a slur and they were given a train ticket home and escorted off the base.
Twitter giving it the "It's just an OK sign". Fuck off.
When did the alt right adopt this? It was , for decades, the “OH FUCK ! Haha you saw my hand now I get to hit you” game
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ADL states 4chan hijacked this in 2017:
www.adl.org
Okay Hand Gesture
A common hand gesture that a 4chan trolling campaign claimed in 2017 had been appropriated as a symbol meaning "white power." Used by many on the right--not just extremists--for the purpose of trolling liberals, the symbol eventually came to be used by actual white supremacists as well. Caution...
Yeah, brass don't play games with cadets showing their asses publicly like that while in uniform.
I'm actually really confused since I know a ton of people that still use it for that dumb "haha you looked at my hand" game. Or at least, I hope they're using it in that way and not for white power lol.
You know, I wish that dumb "ok" gesture wasn't made out to be a symbol of racism. My siblings and I been played the "don't look" game before all this shit. Then someone told my son he was being racist when he played it with his brothers at a playground. Then I learned about what it also was.
We've since switched to a hand gesture that sees all five fingers come together to form a point. Hopefully that doesn't get taken.
We've since switched to a hand gesture that sees all five fingers come together to form a point. Hopefully that doesn't get taken.
That's the point. They go out of their way to adopt benign "signals" which to most folk is just that, a game from years back or a silly hand signal that has no meaning. So when folks in the know catch on and call it out, all the normies laugh at the "overreacting liberals" while they keep flaunting their power level.
well, "world watches as racists repeatedly do thing, over and over, and over, and over again" is typically how it happens
yeah
Circle game is if it’s below the waist, so this doesn’t even have that as plausible deniability.
It's been known it's a WP symbol for years now. That "childhood ok handsign game that only white youths know about" excuse is outdated.
I keep forgetting BJ Novak was in that
But yeah, hope they get drummed out
Dated? I dunno—I guess so, but most of my family is either brown or black, and we played that game "only white youths" knew about.
considering people in the other thread posted that very defense when it happened... I'd say as soon as it happened.
Only palliative bullshit probably. Military institutions largely have no way of addressing the cause and effect between: pushing nationalist shit on their soldiers to boost patriotism and willingness to die for their nation and the anti-immigrant white supremacy that arises out of that sense of nationalism.