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Universal Orlando is sued for $30K over photos of actor dressed as Minions villain Gru 'flashing white supremacist "OK" sign in photos with two young girls of color'
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 07/11/2021 5:31:38 PM PDT by algore

Two families sued Universal Orlando for $30,000 after an actor dressed as the Disney character 'Gru' flashed a white-power hand gesture in two separate photos with young girls of color.

The lawsuit - filed in Orange County, Florida on June 23 - includes the photos from February and March 2019 with the 'Despicable Me' character making the 'OK' white-supremacist hand gesture in both photos.

One of the victims is a six-year-old biracial girl and the other victim is a five-year-old Hispanic girl.

'He openly and pointedly displayed towards them a universally-known and universally-used hate symbol that indicates white power,' the lawsuit says.

'This white power hand signal has become openly and widely used to express hatred towards a segment of the population based upon a person's race, color and national origin, and it has prevalently and commonly been known as a hate symbol for years.'

The Anti-Defamation League considered the 'OK' hand gesture a form of hate speech in 2017.

The six year old ran up to the actor dressed as Gru from one of her favorite movies 'Despicable Me' and asked for a picture in February 2019.

The actor put his arm around the young girl and made the hand gesture above her shoulder and let it linger, according to the lawsuit.

She wanted to show the picture to her classmates but her parents told her she couldn't because 'a man did a bad thing to her because he did not like her because of her race and color,' the lawsuit says.

A month later, 'Gru' did the same thing in a picture with a young Hispanic girl.

In both incidents, the lawsuit claims the character's handler or the park did nothing to stop it and are responsible.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: algore

But a transgendered weirdo can flash his weaner at young girls in a spa bathroom


41 posted on 07/11/2021 6:49:12 PM PDT by artichokegrower (I )
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To: PghBaldy

It started as a prank.


42 posted on 07/11/2021 6:55:13 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: Crim

“Universally known” ?


43 posted on 07/11/2021 6:57:32 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Secret Agent Man

It’s not totally universal. It means something offensive in other parts of the world but having nothing to do with racism.


44 posted on 07/11/2021 7:11:19 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: algore

What color is the person inside the costume?


45 posted on 07/11/2021 7:16:55 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: PghBaldy
Is it a prank, or a leftist tool to harm the right

It surprises me that I seem to be the only one on this thread who understands that this is all the result of a 4chan hoax.

4chan is conservative. Its members are wizards of the internet. Operation O-KKK was one of their hoax masterpieces, though it may have evolved in a way they did not intend.

This piece by the Anti-Defamation League provides a good explanation.

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

46 posted on 07/11/2021 7:27:18 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: TChad

Perhaps I was mistaken when I said Reddit and 8chan instead of 4chan but I have made repeated posts about it being a prank.


47 posted on 07/11/2021 7:32:12 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: TChad

I should have said in #46 that I have no idea if the ADL’s description of the use of the OK sign among actual white supremacists is accurate, or just reflects the ADL’s agenda. The left adopted and spread 4chan’s hoax, before and after they knew it was a hoax. I do not know whether or not it was subsequently adopted by actual white supremacists. My knowledge of actual white supremacists is nil.


48 posted on 07/11/2021 7:38:24 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: algore
"a universally-known and universally-used hate symbol"

Except by conservatives, who never heard about this alleged white-supremacist symbol until the media started making an issue of it.
49 posted on 07/11/2021 7:50:22 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

News to me. I don’t have TV nor appears anymore so don’t know what is racist anymore


50 posted on 07/11/2021 8:00:06 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: algore
Crazy sue happy libs. Likely not intentional from my view.
51 posted on 07/11/2021 8:16:35 PM PDT by consult
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To: algore
Her is another, this one does look unntural.
52 posted on 07/11/2021 8:18:05 PM PDT by consult
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To: algore

In the second photo, the actor is making that circle on the child’s shoulder on purpose.

That’s not the OK sign. Maybe he’s playing the “circle game”?

Or maybe he’s being a jerk.


53 posted on 07/11/2021 10:22:35 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: TChad

Not reading what the ADL says, but here’s what I know: It started years ago as the circle game, a child’s game. Then some on 4chan played a prank, claiming it was a white supremacist symbol. But, then the 4chan joke caught on, and teens and college students were using it with each other.

Those Disney photos were taken in 2019, right? That year, I worked around high school-age kids, and that symbol became popular, but not everyone using it knew what they were doing. My teen thought the other teens were playing the circle game. Some other teens didn’t know what it was; they flashed it, just because everyone else was doing it. And my college student said other students were flashing the symbol as a “joke” white supremacist symbol to each other.

What “Gru” did was only evident in the second photo. But, he (?) was doing one of three things:

- Either he was playing the circle game as a joke,
- Or he was using a popular gesture he didn’t know had any meaning at all,
- Or he was being a creep with an innocent child.


54 posted on 07/11/2021 11:22:30 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: LIConFem

#7. The ADL has gone completely batshit with its pro-Obama leader. Wasn’t always that way. The Left never gives up on seeking power and liberals never keep on being stupid and continue to fund their own enemies.


55 posted on 07/12/2021 1:50:22 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: polymuser

#15. I thought that was a three-eared shadow rabbit. What changed?


56 posted on 07/12/2021 1:51:05 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: JonPreston

If the Left back then used today’s “woke, CRT” write/speak, the headline they would have written about the John Glenn flight and his hand signal, would read, “White Racist in Space. Signals world domination”.


57 posted on 07/12/2021 1:54:41 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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