The stupid NY Post site crashes my computer. Can somebody give me the executive summary about WTF ‘14’ means?
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter tweeted a single number, and neo-Nazis on Twitter went wild.
The tweet was simple: “14!” — the number of full days President Barack Obama is still in office. But the number is also a white supremacist symbol: “14” refers to the “14 words,” which the Anti-Defamation League calls the “most popular white supremacist slogan in the world.” The words are, “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
Coulter’s fans responded almost unanimously with “88!” — code for “HH,” or “Heil Hitler.” Answering a “14” with an “88” is a common call-and-response chant for white supremacists (or, as the racist, Trump-cheering, far-right zealots on the internet call themselves now, the “alt-right”).
In an email, Coulter told Mic [https://mic.com/articles/164448/ann-coulter-14-tweet-neo-nazi-alt-right-racism-white-supremacy#.BaZZFnT5I], “I have tweeted the number of days Obama has left in office at least 50 times. anyone who hasn’t figured that out by now is retarded.” (Her last “countdown” tweet appears to be from Dec. 7.)