US Coast Guard member 'removed' after making 'offensive' OK sign on live TV

Fox News ^ | 9/15/18 | Lukas Mikelionis

[Seruzawa]

Lol.

Want to go bankrupt? Develop and try to sell products that “social media” says they want.

It’s mostly bots. All these twitter storms are completely bogus.

Who cares what millenial basement dwellers think anyhow?

[TakebackGOP]

But it was ok for Hillary to become president after using a private server when she was Secretary of State.

[Leep]

[Peeps47]

Someone needs to tell the constantly offended to go screw themselves. It’s out of control and totally ridiculous. If you walk through life looking to be offended by every little thing that’s your problem. There is no right to not be offended.

[redangus]

Hope he wasn’t in charge of guiding helps to areas to rescue Black Carolians,

[tomkat]

If that's the way the bastards wanna play it, I'll be making use of the ancient OK sign whenever/wherever possible.

             

[mylife]

[redangus]

‘Helos’

[trisham]

I’m beginning to wonder how so many people have become so insane.

[Leep]

[Sans-Culotte]

Yes, if I type "okay" on my iPhone that sign pops up. Even on this Kindle Fire it does: 👌.

[Drew68]

Meanwhile, at West Point:

No disciplinary action was taken.

[gaijin]

Cowboy clown w/Obama mask- Fired
Little frog - Super racist symbol
OK sign - Reduces millions to little “bags of nerves”

People are riduculous, these days.

[LegendHasIt]

[Steve_Seattle]

Looks like he’s scratching his ear; it lasted about one second. Since he’s just a guy sitting in the background, and since the camera was focused on the guy standing up, he probably didn’t even know he was in the picture. This is about as silly as it gets.

[ExSES]

Well I'll be damned..., I just made a stealth racist symbol to a black construction worker who had removed debris from the roadway about an hour ago, he signed back a thumbs up.... now I am wondering what epithet that connotes???!!! This would all be funny if it were not for the general population buying into this crap!

[lastchance]

Enough already. Stop letting assholes set the rules for the rest of us. The o.k gesture has been around for a long time. The fact that some pranksters at 4chan started a false story for it should have been laughed off and ignored. But now a good person has to defend themselves against the baseless hysterics of a mob inflicted with a terminal case of the galloping stupids.

[Paine in the Neck]

Ambidextrous:

[madison10]

He was putting his ear piece in/adjusting as you said. You can see it between his fingers. Poor guy, he probably did not even know what he was supposed to have done wrong.

[Leep]

Silly white people hand signals are for gangstas and thugs.