Posted on 12/20/2019 12:11:05 PM PST by Libloather
An investigation into accusations that students at last week's Army-Navy football game made white supremacist gestures determined that the students were playing a game and had no racist intentions, according to officials at West Point.
Pre-game festivities aired by ESPN on Dec. 14 showed cadets on both sides of the rivalry - two West Point cadets and one Naval Academy midshipman - making gestures as a camera focused on a sideline report.
At least one of the gestures resembled a white supremacist symbol described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "the thumb and forefinger joined together in a circle, the remaining three fingers splayed out behind."
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You are racist for calling them out. Blacks are innocent. Well, ....
The SPLC would consider waving good-bye to someone as a Nazi salute.
🖕 the Southern Poverty Law Center.
When the trial fails: Peach 45 agin.
They make this stuff up.
My Dad would agree.
He died for freedom.
God bless my Dad.
Duh.
The game is called Pwn the Media.
Believe progressives/journalists/other trash
or believe West Point.
Dilemmas, puzzles....
What to do, what to do?
Somehow, I think I know the group that actually got an education.
Man you are fantastic.
My generation would call you a “pistol”
. It’s a badge of honor.
I’m re watching President Trump rally from MI.
Okay? .....lol. .
The “OK” hand gesture only recently emerged as a “white power” symbol, stemming from a hoax by members of the website 4chan to “falsely promote the gesture as a hate symbol, claiming that the gesture represented the letters ‘wp,’ for ‘white power,’” according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
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Above is from the article. I can’t believe they reported it correctly.
I remember when Mel Allen told us to “make the three-ring sign for Ballantine.” (Beer.)
It widely means (to sane people) “OK.”
It also is a sign for “OK” among SCUBA divers.
SLPC is a hate group.
IT was the power of autism on 4chan messing with the liberals again.. they posted a bunch of memes showing the super secret symbolism of our most common hand gestures and when the SPLC / media types ate it up hook line and sinker, they went around posting pictures of Obama making the same symbols...things like the okay sign. The problem is some actual racists started to believe the memes too, so now it has taken a life of its own.
The fist is a black power sign - been used by black protestors for years
The things I learn on this forum . . .
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