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Mexican Man FIRED for Making White Power Sign
The Blacksphere ^ | 06/24/20 | Tiffany Lane

Posted on 06/24/2020 9:01:47 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX

San Diego Gas and Electric employee was fired after a stranger posted to Twitter a photo of the man making the white power symbol with his hand while in a company truck. Emmanuel Cafferty says he was just cracking his knuckles, but he was suspended and a few days later, fired.

It all started about two weeks ago near a Black Lives Matter rally in Poway when Emmanuel Cafferty, a San Diego Gas and Electric employee, encountered a stranger on the roadway.

The stranger followed Cafferty and took a picture of him as his arm hung out the window of his company truck.

The picture made the rounds on Twitter accompanied by a claim Cafferty was making a “white power” hand gesture made popular by white supremacists groups.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 4chan; 8chan; cancelculture; fired; mexican; okaysymbol; theleft; whitepower
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This is so insane. To top it all off, this was another prank on lefties, put out there by the same group (4Chan, I think) that came up with Pepe the frog. A supposedly Nazi frog and the OK sign... but the left fell for it. The slightly twisted pranksters created both of these in order to fool lefties into thinking these things represent some sort of secret code signals for white supremacists. Now the prank has taken on a life of its own and is causing people to be fired for nothing.

When is this witch hunt going to stop?

1 posted on 06/24/2020 9:01:47 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

He should sue 4chan for turning it into a phony “white power” symbol.


2 posted on 06/24/2020 9:05:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Just saying, is Cafferty, actually a Mexican name?

Maybe half-Mexican?


3 posted on 06/24/2020 9:05:38 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Release the attorneys!


4 posted on 06/24/2020 9:05:53 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Father in Heaven, I trust in Your love.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Yet the black supremacist group is free to roam, burn buildings, loot and harm police, hold their fists up in the air, kneel instead of stand in patriotic awe of our flag in honor of our great country.

Dear Father in Heaven,
Please bring believers to our knees in prayer for America and for You O God to reach hearts and help people to see the truth. Because You said, “The truth will set you free.”


5 posted on 06/24/2020 9:07:08 PM PDT by PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut (PRAYING FOR AMERICA EVERY DAY!)
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According to the Anti-Defamation League, the gesture — made by forming a circle with the thumb and index finger, and extending and separating the other three fingers — has been used in recent years by white supremacists to form the letters W and P, but has also long been used as a sign signifying “OK” or approval. Therefore it shouldn't be assumed to be a white supremacy symbol unless there is other evidence to support those claims, according to the ADL. …
This is the pile of misinformation that NBC (from last week) keeps putting out, citing the ADL but no mention of 4chan.
6 posted on 06/24/2020 9:13:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Pining_4_TX

What is this White Power sign I’ve been hearing about for the last year?

I had not heard about this for the previous 50. Obviously, it’s something the Left has made up recently about us.


7 posted on 06/24/2020 9:18:01 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: Pining_4_TX

I just saw post 6.


8 posted on 06/24/2020 9:19:15 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: Pining_4_TX

Isn’t a raised fist a black power sign?


9 posted on 06/24/2020 9:22:10 PM PDT by hercuroc
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To: cba123
"Just saying, is Cafferty, actually a Mexican name?"

The further south of the border you go the more none Hispanic names you find. Peru's Nipponese demographic is very powerful in politics. They had President who destroyed the Chi-Com instigated "Shining Path" during an attempted coup.

10 posted on 06/24/2020 9:29:40 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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11 posted on 06/24/2020 9:47:16 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

That’s Okay, isn’t it?


12 posted on 06/24/2020 10:08:28 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: cba123
Just saying, is Cafferty, actually a Mexican name?

Mexico once had a president named Vicente Fox and an oil minister named Juan Eigenschutz, so Cafferty could be a Mexican name.

13 posted on 06/24/2020 10:11:36 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Jess Kitting

O-TAY!

This is interesting... I just searched youtube for clips of Buckwheat from Little Rascals, and Eddie Murphy doing his Buh Weet shtick, doing the OK sign, and saying “O-tay”

They all come up as:
“Banned in your country”.


14 posted on 06/24/2020 10:14:11 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Jeff Chandler

Definitely

Corporate Marxism needs to be brought to its humble knees


15 posted on 06/24/2020 10:16:51 PM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

"Corporate Marxism needs to be brought to its humble knees"

The worst "corporate" Marxists/statists that I can see are; No. 1 - Google, No. 2 YouTube, No. 3 Twitter.

Suppression of truth and opposing voices is the number one hallmark of Marxist revolutionaries. And the top 3 are getting bolder and bolder about it.

16 posted on 06/24/2020 10:42:17 PM PDT by BP1001
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To: Pining_4_TX
Excuse me, But I have been white fore a long time and I never knew we had a sign. This is preposterous!

Peace sign, Victory sign, Hook-um Horn sign, the Bird sign, Black Power salute sign, OK sign, Boy Scout sign, Crazy in the Head sign, God is number One sign, I don't think any fingers are left for a white power sign.

17 posted on 06/24/2020 10:50:59 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Pining_4_TX

This is ridiculous! This hand gesture is innocuous in North America.

But I wouldn’t mind if progressives and the idiots at the San Diego utility company gave this hand gesture the Brazilian interpretation.


18 posted on 06/24/2020 11:14:39 PM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: LegendHasIt
They all come up as: “Banned in your country”.

You reside in North Korea?

Regards,

19 posted on 06/24/2020 11:25:57 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Nope. USA. Although for some strange reason sometimes the internet thinks I am in Mexico.


20 posted on 06/24/2020 11:58:20 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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