Coast Guard hurricane team member fired for making white power sign.

[Teflon Don]

Well the secret is finally out.

You got us. That is the sign we flash when we want to throw down a good ole fashioned cross burning followed by a lynchin.

Damn guess we will have to find something else to use instead of OK

 

[canceled.2021.3]

Dammit

The frogs outta the bag

 

[Bigdog]

It is. That folks think this is a racist gesture. It is not. At all. It was started as a prank and way too many people fell for it. Like now.

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/5/17821946/white-power-hand-signal-brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearing-zina-bash-4chan

The origins of the okay hand signal troll

As the ADL’s Pitcavage explained last year, this whole story was fueled, like so much internet nonsense before it, with a 4chan trolling effort.

In February 2017, Pitcavage writes, a 4chan user proposed an effort called “Operation O-KKK” in which he and allies would, in the anonymous user’s words, “flood Twitter and other social media websites … claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy.” Here’s the original 4chan post, as shared by KnowYourMeme:

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4chan post originating “Operation O-KKK”
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The choice of the okay symbol for the prank, as KnowYourMeme editor-in-chief Brad Kim explains, was not totally arbitrary; “Sometime during the 2016 United States presidential election,” Kim writes, “Pizza Party Ben and Milo Yiannopoulos began making the gesture together at various events supporting the candidacy of Donald Trump.”

Hi Sailor,

I find it strange that Pitcavage is the only person on the internet that could detect this was a hoax.

 

[Lesh]

How did he disrespect the service?

Oh look at the avatar.

 

[tinfoil]

While it is true that it was a liberal that first pointed out the "sign", it seems to me that it is the right wing that is making a big deal out of it.

No, I don't believe that's true. The evidence is right wing people are laughing about it and liberals are finding it a serious issue. Which one thinks it's a big deal again?

 

[MAGA MAN]

OPie, you are not only just plain ignorant of fact, but you are also about the stupidest poster we have here in the forum for starting this chickenshit thread!

Congratulations!

You need to use more exclamation points.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Not the same. Obama was not a white power type, so obviously not a WP sign. that guy was sending a signal.

have you ever heard of circular reasoning.........the signal proves he's a white power type and the fact he's a white power type proves its a signal.......

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Anyone who sides wwith Sailor is being a whiny troll.

is that because he's " a white power type"?.......or just because Nordnerd thinks so......

 

[canceled.2021.3]

Let me get it straight here: You know that this hand signal thing was made up, correct? Or do you still believe it's truly a signal white supremacists use to signal one another?

Is it like the Bat Signal? Are they summoned into their racist duty at first sight of the signal?

Is it like an advertising tool for recruitment? Kids think it's cool to flash the signal... like gang hand signals?

Is it a signal people are using to rile up the people who are easily offended because it seems so silly to believe it's truly a signal, and the people doing the signalling are enjoying making those offended people look stupid?

People do and say things just to be mean or sometimes to mock or invoke a behavior that can be mocked.

No more lies

They are on to us. It is the sign that means a lynchin is comin

 

[Eagle_Eye]

I keep your ugly hater ass on ignore most of the time, but took you off to see what this was about. This liberal highly respects our Coast Guard and I want to know why you're disrespecting them, or misinterpreting something -- which is usually the case with you.

But alas, you didn't post a link or anything else referencing your pout-rage. How do you expect ppl to discuss if we don't even know what you're whining about now? You know... things like was this "member" a civilian volunteer auxiliary person? A paid employee? A CG member? What is this "sign" you whine of?

As usual Rotten Bowel has no answer so she just posts more bull shit to impress her fellow lefties, making her a true Attention whore.

 

[Eagle_Eye]

Yeah, middle aged and older white supremacists are like that, snowflakes one and all.

Only one possible answer to this bullshit.

 

[Eagle_Eye]

These feckless twist don't even have the courage of conviction to stand up and say "yeah? so what!". They always whine and hide and squeal "unfair!".

Damn Lum are you trying to take the title of Attention Whore away from Rotten Bowel?

 

[Eagle_Eye]

Oooooooo here's a good one. Bush 41...the left loves the Bushes 'cause they're tight with the Obamas and Clintons.

Did you know Ronald Reagan was a white supremist according to the idiots here.

 

[Lesh]

When you look to see if you are on camera and then flash the sign and pretend to be scratching your face...

Well gee...

When you take a text message and then slip the sign into a very awkward crossing of your arms...while sitting on camera behind a SC nominee

Well gee

 

[blackascoal]

No, I don't believe that's true. The evidence is right wing people are laughing about it and liberals are finding it a serious issue. Which one thinks it's a big deal again?

Personally, I love that republicans are laughing about it and democrats are taking it seriously.

Anything republicans can do to further divide the country and support racists is just fine by me and millions of others who will get the last laugh this November.

... great strategy.

 

[Eagle_Eye]

Here are some pics of famous people that show you idiots that believe the ok signal is a white power signal are full of shit.

 

[TOP]

Here are some pics of famous people that show you idiots that believe the ok signal is a white power signal are full of shit.

That gesture is always going to mean okay...nothing else....

 

[Teflon Don]

That gesture is always going to mean okay...nothing else....

Actually we are arguing the wrong thing here. It isn't whether the sign has meant OK and if you asked 1,000 people 1,000 people would tell you that. It is this notion that people can arbitrarily change something and then it has to mean that for EVERYONE.

Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that some white supremacist groups have adopted it as a symbol of solidarity with their movement. Does that mean the rest of us have to allow it? Does that mean the rest of us have to accept it and we can never use the OK sign again lest we be branded as white supremacists?

I think this is nothing more than a window into the bankrupt soul of people like blackasscancer and shows the depths to which he will sink in order to paint ALL white people as racist. He is a race hustler of the highest order and deserves nothing but scorn and derision. His mantra is either you agree with him 100% or he calls you a racist motherfucker.

The sooner white people get over the fear of being racist the sooner we can start calling things for what they are and talking about them honestly. I got over that fear years ago and I tell it is fucking liberating. I laugh at race hustlers like blackasscancer. Look for him to get even more angry as his cancer grows and spreads and gets closer to taking his life

This is basically like the Confederate flag issue

Just because some white supremacist groups have absconded it as some symbol for themselves doesn't mean the rest of us have to accept it.

 

[Old Trapper]

So let’s get this straight. If 12 white supremacists use a hand signal that has meant one thing for decades that means

a) everyone should be aware?
b) never use that hand gesture again?

I can guarantee that if pull 1000 random people off of the street and ask them what that means 999 of them will say OK

This is the first I have ever seen this “hand signal” be labeled a white supremacist sign. But apparently our liberal friends are pretty up to speed on what is going on in white supremacist circles.

Were they flashing this sign all over Charlottesville?

You really enjoy showing just how utterly stupid you are. Did you even read the article I posted, or are you just too stupid to understand the big words like "the"?

"Reaction to the “OK” symbol hoax was so widespread in the spring and summer of 2017 that a number of people on the far right began deliberately to use the gesture—typically making the sign while posing for photographs uploaded to social media—in order to continue the trolling and spread it further.

Over the year and a half since the original hoax campaign began, ADL has tracked its usage by a variety of figures on the far right, including some well-known white supremacists, though it seems to be even more popular among the so-called alt lite. Use of the “OK” gesture has spread beyond the far right and can now also be found within the broad community of mainstream Donald Trump supporters—some of whom seem to have no idea of its origins."

Now, I do not know what part of the world you live in, however, in my part, the Northwest, "A-OK" was symbolized by either the thumb up (most common) sign, or the circled thumb with index finger, and the remaining three fingers slightly curved over the index to form a kind of "A".

Of course, your useful idiot friends would say anything if it could mean denigrating someone who disagrees with them.

 

[Old Trapper]

Did you know Ronald Reagan was a white supremist according to the idiots here.

Did you notice that the thumb, and index, finger are not forming an "O", but rather a grasping indication?

Did you know that the hoax did not begin until 2017?

Of course not. Your just another whining right winger with more lies to tell then your lord and master.