This...he does it all the time! White power sign.

[riversedge]

I have not seen him do it--but I only found out a while ago-this was a white power sign.



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Wendy Marcinkiewicz? @WendyMarcinkie1 21h21 hours ago
Replying to @tribelaw @baebae3017

This...he does it all the time! White power sign.

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Sheila Phelan? @smp00 21h21 hours ago
Replying to @WendyMarcinkie1 @tribelaw @baebae3017

It creeps me out when he does that finger stuff.
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Wendy Marcinkiewicz? @WendyMarcinkie1 21h21 hours ago

Me too! It especially bothered me during the Debates.
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Sheila Phelan? @smp00 21h21 hours ago

That and the way he says 'our'. Nails on chalkboard. It's the content not the style I realize - still the whole package is cringeworthy

[C_U_L8R]

1. It's also the international sign of...

The booger roller.

Trump is so gross.

[ret5hd]

3. Well...what else am I supposed to do with it???

[DefenseLawyer]

2. A short-fingered vulgarian white power sign at that. n/t

[snooper2]

4. It's not a white power sign, stop with the false memes

[riversedge]

7. I do not know if it is or not.

[onenote]

21. Your OP subject seems to suggest otherwise.

You didn't seem too ambivalent about it in your OP.

[riversedge]

23. Sorry that I did not make myself more clear. Have a good evening

[bettyellen]

9. Well WP people are using it on FB and Twitter so I'm going to say it has morphed into one....

88 didn't always mean heil Hitler, shit evolved.

[smirkymonkey]

22. I don't know what it is, but it creeped me out ever since he hit the campaign trail.

For some reason it just bothers me to no end - I can't put my finger on it. This was even before I had ever heard anything about it being a white power sign. Maybe it's just because I hate him, but for some reason that little mannerism drives me insane.

I don't know why it gets under my skin so much. Maybe it's because he is a fucking idiot and the gesture makes him seem to be a person who is saying something intelligent and important. Like he has so much conviction in the truth of what he is saying when everything is all just a lie.

[Buns_of_Fire]

30. I always saw it as a particularly annoying affectation. It bugs me, too,

I think he was taught it to keep his fingers out of his nose in public. I do it myself occasionally, but only when mocking him (for full effect, I also tie my tie so it hangs about 4" below my crotch).

[reflection]

25. I tend to agree. This is a nontroversy.

Just because some white power crotchstains decided to try to hijack it, doesn't mean they co-opt it by default. The percentage of cretins using that as a white power symbol have got to be outweighed in a huge way by the rest of us who have been using it innocently for years.

[stonecutter357]

27. yes it is..

[Thomas Hurt]

32. It is a sign for "Okay"

it is a sign for asshole in sign language I think.

Thing is, it could mean exactly that to the fascists.

Just because it is primarily used as "okay" doesn't mean it doesn't also mean white power to the assholes.

[herding cats]

49. It is on Twitter and Reddit.

It's a Pepe the frog thing that evolved to this, seriously. There's a Pepe the Frog meme with the OK (Google Pepe the Frog OK sign) sign they used to use, then it evolved. I've been on Twitter for ages and I've watched it evolve into the racist adding this into their handles 👌🏼 to be more obvious assholes.

Pretending it's not a thing is just foolish, and in denial. It's real, it's sort of new, but it's real.

[onenote]

5. Good luck proving that.

making a circle with your thumb and index finger with the other three fingers seemingly forming a "w" is a pretty common "sign" -- probably best known as the sign for "ok" or "aok". It wouldn't take long to find photos of all kinds of people making that sign.

Do I think Trump is a racist? Yes.
Do I think his making that sign proves anything? Not really.

[Runningdawg]

20. If this proves Trumps love of white power

then we need to revisit the right-wingers claim that anytime Obama pointed upward with an index finger he was praising Allah.

[Egnever]

6. Is that like a terrorist fist bump?

[linuxman]

8. This is the dumbest thing I've seen in a week full of dumb things.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Got proof that it isn't a white power sign?

Are you also saying white racists don't idolize Jackson?

[blogslut]

12. Here

https://www.adl.org/blog/no-the-ok-gesture-is-not-a-hate-symbol

Has the simple thumb-and-forefinger “OK” hand gesture become a white supremacist hand sign? Well, no, it hasn’t, but you are likely to hear just the opposite from social media, thanks to the latest hoax from members of notorious website 4chan.

The site 4chan is an anonymous discussion board with an outsized cultural impact on the Internet. It has been responsible for everything from the “I can haz cheeseburger” cat meme to the concept of rickrolling. There is little that 4channers like so much as a hoax and in recent months they have served up a number of fakeries with white supremacist themes to largely credulous on-line audiences.

The “OK” hand gesture hoax originated in February 2017 when an anonymous 4channer announced “Operation O-KKK,” telling other members that “we must flood Twitter and other social media websites…claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy.” The user even provided a helpful graphic showing how the letters WP (for “white power”) could be traced within an “OK” gesture. The originator and others also suggested useful hashtags to help spread the hoax, such as #PowerHandPrivilege and #NotOkay. “Leftists have dug so deep down into their lunacy,” wrote the poster, “We must force [them] to dig more, until the rest of society ain’t going anywhere near that s***.”

Following the cues of the hoax’s originator, 4channers created fake e-mail and Twitter accounts and bombarded civil rights organizations, journalists, and others with messages furthering the “OK” hoax. Some of the hoaxers were possibly racists or white supremacists themselves, as parts of 4chan are something of a haven for them and the site itself has been a source of adherents of the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement...

[Inkfreak]

43. Thank you.

[R B Garr]

50. The last sentence...

hmmm.

"Some of the hoaxers were possibly racists or white supremacists themselves, as parts of 4chan are something of a haven for them and the site itself has been a source of adherents of the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement..."

hmmm.

[snooper2]

14. yeah, just because people say it is to try to create a false stupid meme doesn't mean it is

[AwakeAtLast]

46. The bottom one is "Woman Power"

You heard it here first.

[linuxman]

33. "Prove a negative!"

LOL. Sad.

[Kingofalldems]

35. It's sad alright.

Of course I am talking about something totally different.

[Inkfreak]

42. Proof? Yes.

Me and everyone I know using it as the "ok" sign our entire fucking lives. And will continue to do so.

I'll be damned if I'm gonna be suckered into this epic trolling.

[JoeStuckInOH]

11. So looks like Steph Curry is likely the most prolific promoter of White Power...

The guy throws up the "WP" sign probably 5-10 times a night.

Who knew he was a white supremacist all this time?

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[eShirl]

13. context is everything

[OriginalGeek]

16. and the context of this particular gesture meme

is that trolls are promoting it to make fun of liberals. Apparently we'll freak out over any stupid thing so they make up stupid things to have a laugh at our expense.

[JoeStuckInOH]

17. Understood completely. President flashing "WP" sign during speech is racist. But then...

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Look... we all know 45 is a racist douche. But crackpot accusations about common gestures make people claiming such things look more stupid than Trump actually is.

[sarah FAILIN]

38. How many times have they praised a slave owner and questioned the Civil War?

7 posts.. No need to burn your main when you can just make a fresh fake.

It is a KKK thing. My father-in-law was in the Klan. I live in what was once the most racist town in Alabama. I know how to find out from real KKK members what they are doing.

You can't pull the wool over my eyes, or a hood either for that matter.

[BigDemVoter]

15. Maybe he's pretending to put on his goggles before he bakes his fat ass at the tanning bed.

What a fucking HOG. I HATE him.

[caraher]

18. Don't be hoodwinked

The idea of this as a White Power symbol is evidently a prank.

The ADL says this is a bogus association from 4chan

[m-lekktor]

19. Yes, someone in my facebook feed mentioned it was a 4chan prank.nt

[Vinca]

24. In that photo Trump appears to be preparing to mock an Asian person.

[rzemanfl]

26. He got that from jerking off too much. n/t

[beaglelover]

28. It is not a fucking white power sign. You've been hoodwinked by 4chan. SMH

[Hoyt]

29. He is definitely a vile racist, but I saw Colbert make a similar sign last night.

I do not think that is a racist symbol in most cases, even when racist vile Trump supporters do it in a different context.

[johnp3907]

31. Are "we" really this stupid?

[linuxman]

34. Clearly.

[WinkyDink]

36. "Trump is A-OK with ME"---

[Nevernose]

37. The white power assholes are copying Trump's mannerisms

The white power assholes are copying Trump's mannerisms. The K symbology is all bullshit, but young "alt-right" people started copying it as a sly in-joke. Being alt-rights, they're down-low racists, then more openly racist people joined in.

Shorter: alt right trolls are copying Trump's mannerisms because they think it's funny.

[Warren DeMontague]

41. 4chan thinks it's funny to portray liberals/democrats as out of touch, clueless & hypersensitive.

that is what is happening here.

[Nevernose]

45. That's part of the in-joke

It's probably (certainly) hilarious if you're still in high school.

It's a joke! It's an in-joke! It's both of those things, but also making fun of someone, which is, like, three things at once! Did you know you can make a bong out of an apple!

(Some days I'm a little jealous I'm not still in high school )

[Warren DeMontague]

47. Of course.

but it's important to be aware, from our end, so we're not looking like idiots for catapulting this ridiculous idea that every time someone does the "okay" sign with their fingers they're really trying to signal "white power".

In the other thread someone said "it's like all that illuminati sybolism in the music industry" "oh, yes, I saw a video about that, yes yes very serious business indeed"




Uh, yeah. You're being played, hello.


And for the record, I certainly smoked out of more than a few apples- technically that is a pipe, not a bong, if you want to get semantic about it- back in the day.

Frankly I found the old two foot fiberglass Graphics (before they became "graffix", back when the base was still a felt-covered can with colored pebbles inside it) delivered a much more satisfying experience.

[Warren DeMontague]

39. It's the "I'm a fucking orange freak from another dimension" sign.

[oberliner]

40. Please delete this

Everyone needs to stop with this nonsense.

[Cha]

44. Oh those White Power Shits are so Pathetic

[Beartracks]

51. Omg, yes! I saw a white supremacist do this in the 80s!!!

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[JCanete]

52. well nothing says power like finger spectacles...nt