Two members of alt-right accused of making white supremacist hand signs in White House after receivi

[benpollard]

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Source: Independent

Two conservative journalists have sparked outcry on social media by making what some have interpreted as a white supremacist hand symbol at a recent visit to the White House.

Freelance journalist Mike Cernovich and Cassandra Fairbanks, a reporter for Russian news outlet Sputnik, posed for a picture behind the podium in the White House briefing room. In the photo, they are making a hand sign that can be used to signify “white power.”
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Alt-right journalist Lucian Wintrich, a writer for The Gateway Pundit, sparked outcry when he flashed the symbol in a similar picture at the White House in February. Notorious alt-right personality Milo Yiannopoulos also frequently flashes the symbol.

The resurgence of the symbol may be traced back to a popular alt-right meme, known as “smug Pepe,” which began circulating on alt-right, pro-Trump message boards in 2015. Mr Trump often uses the symbol when speaking, explaining its significance with the president’s supporters.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-power-hand-symbol-cassandra-fairbanks-mike-cernovich-alt-right-white-house-a7709446.html

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In a related story, one of Trump’s national security advisors, Sebastian Gorka, will be reassigned due to his being a member of a Hungarian Nazi group.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-aide-sebastian-gorka-may-leave-white-house-n753116

Nazis are running our country!

[Orrex]

1. Wait... The "OK" sign means white power?

When the fuck did this start?

[Coventina]

2. Probably about the same time the Celtic Cross became a White Power symbol.

[Orrex]

8. Am I a bad person for wanting to take a superior white shit in their mouths?

[MindPilot]

11. Yes, that would make you a bad person.

Because they are probably into that.

[Orrex]

13. Damn those stupid fuckers.

[TeamPooka]

3. It's part of the OK sign but emphasis is placed on the last 3 fingers to make a "W" symbol for

White power

[Orrex]

6. I suggest that they stick those three fingers up their stupid racist asses

If there's anything that convinces me of the inferiority of my "race," it's fuckheads like these.

[bettyellen]

4. The Twitter white power people been doing it for a couple of years - Pepe was

Drawn with the OK symbol often too, reinforcing it.
For some reason secret symbols have always been huge with that crowd.

[bora13]

5. they don't understand

popular symbolism so they make up or copy their own.

[LanternWaste]

7. If you look, the difference in gesture is obvious.

If you look, the difference in gesture is obvious.

If you do not look, one may be compelled to ask, "wait... the ok sign means white power?"

"When the fuck did not looking start?"

[Orrex]

10. Thank you.

Until I read your offering, I thought the only zero-content messages on DU were all of those Link-to-Tweet posts.

You have demonstrated the true meaning of zero-content, and I thank you for it.

[MindPilot]

9. Nazis are ruining our country...there I fixed it for you!

Yes, that is the "white power" gang sign, and i'm surprised that it doesn't get more notice; 45 throws it all the time. It is very, very clear who these people are and what they represent. Every fucking one of them from Milo Yappy-what-the-fuck to the big turd himself are scum.

[cstanleytech]

14. Actually it heartens me to see so few people like myself know what it represents

because if more knew it would cause me personally to worry that they might growing even larger.

[malchickiwick]

12. I've noticed SCROTUS himself always makes this symbol whilst speaking.

If you can even call what he does "speaking."

[DonViejo]

15. Locking...

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[not fooled]

16. Oh, geez

It's like being in high school...secret hand symbols, really???

Except toxic, with nazis.