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Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
8. No, the circle game is not a white power symbol. What BS
Wed Jul 18, 2018, 12:34 PM
Jul 2018

This is absurd. The circle game has been a thing since I was in high school. And for a white the deputies I worked with played it.

The entire claim that the “OK” sigh is a white supremacist symbol came from a 4chan trolling operation where they made it up. That’s it. No evidence was ever seen it was ever actually used by a hate group before 4chan put it out there and none after aside from some wannabes who believed the trolling.

I track hate groups and speech and such online for my job. The entire claim that the OK sign is a white power symbol was made up by trolls from 4chan and aside from that has zero origins in any actual use by hate groups.

But because people jump off without facts or without caring about facts they suspend them? Really?

These officers were suspended for playing a very minor prank because the cities mayor fell for a 4chan prank and isn’t smart enough to even bother looking up to see what it is and, by his own words, didn’t even ask the officers.

I have no idea what these officers believe on racial issues or anything related. But I can tell you that after being suspended for that kind of nonsense on such a weak accusation of racism that has no proof other than a 4chan prank all of them are probably less likely to take real claims of racial bias seriously when they have seen themselves punished based on pretty much no evidence ot basis in reality.

People need to at least do a tiny bit of research before jumping off the handle and doing things like suspending people.

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

From the looks of the house, they obviously caught a kingpin. Scurrilous Jul 2018 #1
LOL malaise Jul 2018 #2
Same group is also famous for the great peanut butter escape sarah FAILIN Jul 2018 #7
Straight out of Idiocracy. Scurrilous Jul 2018 #9
It's frightening that they are allowed to carry guns HopeAgain Jul 2018 #3
White power cops in the Alabama police?! superpatriotman Jul 2018 #4
They got 2 weeks off. sarah FAILIN Jul 2018 #6
I got in an argument with their buddies last night sarah FAILIN Jul 2018 #5
It isn't a white power symbol. Never was Lee-Lee Jul 2018 #10
I'll give you the number he gave me sarah FAILIN Jul 2018 #14
Some random kid you know isn't a valid source Lee-Lee Jul 2018 #16
You haven't talked to him. sarah FAILIN Jul 2018 #21
No, the circle game is not a white power symbol. What BS Lee-Lee Jul 2018 #8
Ah, the "liberals will make them racists" canard. That's not how it works. bettyellen Jul 2018 #11
So you think there won't be any effects from a baseless accusation and suspension? Lee-Lee Jul 2018 #13
I am certain there's more than the photo. And just because the gesture started on 4chan as a joke bettyellen Jul 2018 #17
Post removed Post removed Jul 2018 #18
Well I've seen actual racists pick it up after the 4Chan thing so I guessed you missed that... bettyellen Jul 2018 #20
It's funny how supremacists bust on minority gangs using signs, while they have their own gang sign. TheBlackAdder Jul 2018 #12
They do, but this isn't one of them. Lee-Lee Jul 2018 #15
It isn't? CakeGrrl Jul 2018 #22
When I was a kid, many eons ago, it was called "caught your eye". Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2018 #19
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