WH intern flashes notorious "white power" hand gesture in White House intern Xmas pic with DJT

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, 12 pages of you all working hard to call a young Jewish male a Nazi. You don't usually see something like that outside of Stormfront.

There is an undercurrent of antisemtism here. As you say, a lot of effort to make a young Jewish guy look bad. Otherwise, why was his religion brought up so early in the thread? I wonder if it the same PP who posted something about "young right-wing Jews" elsewhere, and not in a flattering light.

The issue of him being Jewish was brought up by the intern himself in his mealy-mouthed excuse issued to the press. No one else brought it up, or was even aware of his Jewish background, until he brought it up himself.

It's a laughable leap of logic that he "he can't be bigoted!" solely because of his Jewish background. How do you explain the bigoted articles that emerge from Breitbart, which is largely edited and staffed by Jewish writers?

It is okay to admit you are wrong. You should try it.

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The obsession with this young man and his silly OK sign is bizarre, but not surprising considering liberals' default mode is outrage.

Lack of self-awareness is pretty rich.

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Anonymous wrote:Game over. The intern acknowledged he flashed a white power signal. It may not have been intentional, but he still admits he did.

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PP has it wrong. He did no such thing.
This is his statement (posted upthread):

"In some of our intern pictures, I emulated the OK sign the President sometimes makes," he said. "That was foolish. I should have listened more closely to the Commander-in-Chief and given the thumbs up. I'm proud of my Jewish heritage and strongly reject the hateful views associated with racist white power organizations. I would never make common cause with them."

In other words: the intern didn't know he was flashing a white power sign. He was copying Trump. Does Trump know what he's doing when he makes that sign?

And, I guess all the liberals who use tiki torches for their summer backyard parties are totally unaware that they are aligning themselves with white supremacists. Do they even know what they are doing?

(I hate it when people “appropriate” a harmless sign or item - AOK - and then assume that anyone who uses that sign or item is somehow “stained” as a result.)

THIS. Makes me want to go out and buy a bunch of tiki torches, have a backyard bbq, and just wait for the idiots to accuse me of being a white supremacist. Talk about idiocracy. Liberals have perfected that concept.

Hint: it’s not just your tiki torches, bozo.

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Anonymous wrote:I am willing to agree that there are some people who believe that the a-ok sign is a white power sign, that there are some people who believe it's a sign for 666, that there are some people who believe it's a sign in support of communism, and that some of these people use it in those ways they believe.

But only a complete fool would think the majority of people are using it as anything other than a-ok. The reasonable belief is that the person using it in the intern photo was using it as an a-ok sign, which is commonly used by people. If the intern was being edgy in any way, it was "I'm not going to flash a thumbs up sign like I was told, I'm going to be ~unique~ but within the bounds of acceptable by flashing the a-ok sign."

Some of you all really are flat out nuts. Anything must be mined for the absolute worse view. You are exactly the same as those people who think that because NY isn't under water like we were promised in the 80's that climate change is a farce. And people wonder why our political process is in disarray. Enjoy Trump, this is the result. I wonder who's next.

The kid worked for Stephen Miller, by the far one of the most bigoted folks in this Administration. This is the guy that wrote "the Muslim ban." It seems bizarre that you're bending over backwards to give the intern the benefit of the doubt when he's clearly enmeshed in the Breitbard-world of the Alt Right.

There was no Muslim ban. Jews and Christians from the countries Obama identified as risky were banned as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Game over. The intern acknowledged he flashed a white power signal. It may not have been intentional, but he still admits he did.

Link?

PP has it wrong. He did no such thing.
This is his statement (posted upthread):

"In some of our intern pictures, I emulated the OK sign the President sometimes makes," he said. "That was foolish. I should have listened more closely to the Commander-in-Chief and given the thumbs up. I'm proud of my Jewish heritage and strongly reject the hateful views associated with racist white power organizations. I would never make common cause with them."

In other words: the intern didn't know he was flashing a white power sign. He was copying Trump. Does Trump know what he's doing when he makes that sign?

And, I guess all the liberals who use tiki torches for their summer backyard parties are totally unaware that they are aligning themselves with white supremacists. Do they even know what they are doing?

(I hate it when people “appropriate” a harmless sign or item - AOK - and then assume that anyone who uses that sign or item is somehow “stained” as a result.)

THIS. Makes me want to go out and buy a bunch of tiki torches, have a backyard bbq, and just wait for the idiots to accuse me of being a white supremacist. Talk about idiocracy. Liberals have perfected that concept.

Bet you wouldn't march around Charlottesville with one though. Or would you?

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In summary, YES it is entirely, very much possible in the conservative world that a Jew could end up promoting white supremacists. His being a Jew rules absolutely nothing out.

NP. Here are just a couple examples of this from the past year ...

Longtime Neo-Nazi reveals he's gay, has Jewish heritage (October 2017)
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/18/longtime-neo-nazi-reveals-hes-gay-has-jewish-heritage.html

Neo-Nazi blog struggles after founder's wife is revealed to be Jewish (January 2017)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/neo-nazi-blog-struggles-founder-wife-identified-jewish-article-1.2948308

Wow. You sure had to search high and low for examples. One is some dude from Britain, and the other has a Jewish wife. So you found a couple of outliers as you searched the globe.

What I object to is this broad brush being used to paint Jews being part of these groups, as if that were a fairly common occurrence, You are perpetrating negative sentiment toward Jews by pulling out rare anomalies.

Huh? No one painted a broad brush about Jewish Americans. The vast majority abhor DJT, the Alt Right, and voted for Clinton. This one intern - of a Jewish American background - made a white power hand gesture and then tried to use "...but but I'm Jewish!" excuse to paint himself as innocent. He's an idiot and should never had the privilege to work in the WH. It seriously calls into question the vetting procedures of this White House.

Mike Peinovich, aka Mike Enoch, is one of the most prominent writers on the Alt Right. He was profiled in that NY Daily News link. He is probably 2nd only to Richard Spencer in terms of public notoriety. He's a very central character to the Alt Right movement and is very well known. So stop pretending like he's some unknown individual.

Didn't something like 25% or 30% of Jewish people vote for Trump? Surely you're not accusing them all of sympathizing with neo-Nazis? just because they voted for Trump rather than Hillary? That's quite a scathing accusation.

And I never heard of Mike Enoch. I have heard of Richard Spencer, of course. As unfathomable as it is to you, I am a conservative who has no ties to, and little knowledge of, the players in these hate groups.

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But PP, you know that if you say you're a conservative, the liberals here will automatically lump you into their convenient "Neo-Nazi" pile. I'm Jewish as well and most of our Jewish friends from synagogue, work, the neighborhood - voted for Trump. Not all, but most.

I find these liberals with their "RACIST!" accusations to be either incredibly naïve, extremely arrogant, or just downright ignorant. Maybe all of the above.

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In summary, YES it is entirely, very much possible in the conservative world that a Jew could end up promoting white supremacists. His being a Jew rules absolutely nothing out.

NP. Here are just a couple examples of this from the past year ...

Longtime Neo-Nazi reveals he's gay, has Jewish heritage (October 2017)
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/18/longtime-neo-nazi-reveals-hes-gay-has-jewish-heritage.html

Neo-Nazi blog struggles after founder's wife is revealed to be Jewish (January 2017)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/neo-nazi-blog-struggles-founder-wife-identified-jewish-article-1.2948308

Wow. You sure had to search high and low for examples. One is some dude from Britain, and the other has a Jewish wife. So you found a couple of outliers as you searched the globe.

What I object to is this broad brush being used to paint Jews being part of these groups, as if that were a fairly common occurrence, You are perpetrating negative sentiment toward Jews by pulling out rare anomalies.

Huh? No one painted a broad brush about Jewish Americans. The vast majority abhor DJT, the Alt Right, and voted for Clinton. This one intern - of a Jewish American background - made a white power hand gesture and then tried to use "...but but I'm Jewish!" excuse to paint himself as innocent. He's an idiot and should never had the privilege to work in the WH. It seriously calls into question the vetting procedures of this White House.

Mike Peinovich, aka Mike Enoch, is one of the most prominent writers on the Alt Right. He was profiled in that NY Daily News link. He is probably 2nd only to Richard Spencer in terms of public notoriety. He's a very central character to the Alt Right movement and is very well known. So stop pretending like he's some unknown individual.

Didn't something like 25% or 30% of Jewish people vote for Trump? Surely you're not accusing them all of sympathizing with neo-Nazis? just because they voted for Trump rather than Hillary? That's quite a scathing accusation.

And I never heard of Mike Enoch. I have heard of Richard Spencer, of course. As unfathomable as it is to you, I am a conservative who has no ties to, and little knowledge of, the players in these hate groups.

FYI: You're the only person in here equating a vote for DJT as a vote for neo-Nazis. I never said that and I don't believe it. I think DJT fooled a lot of gullible people.

DP here. The bolded is utter BS. The most frequent "talking point" by liberals here on DCUM is that anyone who voted for Trump was also supporting neo-Nazis. It's been said again and again; your denying it just makes you look ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

In summary, YES it is entirely, very much possible in the conservative world that a Jew could end up promoting white supremacists. His being a Jew rules absolutely nothing out.

NP. Here are just a couple examples of this from the past year ...

Longtime Neo-Nazi reveals he's gay, has Jewish heritage (October 2017)
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/18/longtime-neo-nazi-reveals-hes-gay-has-jewish-heritage.html

Neo-Nazi blog struggles after founder's wife is revealed to be Jewish (January 2017)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/neo-nazi-blog-struggles-founder-wife-identified-jewish-article-1.2948308

Wow. You sure had to search high and low for examples. One is some dude from Britain, and the other has a Jewish wife. So you found a couple of outliers as you searched the globe.

What I object to is this broad brush being used to paint Jews being part of these groups, as if that were a fairly common occurrence, You are perpetrating negative sentiment toward Jews by pulling out rare anomalies.

Huh? No one painted a broad brush about Jewish Americans. The vast majority abhor DJT, the Alt Right, and voted for Clinton. This one intern - of a Jewish American background - made a white power hand gesture and then tried to use "...but but I'm Jewish!" excuse to paint himself as innocent. He's an idiot and should never had the privilege to work in the WH. It seriously calls into question the vetting procedures of this White House.

Mike Peinovich, aka Mike Enoch, is one of the most prominent writers on the Alt Right. He was profiled in that NY Daily News link. He is probably 2nd only to Richard Spencer in terms of public notoriety. He's a very central character to the Alt Right movement and is very well known. So stop pretending like he's some unknown individual.

Didn't something like 25% or 30% of Jewish people vote for Trump? Surely you're not accusing them all of sympathizing with neo-Nazis? just because they voted for Trump rather than Hillary? That's quite a scathing accusation.

And I never heard of Mike Enoch. I have heard of Richard Spencer, of course. As unfathomable as it is to you, I am a conservative who has no ties to, and little knowledge of, the players in these hate groups.

FYI: You're the only person in here equating a vote for DJT as a vote for neo-Nazis. I never said that and I don't believe it. I think DJT fooled a lot of gullible people.

DP here. The bolded is utter BS. The most frequent "talking point" by liberals here on DCUM is that anyone who voted for Trump was also supporting neo-Nazis. It's been said again and again; your denying it just makes you look ridiculous.

Yes.l..and it's even more ridiculous when they insist that Jewish Trump voters support Nazis. Do the liberals honestly believe that, or are they just lashing out in anger at people who didn't vote for Hillary (like children would do)?

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Anonymous wrote:Game over. The intern acknowledged he flashed a white power signal. It may not have been intentional, but he still admits he did.

Link?

PP has it wrong. He did no such thing.
This is his statement (posted upthread):

"In some of our intern pictures, I emulated the OK sign the President sometimes makes," he said. "That was foolish. I should have listened more closely to the Commander-in-Chief and given the thumbs up. I'm proud of my Jewish heritage and strongly reject the hateful views associated with racist white power organizations. I would never make common cause with them."

In other words: the intern didn't know he was flashing a white power sign. He was copying Trump. Does Trump know what he's doing when he makes that sign?

And, I guess all the liberals who use tiki torches for their summer backyard parties are totally unaware that they are aligning themselves with white supremacists. Do they even know what they are doing?

(I hate it when people “appropriate” a harmless sign or item - AOK - and then assume that anyone who uses that sign or item is somehow “stained” as a result.)

THIS. Makes me want to go out and buy a bunch of tiki torches, have a backyard bbq, and just wait for the idiots to accuse me of being a white supremacist. Talk about idiocracy. Liberals have perfected that concept.

Hint: it’s not just your tiki torches, bozo.

Hmm. Tell that to your fellow liberal who actually took to DCUM to ask the question: "Is it ok if I have tiki torches at my backyard bbq, or will everyone think I'm a white supremacist?" That's right. She actually had to crowdsource the answer to this ridiculous question. Common sense eludes you people, doesn't it?

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Anonymous wrote:Game over. The intern acknowledged he flashed a white power signal. It may not have been intentional, but he still admits he did.

Link?

PP has it wrong. He did no such thing.
This is his statement (posted upthread):

"In some of our intern pictures, I emulated the OK sign the President sometimes makes," he said. "That was foolish. I should have listened more closely to the Commander-in-Chief and given the thumbs up. I'm proud of my Jewish heritage and strongly reject the hateful views associated with racist white power organizations. I would never make common cause with them."

In other words: the intern didn't know he was flashing a white power sign. He was copying Trump. Does Trump know what he's doing when he makes that sign?

And, I guess all the liberals who use tiki torches for their summer backyard parties are totally unaware that they are aligning themselves with white supremacists. Do they even know what they are doing?

(I hate it when people “appropriate” a harmless sign or item - AOK - and then assume that anyone who uses that sign or item is somehow “stained” as a result.)

THIS. Makes me want to go out and buy a bunch of tiki torches, have a backyard bbq, and just wait for the idiots to accuse me of being a white supremacist. Talk about idiocracy. Liberals have perfected that concept.

Bet you wouldn't march around Charlottesville with one though. Or would you?

I wouldn't march, period. I leave the virtue signaling to you guys.

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Anonymous wrote:Game over. The intern acknowledged he flashed a white power signal. It may not have been intentional, but he still admits he did.

Link?

PP has it wrong. He did no such thing.
This is his statement (posted upthread):

"In some of our intern pictures, I emulated the OK sign the President sometimes makes," he said. "That was foolish. I should have listened more closely to the Commander-in-Chief and given the thumbs up. I'm proud of my Jewish heritage and strongly reject the hateful views associated with racist white power organizations. I would never make common cause with them."

In other words: the intern didn't know he was flashing a white power sign. He was copying Trump. Does Trump know what he's doing when he makes that sign?

And, I guess all the liberals who use tiki torches for their summer backyard parties are totally unaware that they are aligning themselves with white supremacists. Do they even know what they are doing?

(I hate it when people “appropriate” a harmless sign or item - AOK - and then assume that anyone who uses that sign or item is somehow “stained” as a result.)

THIS. Makes me want to go out and buy a bunch of tiki torches, have a backyard bbq, and just wait for the idiots to accuse me of being a white supremacist. Talk about idiocracy. Liberals have perfected that concept.

Bet you wouldn't march around Charlottesville with one though. Or would you?

I wouldn't march, period. I leave the virtue signaling to you guys.

Oh virtue signaling....
....like when the Alt Right does cute little hand gestures?
....like Make America Great Again hats sold by a con artist family?
....like the creation of memes and a stupid frog mascot?

Lol, you do realize that the Right far and away uses virtue signaling to identify one another, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Game over. The intern acknowledged he flashed a white power signal. It may not have been intentional, but he still admits he did.

Link?

PP has it wrong. He did no such thing.
This is his statement (posted upthread):

"In some of our intern pictures, I emulated the OK sign the President sometimes makes," he said. "That was foolish. I should have listened more closely to the Commander-in-Chief and given the thumbs up. I'm proud of my Jewish heritage and strongly reject the hateful views associated with racist white power organizations. I would never make common cause with them."

In other words: the intern didn't know he was flashing a white power sign. He was copying Trump. Does Trump know what he's doing when he makes that sign?

And, I guess all the liberals who use tiki torches for their summer backyard parties are totally unaware that they are aligning themselves with white supremacists. Do they even know what they are doing?

(I hate it when people “appropriate” a harmless sign or item - AOK - and then assume that anyone who uses that sign or item is somehow “stained” as a result.)

THIS. Makes me want to go out and buy a bunch of tiki torches, have a backyard bbq, and just wait for the idiots to accuse me of being a white supremacist. Talk about idiocracy. Liberals have perfected that concept.

Bet you wouldn't march around Charlottesville with one though. Or would you?

I wouldn't march, period. I leave the virtue signaling to you guys.

Not march in a crowd, just walk around downtown Charlottesville carrying a tiki torch. Would you do it? Do you think it might be sending a message in that particular context?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

In summary, YES it is entirely, very much possible in the conservative world that a Jew could end up promoting white supremacists. His being a Jew rules absolutely nothing out.

NP. Here are just a couple examples of this from the past year ...

Longtime Neo-Nazi reveals he's gay, has Jewish heritage (October 2017)
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/18/longtime-neo-nazi-reveals-hes-gay-has-jewish-heritage.html

Neo-Nazi blog struggles after founder's wife is revealed to be Jewish (January 2017)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/neo-nazi-blog-struggles-founder-wife-identified-jewish-article-1.2948308

Wow. You sure had to search high and low for examples. One is some dude from Britain, and the other has a Jewish wife. So you found a couple of outliers as you searched the globe.

What I object to is this broad brush being used to paint Jews being part of these groups, as if that were a fairly common occurrence, You are perpetrating negative sentiment toward Jews by pulling out rare anomalies.

Huh? No one painted a broad brush about Jewish Americans. The vast majority abhor DJT, the Alt Right, and voted for Clinton. This one intern - of a Jewish American background - made a white power hand gesture and then tried to use "...but but I'm Jewish!" excuse to paint himself as innocent. He's an idiot and should never had the privilege to work in the WH. It seriously calls into question the vetting procedures of this White House.

Mike Peinovich, aka Mike Enoch, is one of the most prominent writers on the Alt Right. He was profiled in that NY Daily News link. He is probably 2nd only to Richard Spencer in terms of public notoriety. He's a very central character to the Alt Right movement and is very well known. So stop pretending like he's some unknown individual.

Didn't something like 25% or 30% of Jewish people vote for Trump? Surely you're not accusing them all of sympathizing with neo-Nazis? just because they voted for Trump rather than Hillary? That's quite a scathing accusation.

And I never heard of Mike Enoch. I have heard of Richard Spencer, of course. As unfathomable as it is to you, I am a conservative who has no ties to, and little knowledge of, the players in these hate groups.

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But PP, you know that if you say you're a conservative, the liberals here will automatically lump you into their convenient "Neo-Nazi" pile. I'm Jewish as well and most of our Jewish friends from synagogue, work, the neighborhood - voted for Trump. Not all, but most.

I find these liberals with their "RACIST!" accusations to be either incredibly naïve, extremely arrogant, or just downright ignorant. Maybe all of the above.

So true. And what's with the big effort on this thread to keep insisting that Jews are part of these hate groups? I've seen some scary Jewish conspiracy theories bandied about on this forum, all from liberals of course, and I find it scary.

Do you belong to a conservative synogogue? I'm finding it's about 50/50 in my shul. The reform symogoues are where you find all the liberals.

That's funny. The thread has veered away from that topic twice and twice now it's been brought up again by someone complaining about it. Do you want to let it drop or not? Or do you just want to stir up the drama?

Uh oh...more drama...that's not good...

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Anonymous wrote:... The reasonable belief is that the person using it in the intern photo was using it as an a-ok sign, which is commonly used by people. If the intern was being edgy in any way, it was "I'm not going to flash a thumbs up sign like I was told, I'm going to be ~unique~ but within the bounds of acceptable by flashing the a-ok sign." ...

Why is is unreasonable to think someone associated with this White House would harbor racist alt-right "Pepe" views? Here is a tweet from the Gateway Pundit alt-right idiots, where they're flashing the same Pepe symbol in the White House press briefing room, and they even include Pepe the frog in their tweet to make crystal clear the symbolism they're pushing.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog

You keep proving my point.

Most of the users of Pepe (and the creation in 2005) weren't racist. Most of the users of the a-ok sign aren't racist, devil-worshiping, communists. Some people may have co-opted its meaning. Just like some people have coopted the color red. To assume anyone wearing red is a member of a gang is as idiotic as assuming anyone flashing the a-ok sign is doing so to secretly signal he's a white supremacist is idiotic.

Some climate scientists have been overblown in their predictions of disaster, therefore all claims of global warming are false!eleventy

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Anonymous wrote:Game over. The intern acknowledged he flashed a white power signal. It may not have been intentional, but he still admits he did.

Link?

PP has it wrong. He did no such thing.
This is his statement (posted upthread):

"In some of our intern pictures, I emulated the OK sign the President sometimes makes," he said. "That was foolish. I should have listened more closely to the Commander-in-Chief and given the thumbs up. I'm proud of my Jewish heritage and strongly reject the hateful views associated with racist white power organizations. I would never make common cause with them."

In other words: the intern didn't know he was flashing a white power sign. He was copying Trump. Does Trump know what he's doing when he makes that sign?

And, I guess all the liberals who use tiki torches for their summer backyard parties are totally unaware that they are aligning themselves with white supremacists. Do they even know what they are doing?

(I hate it when people “appropriate” a harmless sign or item - AOK - and then assume that anyone who uses that sign or item is somehow “stained” as a result.)

THIS. Makes me want to go out and buy a bunch of tiki torches, have a backyard bbq, and just wait for the idiots to accuse me of being a white supremacist. Talk about idiocracy. Liberals have perfected that concept.

Bet you wouldn't march around Charlottesville with one though. Or would you?

I wouldn't march, period. I leave the virtue signaling to you guys.

Oh virtue signaling....
....like when the Alt Right does cute little hand gestures?
....like Make America Great Again hats sold by a con artist family?
....like the creation of memes and a stupid frog mascot?

Lol, you do realize that the Right far and away uses virtue signaling to identify one another, right?

Virtue signaling does not mean what you think it does, dolt.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Virtue%20Signalling
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/virtue-signalling

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Anonymous wrote:... The reasonable belief is that the person using it in the intern photo was using it as an a-ok sign, which is commonly used by people. If the intern was being edgy in any way, it was "I'm not going to flash a thumbs up sign like I was told, I'm going to be ~unique~ but within the bounds of acceptable by flashing the a-ok sign." ...

Why is is unreasonable to think someone associated with this White House would harbor racist alt-right "Pepe" views? Here is a tweet from the Gateway Pundit alt-right idiots, where they're flashing the same Pepe symbol in the White House press briefing room, and they even include Pepe the frog in their tweet to make crystal clear the symbolism they're pushing.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog

You keep proving my point.

Most of the users of Pepe (and the creation in 2005) weren't racist. Most of the users of the a-ok sign aren't racist, devil-worshiping, communists. Some people may have co-opted its meaning. Just like some people have coopted the color red. To assume anyone wearing red is a member of a gang is as idiotic as assuming anyone flashing the a-ok sign is doing so to secretly signal he's a white supremacist is idiotic.

Some climate scientists have been overblown in their predictions of disaster, therefore all claims of global warming are false!eleventy

But if you're going to a meeting with some Crips do you wear red?