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

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Anonymous wrote:So let's say the alt- right decided to make another ordinary gesture - like nodding your head to signal "yes" - a racist symbol. Would that mean that anytime someone nodded his head you'd consider him a racist?

Depends on the context. Someone working in an administration that has demonstrated sympathy for NeoNazis in the past should be very careful to not make those gestures. Otherwise it could be misconstrued. So whether he meant it or not it still wasn't the smartest move. He was just copying what he saw others around him doing, not realizing the significance.

They guy making the AOK sign has shown sympathy for NeoNazis? How exactly do liberals think he did that?

Not the guy, the administration.

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Anonymous wrote:For all the olds in here too busy paying a mortgage and taking kids to soccer practice to understand how bigotry has evolved, please read this:

But Mark Pitcavage, a senior researcher at the ADL's Center on Extremism told DailyMail.com in a statement Friday that it was intended to provoke those on the left and had been used by white supremacists.

He said: 'Over the past year, following a prank attempt originating on the website 4chan last February, a variety of people - mostly from the far right - have used the 'okay' hand gesture to signify their allegiance to right-wing causes or movements while simultaneously trolling people on the left, attempting to elicit a reaction.

'Some of the people using the gesture in this fashion have been open white supremacists, especially from the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement, but other people using the gesture include adherents of the so-called alt lite.

'Alt lite adherents are an offshoot of the alt right, typically disdaining the explicit white supremacy of the alt right while still embracing its other hateful attitudes towards women, immigrants, LGBTQ people, Muslims, and the left. Some other people on the right, such as Breitbart supporters, might also employ the gesture.

'It is important to acknowledge that the 'okay' hand gesture is one of the most common hand gestures in the United States, that most employment of that gesture is entirely innocuous, and that no racist or extremist implications should be read into its use unless the context of its use provides additional evidence to support such a finding.

Youth today are indoctrinated, not educated. Think for yourself

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Now let's say this kid IS a white supremacist. He's an intern? Was he hand-picked by the President himself because he's a white supremacist? Is he an advisor to the President? Were I a liberal, I would consider Obama's direct advisors - stones, glass houses and all that.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought that was the okay sign. When did that become a white power symbol? My childhood was a lie.

It's also supposedly an Illuminati sign.

lots going on here! lol

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uh oh

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The White Power symbol isn't the same. It's similar to the 'OK' sign with the index finger and thumb touching, but the remaining fingers are deliberately splayed out to represent a 'W' with the index finger, thumb and forearm representing the 'P' spelling out the initials for White Power.

And "this kid" was specifically working for Stephen Miller who has many strong ties to white supremacists like Richard Spencer, who, along with the alt-right movement on 4chan were actively promoting that hand sign.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The White Power symbol isn't the same. It's similar to the 'OK' sign with the index finger and thumb touching, but the remaining fingers are deliberately splayed out to represent a 'W' with the index finger, thumb and forearm representing the 'P' spelling out the initials for White Power.

And "this kid" was specifically working for Stephen Miller who has many strong ties to white supremacists like Richard Spencer, who, along with the alt-right movement on 4chan were actively promoting that hand sign.

This. Showing other people mid gesture is NOT the same as someone posing for a picture flashing the WP sign. Just because you guys haven’t heard about it doesn’t mean it’s not real. My redneck/skin head cousin has been doing this gesture for many years. It’s sickening. I’m biracial (black/white).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The White Power symbol isn't the same. It's similar to the 'OK' sign with the index finger and thumb touching, but the remaining fingers are deliberately splayed out to represent a 'W' with the index finger, thumb and forearm representing the 'P' spelling out the initials for White Power.

And "this kid" was specifically working for Stephen Miller who has many strong ties to white supremacists like Richard Spencer, who, along with the alt-right movement on 4chan were actively promoting that hand sign.

You mean like this?


Or this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The White Power symbol isn't the same. It's similar to the 'OK' sign with the index finger and thumb touching, but the remaining fingers are deliberately splayed out to represent a 'W' with the index finger, thumb and forearm representing the 'P' spelling out the initials for White Power.

And "this kid" was specifically working for Stephen Miller who has many strong ties to white supremacists like Richard Spencer, who, along with the alt-right movement on 4chan were actively promoting that hand sign.

This. Showing other people mid gesture is NOT the same as someone posing for a picture flashing the WP sign. Just because you guys haven’t heard about it doesn’t mean it’s not real. My redneck/skin head cousin has been doing this gesture for many years. It’s sickening. I’m biracial (black/white).

Exactly.

It was all about the context. Even if "this kid" didn't really mean anything by the gesture it still looks terrible given his co-workers and Trump's history with "very fine people".

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

The White Power symbol isn't the same. It's similar to the 'OK' sign with the index finger and thumb touching, but the remaining fingers are deliberately splayed out to represent a 'W' with the index finger, thumb and forearm representing the 'P' spelling out the initials for White Power.

And "this kid" was specifically working for Stephen Miller who has many strong ties to white supremacists like Richard Spencer, who, along with the alt-right movement on 4chan were actively promoting that hand sign.

This. Showing other people mid gesture is NOT the same as someone posing for a picture flashing the WP sign. Just because you guys haven’t heard about it doesn’t mean it’s not real. My redneck/skin head cousin has been doing this gesture for many years. It’s sickening. I’m biracial (black/white).

Exactly.

It was all about the context. Even if "this kid" didn't really mean anything by the gesture it still looks terrible given his co-workers and Trump's history with "very fine people".

You sound eerily similar to a Tea Party lunatic calling Obama a Kenyan Muslim due to "bowing" or whatever it was that brought about that conspiracy theory.

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^ Nope, not really. There never was anything of substance to ever actually merit the "Obama is a secret Kenyan Muslim" thing other than the feverish delusions of the Alex Jones crowd who feasted on the fact that Obama wasn't white and had a foreign-sounding name. I recall the right wing nutjobs also accused him of being a "secret communist" while at the same time whining about how he was an "elite" who was "in bed with Wall Street." Complete logic fail, and demonstrates just how delusional they really are.

Whereas, there are actual emails and other things that directly connect Stephen Miller to Spencer and the white supremacist alt-right movement.

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It's interesting that Jeff will delete other threads with inaccurate titles and not this one. The article itself says that the claim is not unquestionable. The sign is certainly not "notorious" and anyone searching for an ok hand sign on an image search will find a huge number.

Interestingly, I discovered the ok sign has also been accused of being satanic, because apparently it forms the hand into a "6" standing for 666.

OP is clearly prejudiced against hand signs, and the ok sign has had more than its fair share of maligners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that Jeff will delete other threads with inaccurate titles and not this one. The article itself says that the claim is not unquestionable. The sign is certainly not "notorious" and anyone searching for an ok hand sign on an image search will find a huge number.

Interestingly, I discovered the ok sign has also been accused of being satanic, because apparently it forms the hand into a "6" standing for 666.

OP is clearly prejudiced against hand signs, and the ok sign has had more than its fair share of maligners.

Yup. He didn't delete it, but he sure took issue when someone referred to the criminal alien with seven arrests as Kate Steinle's killer.