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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People defending this are no different than silent or complicit Germans in 1933.[/quote]

OMG.  Seek therapy.[/quote]

What for?  PP is correct.[/quote]

+1, and I'm not a hysterical leftie or a 22yo.  I am one of the "olds" these young'uns keep referring to.  You missed the operative phrase in the ADL's writeup:

'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[b] unless the context of its use provides additional evidence to support such a finding[/b].

I think we can assume that when a bunch of white nationalists are all using the gesture at their events and on SM that they have appropriated a commonly innocuous social gesture as a signal to one another, and that when a WH intern uses it instead of a thumbs up (as everyone else did) that he knows just what he is doing.  The context of the use in this case does indeed provide evidence of racist or extremist intent, IMO.  OP is 100% correct.  The alt-right knows EXACTLY what they are doing by using a common gesture like this - making it palatable, and defensible, and deniable.  And when these punk ass bitches use it, they should be called on it.  I have no doubt this intern is one of said punk ass bitches.  Just wait - he'll be the next Richard Spencer or Stephen Miller in 5 years.[/quote]

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