Army cadet(s) flash white power sign on national television at football game.

[dutch508]

Star Member Grasswire2 (5,604 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212783247

Army cadet(s) flash white power sign on national television at football game.

  This Shit Again?????

Star Member Grasswire2 (5,604 posts)

1. looks like more than one cadet doing so.

Should be immediately dismissed from the corps.

 

Star Member Hoyt (40,596 posts)

4. When you look at the video, it's clearly obvious it's not innocent.

I’ve seen other instances where I’m convinced it’s just someone holding their hand awkwardly or flipping some crud off their finger.

This loser did it on purpose. March him out of school.

says the DU-er who open hates the military... Hey, Hoyt.... Go **** yourself.

Star Member marble falls (25,782 posts)

10. No doubt in my mind: there will be consequences. The Army has seriously cracked down on this crap ..

in the last year or so.

Of course the Middies would never do such a thing in any circumspect.

 

jmowreader (41,923 posts)

40. I hope they are called back

They all need to be formally drummed out of the Corps of Cadets - yes, with actual drums - then shipped straight to Fort Jackson to be sent to basic training, just like they'd never been associated with the military at all. After that, they can be given the shittiest jobs the Army has...MOS 92R Shower, Laundry and Clothing Repair Specialist, 92Y Unit Supply Specialist, 92M Mortuary Affairs Specialist and 92G Food Service Specialist sound like four perfect jobs for these individuals.

sweetloukillbot (2,126 posts)

17. Or is that the "Circle Game"?

Where they make that sign where if you look at it, you're the asshole?

My boss and some of the people on my team at work do it as a prank thing. Annoying, and not really something a military cadet should do, but not racist.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/circle-game/

Star Member Grasswire2 (5,604 posts)

22. you'd better tell your boss that the hand sign is widely recognized as a white power symbol

...because someone is likely to put out his lights for displaying it.

sweetloukillbot (2,126 posts)

41. It isn't though...

The white power symbol is an OK symbol, not an upside down OK symbol.
I'm the first person to call it out when it's an OK symbol.
This isn't.

Actually, the OK symbol isn't a white power sign either.   really..... it isn't.

zackymilly (491 posts)

31. Several of my co-workers in our shop do the same thing.

They try to get each other to look down at their hand and then start laughing. They do it to me too. I can't wait to tell them the other meaning of this on Monday, since several of them who do this are people of color.
We've had group photos done onsite, and we've had to take them over because there would be someone doing this with their hand in the photo.

Star Member cwydro (34,766 posts)

66. No offense, but I find it mind-boggling that grown people play such a juvenile game at work.

It sounds like a schoolboy thing.

 

LittleBunny (22 posts)

36. It's the circle game, not white power.

Jesus people. Get a grip! It's a silly game that adolescent boys play.

Star Member Blue_true (18,967 posts)

43. White supremacists have corrupted the sign.

It also used to mean "A ok, we're good", but no longer. A person that uses it has to explain themselves, maybe that is the corner that white supremacists wanted to force us into. I have no idea how we take back the symbol and once again make it mean the historical meanings.

Wiki:
Since the 1980s, the OK gesture has been the key feature of the popular school prank, "the circle game". A person initiating the game makes the gesture below their own waistline and tries to trick an opponent into looking at it. If the person looks at it, the maker of the gesture punches the opponent in the arm.[37] Variations exist where a player who can insert their own index finger into the circle without looking at it may punch the circle-maker.[38] In November 2000, the gesture gained widespread use when the circle game was a plot feature in an episode of the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle.[39] In a much earlier version (1950's), the circle was placed over the maker's elbow, or any body part.

In 2017, users on the message-board site 4chan[40][41][42] aimed to convince the media that the OK gesture was being used as a white power movement symbol.[40][43] According to The Boston Globe, users on 4chan's /pol/ ("Politically Incorrect") board were instructed in February 2017 to "flood Twitter and other social media websites...claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy," as part of a campaign dubbed "Operation O-KKK".[37]

Star Member RazBerryBeret (2,863 posts)

58. nah

it's just the W and the P regardless of the direction. the only way to get it "pointing up" (in this scenario) would be to squat lower than the person in front of you and hold it up. try it...

 

AncientGeezer (1,714 posts)

55. It's not "white power" ...it's a piss off Us sign....it's on purpose

They are doing this to jerk our chain...

no shite



BTW... **** Navy.

Army 7- Navy 31

 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Thanks for posting this, Dutch.  Was perusing the DUmp right as the game was starting and noticed their panties were in quite a bunch.  Nothing is sillier than implying this hand gesture is about white power.

[freedumb2003b]

AncientGeezer (1,714 posts)

55. It's not "white power" ...it's a piss off Us sign....it's on purpose

They are doing this to jerk our chain...

And it worked.  You guys are so dumb it is really easy.

[SVPete]

AncientGeezer (1,714 posts)

55. It's not "white power" ...it's a piss off Us sign....it's on purpose

They are doing this to jerk our chain...

1. I doubt they were thinking political or ideological at the time, but,

2. If they were, the 55th respondent in this DU thread probably "got it". The 55th!            And DU-grade Progs swallowed their bait, hook and all!  

[Wineslob]

Thanks for posting this, Dutch.  Was perusing the DUmp right as the game was starting and noticed their panties were in quite a bunch.  Nothing is sillier than implying this hand gesture is about white power.

You must not be woke...

[Ralph Wiggum]

You must not be woke...

Don't be a woke scold!

[freedumb2003b]

Don't be a woke scold!

Have a toke, find yourself woke.

[thundley4]

After that, they can be given the shittiest jobs the Army has...MOS 92R Shower, Laundry and Clothing Repair Specialist, 92Y Unit Supply Specialist, 92M Mortuary Affairs Specialist and 92G Food Service Specialist sound like four perfect jobs for these individuals.

And everyone of those jobs are more dignified than being a welfare mooch/leech on society like most DUmmies are.

[SVPete]

And everyone of those jobs are more dignified than being a welfare mooch/leech on society like most DUmmies are.

And a lot more necessary!

[Delmar]

Response to Grasswire2 (Original post)Sat Dec 14, 2019, 07:08 PM
Star Member Blue_true (18,967 posts)
25. Oh well, there goes their careers. Hope they know how to run back holes (no insult to people that

do, it's good, honest work).

Back holes?  This shitgibbon is probably babbling about a backhoe, but who knows?  Hard telling, but operating a backhoe is honest work so the primitives naturally attach a stigma to it.

[Crazy Horse]

This Shit Again?????


 


BTW... **** Navy.

Army 7- Navy 31

 

 

Though better than the Army 0-Navy 34

[ADsOutburst]

LOL, all this outrage because they can't admit to being hoaxed by 4chan, or because they only know what left-wing sources tell them.

[Mary Ann]

Back holes?  This shitgibbon is probably babbling about a backhoe, but who knows?  Hard telling, but operating a backhoe is honest work so the primitives naturally attach a stigma to it.

DUpipo are obsessed with "back holes."

[FiddyBeowulf]

LOL, all this outrage because they can't admit to being hoaxed by 4chan, or because they only know what left-wing sources tell them.

Yes.

[Ralph Wiggum]

In the "well, DUH" file:

Cadets who were accused of signaling a white supremacist hand signal at the annual Army-Navy football game have been cleared of wrongdoing. West Point released a report today that states cadets were playing the "circle game," where players attempt to get one another to look at the "OK" hand gesture and then deliver a punch if others look.

"The evidence strongly supports a finding that the cadets were playing the 'circle game,' an internationally recognized game in which people attempt to trick someone else into looking at an okay-like hand gesture below the waist."

The internet exploded with allegations that the three cadets had purposefully made the "OK" symbol, characterized by the Anti-Defamation League as a hate symbol.



https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigation-clears-west-point-cadets-of-white-supremacy-allegation

[I_B_Perky]

AncientGeezer (1,714 posts)

55. It's not "white power" ...it's a piss off Us sign....it's on purpose

They are doing this to jerk our chain...

My mole?  You decide!!!!   

[zeitgeist]

This just in at DU headquarters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cPiWulJJpM

 

[Ptarmigan]

South Carolina Democrat facing backlash after Army, Navy personnel cleared of 'white power' hand-signal allegations
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/south-carolina-rep-silent-on-naval-cadets-being-cleared-in-white-power-investigation-after-accusing-them-of-racism

A Democratic state lawmaker from South Carolina was facing backlash Saturday from critics who accused her of going silent after previously accusing Army and Navy personnel of being "cruel and disrespectful" at last weekend's Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia.

In a since-deleted tweet, state Rep. Mandy Powers Norrell wrote, “Three separate candidates making the white power symbol on television. Wonder what the culture is like for the cadet in the front? There’s no excuse and he and other minorities there shouldn’t have to deal with such a cruel and disrespectful environment.”

But since her tweet appeared, U.S. Military Academy cadets and U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen have been cleared of wrongdoing in separate military investigations.

Talk about triggered! 

Her Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/MPowersNorrell

It is getting flooded.

[SVPete]

South Carolina Democrat facing backlash after Army, Navy personnel cleared of 'white power' hand-signal allegations
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/south-carolina-rep-silent-on-naval-cadets-being-cleared-in-white-power-investigation-after-accusing-them-of-racism

Talk about triggered! 

Her Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/MPowersNorrell

It is getting flooded.

Race-baiters like her won't "get it" when facts contradict them. So they need repeated verbal and written smack-downs. Maybe they'll get it, but at least those who won't get known for what they are. As Mad Maxine illustrates, there are constituencies that want race-baiting, but they and their constituencies become self-isolating and self-hell-holing.

Did DUpipo angrily dismiss the service academies' findings? Or just move on to the next fauxrage?

[Ptarmigan]

Race-baiters like her won't "get it" when facts contradict them. So they need repeated verbal and written smack-downs. Maybe they'll get it, but at least those who won't get known for what they are. As Mad Maxine illustrates, there are constituencies that want race-baiting, but they and their constituencies become self-isolating and self-hell-holing.

Did DUpipo angrily dismiss the service academies' findings? Or just move on to the next fauxrage?

Move to the next fauxrage.