• Coast guard removed for 'white power sign' 👌
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Also in this case they do it specifically because Trump does it, and unlike that weird thing he does with his lips it has an emoji so it's easy to write.
Can't wait for some group to misuse hand shakes and high fives, and have them become the next hate symbol.
So fucking stupid.. Man gets his life ripped up because of some stupid fucking meme.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnJ7cuWWsAAojuJ.jpg be sure to memorize all the racist hand signs
what if "nazis" co-opt your name? by your logic, you should be punished for it. nazis are doing something so innocent people should be punished for it, right?
Tbh it looks like the guy was trying to sneak in "the hole" from that stupid game where if you look at it they get to punch you. I remember some cops got busted over that not too long ago and it was reported on this forum. Honestly this is so dumb it wouldn't even be worth reporting over if people didn't force associate it with white power. Hell I doubt anyone would associate it with white power if a handful of news outlets weren't shouting up and down the halls that it is now.
Welcome to Military Leadership 101, how may I fuck you over?
Nice background pic
Still completely ridiculous.
I'm reading his quote in the "police that moostache" officer's voice from generation kill
I had no idea this was now considered a white power sign
It's not. It's one of 4chan's "let's make a ridiculous claim and see how many people are dumb enough to believe it" ops.
Doesn't matter that it's not really racist. If other people take offense to it and his action potentially (or actively) brings discredit to the USCG, brass will always side with the public. Whose career are you putting on the chopping block, his or yours? He was a contractor —the government knows they can replace him with any of the other thousands desperate to take his job.
oh fuck off. Do you ever have anything constructive to say? And frankly, that is dumb as hell (thus the box). Especially for something as benign as this.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/249/757/858.jpg_large
Thank god they managed to blow the cover of another non-racist and get him fired from his employment. We can all sleep at night knowing all the real racists are still out there.
https://babylonbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/obama_ok.jpg man just look at that white supremicist go, how could we let society slip to this level?
I'm sorry, I'll try to better follow the wonderful example you've set for me here.
It looks like 'guy scratches himself in a way the internet finds vaguely worrying' is a major headline?
The nazis want us to go crazy and the appropriation of the hand symbol is intended for this purpose. https://youtu.be/Sx4BVGPkdzk?t=1080
It stops being a "troll" attempt when it's actually used by Nazis. Which it has been. Stop pulling this garbage cop-out, they literally want you to believe this.
As far as I know there's no counter tactic so denying it exists at all is a cop out but pursuing it is also kind of a fool's errand.
how is it dumb you don't get to choose whether others are offended. if people were offended by the actions of a contractor, no matter how "benign" the gesture is, that contractor is getting booted. military or not, a company isn't going to keep a contractor employed if they've embarrassed themselves and their agency on live television
cant wait for people to start thinking the V for victory/peace hand sign is some fucken right wing symbol
Yes. Yes. The OK sign is a legitimate nazi symbol now. Also anything coming out of 4chan is now nazi. Anything 4chan touches is nazi. Shit I think I'm a nazi.
Mods please ban @EmperorScorpious His avatar is offensive, probably. I don't know what it could be, but you should ban him, because it could be.
itt people who have never held a corporate job before if people perceive ur meme hands as racist, with or without 4chans help, feel free to use them at the peril of ur job when broadcasted on public television and representing that organization. u can definitely cry about it online when ur collecting unemployment
That's not even remotely what he was saying. I probably should've started this post with "fuck off" or something, would that have made it better? Still trying to learn how to post from you.
Have you seriously never seen the fucking OK symbol before? Christ almighty. I guess it's time to chop off our hands because they may make a motion that some crybaby thinks is offensive.
Yeah, no. It's a fucking troll attempt. Only reason actual "nazis" may be using it is because people like you let them. It's fucking pepe all over again. Some idiot says "this thing is bad because bad people use it" without any citation. Other idiots say "oh wow this thing is bad because this guy told me bad people use it". Rational people go "you're pulling this out of your fucking ass", to which idiots reply "you're just saying that because you're one of those bad people". And then actual bad people go "whoa, everyone's saying that this thing belongs to us now, let's use it!", after which the idiots go "See? The bad people are using the thing, we were right all along!" This story's been told and retold over and over again since fucking Gamergate, at the very least. And it's people like YOU who keep perpetuating it. Ever stop to think "hey, maybe the nazis wouldn't be so big a threat if we stopped believing that every single innocuous thing was actually a nazi thing?"
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