The people at 4Chan who came up with the whole “throwing the OK sign is white power” to troll the media get an A+ for their success
Possible ‘white power’ hand signs at Army-Navy game probed
The Army and Navy academies are looking into hand signs flashed by students that can be associated with “white power” and were televised during the Army-Navy football game on Saturday, school officials said.
Cadets at West Point and midshipmen at the Naval Academy in the stands both appeared to display the sign during the broadcast, officials with the two military academies told The Wall Street Journal. The gesture was seen during an ESPN broadcast segment.
School officials are trying to determine what the hand signals were meant to convey, they said.
“We’re looking into it,†Lt. Col. Chris Ophardt, a spokesperson for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York, told the Journal. “I don’t know what their intention is.â€
“We are aware and will be looking into it,†said Cmdr. Alana Garas, a spokesperson for the U.S. Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland.
It’s the Circle Game (which, apparently, Jesus played).
That’s the “OK” sign. It’s also used as a meme. It’s not a white power symbol. If so, then Obama is a white supremacist.
See how stupid it is? The grounds of which people have laid out the idea of the sign being used as a white power symbol is on 4chan. It’s a joke. pic.twitter.com/bUFdBBOq8O— Jend (@MrDeJend) December 15, 2019
The more people whine about this, the more people will do it where cameras can catch it, and everyone who caught it should punch themselves in the shoulder. This was started as a hoax to see how desperate the media was and how little integrity journalists have. The idea being to put forth claims with shaky evidence that wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny to convince news outlets and reporters of fake stories or developments. The fact the journalists actually found the thread where this plan was concocted with hard evidence that it was all a hoax and still ran with the story is very telling.
I see breathless stories in the USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, HuffPost, and many others to go with the AP article above. These people are stupid.
That's pretty neat https://t.co/64JUtuKXth pic.twitter.com/k2uQXrpta2
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) December 15, 2019
