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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
we are becoming too stupid to survive. the ok sign is racist now? i hadn’t even heard that. Why not?
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Sometimes the ok means ok and sometimes it means something else.
The "stupid" people in charge of the USNA, WP and the CG all believe sometimes it means something else.
The Coast Guard has formally reprimanded a member with 23 years in uniform for flashing a hand gesture tied to white supremacists during a live TV interview featuring his boss.
He was upbraided in an administrative letter of censure signed by Capt. John Reed, the head of Hurricane Florence response efforts in Charleston, South Carolina, when the unnamed officer formed the “OK” hand signal during MSNBC’s Sept. 14 “Live with Ali Velshi" broadcast.
That sparked an explosion of outrage on social media because the symbol has become linked recently to white supremacists and ethnic nationalists, even if it’s long been associated with signaling that everything’s fine, too.
West Point, Annapolis Officials Investigating Possible ‘White Power’ Hand Sign
Army and Navy officials try to determine meaning of hand signs that service academy personnel appeared to use on national TV during Army-Navy football game
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