Whether they saw it live or someone told him about it what difference does it make? None at all. If it wasn't a known symbol they wouldn't have investigated. Using your logic the Coast Guard shouldn't've investigated. They did investigate and they punished one of their Cadets for the same exact symbol.
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actually it doesn't it now has known racist connotations in addition to what it meant years ago and evidently also has use in a game the kids in Jim's neighborhood play.
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You sound like a crazy person try to get a grip
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He will be 👌
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..

And you sound like a snarky person who is always trying to deny racism.

not really...there was no racism involved....it's in your head

There was in the CG case and the WP & NA. Admin. thought they needed to look into it.

You constantly get your panties in a bunch whenever anything is posted dealing with racism.

kiss all over the country are playing it. that’s what the cadets were doing. It’s called the circle game.

I saw some guy tying a knot in a rope, should we investigate him to see if he’s in the klan, planning a lynching?
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no. but getting a bit tired of
endless and baseless charges of racism from your side. It never stops, and we never wait for the facts. Ask that Sandman kid. Or the duke lacrosse teams.

It never stops. Even a baby eventually learns not to touch a hot stove. Liberals never, ever learn.

There’s racism that needs to be rooted out. But not everyone who presents any kind of political threat to democrats, is a Klansman.
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no I don't

paul would

Paul and his like occasionally base their very existence as a platform for racism. They can find it anywhere and are only to anxious to accuse others of such. It seems like a desperate lifestyle to me. I hope next year that the world and Santa does not have to deal with these boys who cry wolf. Merry Christmas
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Is the knot a known racist symbol?

See - nothing but snarky comments.

God forbid you get a pair of Doc Martins for Christmas, that should trigger an immediate investigation.
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right. so it’s used for
multiple things. but when heroic, selfless kids who answer the call to serve the nation do it, your side assumes the worst possible
motive. And when they’re cleared of doing anything wrong, no one apologizes, and for damn sure no one learns any kind of lesson. Because your side can’t win the debate of ideas ( when your ideas are open borders, free everything, and abortion until age 10), so everything is a personal attack.
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Look at the CG - someone made the symbol and the admin. decided that the heroic, selfless kid who answered the call to serve the nation made a racist symbol and assumed the worst possible motive - why don't you contact them or your congressman to complain instead of complaining on a fishing website?

some would say so....

you’re not whining on a fishing website too?
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Every Single One Of You Posting on this thread has used the OK sign 10, 20, 50 times yer year? Hundreds for some of you? Thousand in some trades? Multiply that by your age so tens of thousands of OK symbols? You must ALLLLLL be racists.

This is like the Woke Bullsh!t Bingo Game runamok. How many perceived co-opted racist microaggressions can we find?

This is effing out of control.


And it is silly to have to have an investigation every time the Woke Mob sees a perceived threat.

This is like reporting on your neighbors STALINIST style.

The admin decided to investigate because the WokeMob demanded it.

Bury your head in the sand. I guess marching w/tiki torches is ok bc gidget went to a beach party in 1960 and there were tiki torches there.

dude...where did you get the drugs????

He adds nothing but hate and vitriolic posturing.
A POS like Paul is the reason why wa need a Presidential correction.
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snarky, snarky, snarky

Do you still use the term colored or retard?

Mr. irrelevant. :rotf2:

never

Classy guy.

well, there are like 147 genders so probably at least that many micro-aggressions too...we call this progress

No sand, Paul. You are the one brushing some cadets as Tiki Torch carriers.


Met Paul numerous times, not a POS at all. Difference in position, yes, POS not at all.

POS means "Pal On SB"

Will just leave this here...

it's all a grand conspiracy against white people.is that it? . nothing in a conservatives world can mean more than one thing..?

So the ok sign can't be used by white supremacists and still be used as intended as ok or (I am all right )


https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/...ght-wing-troll


Dismissing the spread of the hand signal as a hoax overlooks two hard realities: first, that its increasing use gives open license to actual racist ideologues to operate and recruit under the cover of the “plausible deniability” established by less ideological young trolls; and second, that any kind of wink-and-nudge interaction with the racist right is a direct route to its normalization.

Are they still words in the English language?
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sure they are. I've heard them used.

So you think things have changed and what may have been appropriate years ago may not be appropriate today?

John and TDF are not anyone's idea of hard-core right wingers. Yet they got frustrated at the knee jerk reaction of the left to label these kids racists, and then not apologize after they were exonerated.

The lefties here who are angry or don't get where John and TDF are coming from, you are a big part of why Trump is president. You just don't get it, and you have learned absolutely nothing from the 2016 election. CNN was merciless in branding these kids as white supremacists. You're all doing everything you can, to help Trump get re elected.

I call it like I see it.
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No, just a temper tantrum from the left in response to getting creamed in an election they thought was in the bag.

I'll tell the superintendant in my town that all the schools need to be investigated, because at every single bus stop, you'll see 8 year-olds playing the same exact circle game that these kids were playing. What deplorable racists.

1) Presumption of innocence.
2) The significant majority of people are not racists.
3) Why are you assisting a bunch of asshats in co-opting normal speech and symbology. You are doing their work for them. Eff 'em, I am reclaiming my OK sign.

Yes, it is the righties on this site who resort to childless insults and vile comments. Look at your typical post vs the typical "lefty" post and tell me who is the angry one here?

The admin. said they needed to look into the symbols and based on what the cadets said (that it was part of a game) didn't punish them. The CG had the same issue and determined the cadet in their case was using it as a racist symbol. It is not a knee jerk reaction to view a symbol that racists use as a racist symbol.