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So what does that one mean?
So, you are marginalizing the context of this incident by applying it to other tangential situations - an attempt at a false equivalence. Unlike the UFO phenomenon, and especially aliens:
1. The human that made the symbols allegedly exists
2. This was done on live TV
3. There were witnesses, including supervisors and commanding officers
4. The use of this hand gesture is something that has been documented as being used for projections of white supremacy by many different non-government organizations - the origin, rationale and operation of the phenomena (no matter how green to the public) is well documented.
UFOs and aliens are part of conspiracy theory - because it is theorized that there is a conspiracy to hide the nature of these entities and objects from the general public.
What on earth are you on about? This wasn't some attempt at equivalency between the two situations, but to say that the rationale "X agency/institution is investigating this, therefore it means there's something to it" is a pretty bad attempt to appeal to authority, since similar official or semi-official investigations have gone on into other things that are much more obviously conspiracy theories. I assume that the investigation is going on into this matter because the authorities don't know whether it 'means' something or not. That's not the same as saying "This means X because it can."
So what does that one mean?
It's a Texas Aggie symbol/long horn symbol, but it also a symbol in magic and the occult that does not mean anything pedestrian.
Hook 'em horns!
It's an old world superstitious gesture popularized at least in part by Ronnie James Dio, who learned it from his grandmother.
BBC News - Dio's two-finger gesture - what does it mean?
It's an old world superstitious gesture popularized at least in part by Ronnie James Dio, who learned it from his grandmother.
BBC News - Dio's two-finger gesture - what does it mean?
It take it that you don't follow college football.......
UT (whose team is named the Longhorns) was using that hand sign back in the 50s, over twenty years before Dio started using it.
In college football, it don't mean what you think it means, nor does it mean what Dio's granny thought it meant.I'm sure Dio's grandmother was using it before then. :-D
What a bunch of "WOKE," madness!
This is what postmodernism gets you.
This is also why The Left ends up eating The Left!
Lunch is served whoever is the wokest wins!
It took the Holocaust to change the swastika from a worldwide symbol of good luck to a symbol of hate.
Nowadays it took the left about a month, plus some boredom, to follow 4chans orders precisely.
4chan pulled the prank because they saw that the left-run media kept instantly believing anything that seemed to make America/Americans/White people/men/anybody/anything more racist. It worked completely. "OK" has never been and is not a racist symbol.
But the left keeps asserting it is because they are obedient slaves to the nonsense orders they get from their own masters.
They are incapable of admitting that they've been had and they look stupid, so their media keeps inventing its own "evidence" that it can use to save face. No wonder why the left sought to own the media. It's so useful.
It started in early 2017 as a hoax. Some users of 4chan, an anonymous and unrestricted online message board, began what they called “Operation O-KKK,” to see if they could trick the wider world — and especially liberals and the mainstream media — into believing that the innocuous gesture was actually a clandestine symbol of white power.
“We must flood twitter and other social media websites with spam, claiming that the OK hand signal is a symbol of white supremacy,” one of the users posted, going on to suggest that everyone involved create fake social media accounts “with basic white girl names” to propagate the notion as widely as possible.
The 4chan hoax succeeded all too well, and ceased being a hoax: Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen and other white nationalists began using the gesture in public to signal their presence and to spot potential sympathizers and recruits. For them, the letters formed by the hand were not O and K, but W and P, for “white power.”
The gesture is not the only symbol to have been appropriated and swiftly weaponized by alt-right internet trolls. The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified memes featuring the hoax religion of Kek and the cartoon character Pepe the Frog, among others, as being at the forefront of white nationalists’ efforts to distract and infuriate liberals.
When the O.K. Sign Is No Longer O.K.
This is "woke" enough to be investigated by West Point, and the US Naval Academy. You may dismiss it, but the military does not tolerate this kind of behavior - which is why there is an investigation.
Sush. You'll ruin the joke.The "hand signal" is not a symbol of white power. It is a joke that originated on 4chan meant to make people believe that it is a symbol of white power. It is flashed in public, especially in front of the media, as a means of triggering a reaction from those who have taken the bait.
The cadets in the pictures were in on the joke.
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