cadets making the White power sign at Army Navy game.............

[riversedge]

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Corey Richardson
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Imagine the uproar if a group of black Midshipmen were throwing up gang signs and we’re gonna need that same energy with these folks making the white power hand gesture. This is a sign of the times.

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[jberryhill]

1. Trump will protect them

You wonder where the SS came from?

You’re looking at them.

Scum.

[dem4decades]

2. Integration was the pride of the US military. Trump destroys everything.

[Phoenix61]

3. They need to be kicked out immediately

No reason to waste a free education on two POSs.

[regnaD kciN]

31. I'm sure that the academies will investigate and determine...

...that none of those students were intending a "white power" sign, but that it was some completely-harmless "in-joke" among the service academies (which they'll never explain, of course). By the end, the media will be groveling in apology to those poor innocent cadets and middies, just like they did with that parochial high-school kid who was photographed smirking at the Native American elder.

[dewsgirl]

4. Currently an epic take down is occurring in my notifications on Twitter.

Two of my fabulous female followers, are brilliantly arguing with a misogynistic asshole, that tried to defend this crap.

[Cattledog]

5. Have they been identified yet?

[BigmanPigman]

6. Personally, I think that sign looks like an asshole.

It is fitting that an asshole is flashing an "asshole-esque" sign.

[dem4decades]

7. Could Condoleezza and Colin Powell finally stand up and condemn this?

Or does being a Republican trump being a minority?

[Cattledog]

9. yeah OK

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[Cattledog]

11. Here's the Christchurch killer.

Quit defending racists.

[Demonaut]

14. it is the circle game, someone reported a post that stated this and it was removed..wtf!

[Dennis Donovan]

23. No, NOT the Circle Game

I know the circle game - a thing me mates an I played in our teens. The Circle Game requires a protagonist and an antagonist. There is no antagonist visible in any of the photos.

This is White Power nonsense...

[cwydro]

37. No, this isn't some stupid childish game.

These are grown men who will be in positions of power in the military eventually.

[marble falls]

15. You're defending this? What do you think they really were signalling?

[Demonaut]

16. defending the circle game?

[obamanut2012]

34. JFC stop with the Circle Game

That isn't what this is.

[dhol82]

13. It's a joke for adolescents.

Not for members of the service academies.
They will be reprimanded for this.

[TheFourthMind]

17. I just assumed it was a symbol relating to caucasian masturbation. n/t

[zaj]

18. That is a nationally televised Coca-Cola paid Ad!

They need to speak out and forcefully confirm this and demand accountability from ESPN, US Army, West Point and the soldiers.

[CaptYossarian]

20. The same Coca-Cola I've boycotted since their involvement with So African Apartheid?

Can't be!

I think they're hoping someday to drive tanks through Ferguson the next time there's unrest. They were auditioning for future police state jobs (not state police jobs).

[gordianot]

19. Watch any Trump speech he does this constantly.

[crickets]

21. All they had to do was stand there for sixty seconds or so,

and look presentable and respectable. That's all they had to do, and they couldn't do it.

"Oh, it was just the circle game!" Not helping anyone's case here. Last time I checked that game (college in the '80s) it was on the lewd side. If other people have innocent versions, okay fine. Regardless, that was not the time to play.

"Oh, it's just the okay sign!" Sorry, nope. Okay sign is usually held up near to your own face - and unfortunately this symbol has been appropriated. Whether we like it or not, it's no longer as innocent as it used to be.

"But it's just a 4chan prank!" It used to be a 4chan prank. Not anymore.

"I didn't know, so they didn't know!" Really? Come on.

Given today's political climate, I don't think anyone from West Point or the Naval Academy should be giving any of us reason to doubt them on the issue. Do you?

[Demovictory9]

22. postings on westpoint twitter - read the comments

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[regnaD kciN]

29. "Although we are rivals on the field..."

"...we will continue to stand together for white supremacy."

[LArider]

24. This is dumb

We need to find something better to outrage about.

[mahina]

26. Welcome to DU.

Please elaborate on how dumb it is to hold white power advocates like this to account.

[LArider]

35. You know

this whole "hand signal is racist" thing is gag started by 4chan right?

[Aristus]

38. It's not a gag anymore. It's the real thing.

It's like saying "The swastika is a positive sun sign!"

It used to be. Not since it was appropriated by white supremacists. And everyone who uses that sign knows what he is doing. There is no ignorance on the subject.


And anyway, is a military cadet spreading a 4chan sign really any better?

[Flaleftist]

32. There's plenty to choose from. Browse the OPs and take your pick.

There may be more pressing issues for us to deal with, but that doesn't mean displays of racism by people in positions of power should be ignored.

[Ex Lurker]

25. Meanwhile, here's the Coastal Carolina dance team

[regnaD kciN]

30. In fairness, I think that's supposed to be a rooster-head...

...since Chanticleer the rooster is the school's mascot. Notice how the thumb and forefinger come together in a point, rather than forming a circle, and the other three fingers are spread further apart, like a cock's comb.

[LanternWaste]

33. Meanwhile, ignore obvious context...

[Cha]

27. StupidASS brainwashed cadets.. a danger to themselves

to be so brainwashed and fucking Stupid.

[Sea Glass]

28. I hope these little Nazi shits get doxxed

and pay the consequences.

[cwydro]

36. Has anything been done so far that we know about?

I don’t feel hopeful.