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LEFT WING LOONS Title: Cubs investigating fan allegedly flashing ‘white power’ sign behind NBC Sports reporter Chicago Cubs Cubs President of Business Operations Crane Kenney said in a statement released early this morning that the club is investigating a fan using what appeared to be a hand gesture associated with the white power movement while NBC Sports Chicago reporter Doug Glanville did a TV segment in front of him. The statement: We are currently investigating an incident that occurred during the Cubs May 7 broadcast on NBC Sports Chicago while reporter Doug Glanville was on the air. An individual seated behind Mr. Glanville used what appears to be an offensive hand gesture associated with racism. Such ignorant and repulsive behavior is not tolerated at Wrigley Field. We are reviewing the incident thoroughly because no one should be subjected to this type of offensive behavior. Any derogatory conduct should be reported immediately to our ballpark staff. Any individual behaving in this manner will not only be removed from the ballpark, but will be permanently banned from Wrigley Field. The incident can be seen from the fan in the gray sweatshirt here: Its worth noting that this gesture is . . . a somewhat complicated one. While the Cubs are properly investigating this, the full context of it and all that surrounds it is worth appreciating before reaching a conclusion on the matter. As explained here by the Anti-Defamation league, that OK-style gesture was originally cast as a white power symbol as a trolling hoax by some associated with the alt-right movement. The idea: lots of people make OK symbols on camera and, if enough people believed it actually meant white power, people who are not engaging in racist behavior would be accused of doing so, thereby undermining legitimate claims of racism as liberal hysteria or people crying wolf. Then a funny thing happened: actual white supremacists started adopting the gesture, allegedly ironically. Irony sort of fails, however, when the person acting ironically in this way is, in fact, a white supremacist. Mostly because we are what we do, even if we think were acting in such a way ironically or even if were trying to muddy the waters in some effort to lean-in to a some group identity or belief system. As such, if someone who is cognizant of all of this stuff flashes this symbol as a joke, its still an offensive act. It is also worth noting that the symbol flashed here is also similar to the so-called circle game with which most people who attended middle school at one time or another are familiar. Kind of a made you look thing. Which, in addition to the common OK symbol, was something the trolls who created the originally phony white power narrative were trying to make people confuse for racism. Which means that the Cubs have layers upon layers of garbage to sift through, basically. Which also means that, even if the context in which the symbol was used behind a black reporter where it would obviously be seen by TV viewers is certainly troubling and is worthy of investigation by the Cubs, we should exercise at least some caution before making a definitive determination about what this fan was doing and why.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
C'mon. It's an upside-down shadow bunny:
Them racist bastards! Just because their hand is white you just assume it means white power!?!? No! its the international call for ho's!!! Must be a dumb progressive white person because us brothers know that sign well!!!!!
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