Banned for life after white power sign flashed.

Wonder if WWE superstar JBL will be taken down for doing this 15 years ago

Everyone knows the sign now, hardly a secret any more so they are idiots when these people do it.

You shouldn't be assumed to be a white supremacist and punished just because you flashed something that might be a symbol of white power. It might not. The idiots are those that jump to conclusions to keep pushing the narrative of there being white supremacists everywhere. People use the symbol of a black fist to mean black power. For most it's a symbol of empowerment for some it's a symbol used the same way a white supremacist might use a white power symbol. I highly doubt any black person would be assumed the worst of or punished for a black power symbol.

"might be a symbol of white power"





It is a symbol, you know it, I know it and most people know it. You may think it should be perfectly okay to make the symbol and if so then fair enough, but to pretend it could be something else shows you to be either shockingly naive or simply disingenuous.

Your argument about the acceptance of a "black power" salute is a fair one, it is viewed less harshly I would suspect due to the fact that it came about through being a sign of empowerment when racism was very bad in the US, should that acceptance have a life span now?  It's certainly something to debate but in these times debates like that are fraught with PC dangers so are avoided.

Association with White Supremacy

In 2017, the OK gesture was at the center of an online prank in meme culture related to alt-right and white supremacy originating from anonymous message board posts on the website 4chan.[39] The Boston Globe reported that users on 4chan's "/pol/" (Politically Incorrect) board were instructed in February 2017 to "flood Twitter and other social media websites...claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy," as part of a campaign dubbed "Operation O-KKK".[36] The association of the gesture with white supremacy derived from the assertion that the three upheld fingers resemble a 'W' and the circle made with the thumb and forefinger resemble the head of a 'P', together standing for "white power".[40] While some members of the alt-right used the symbol after the launch of the 4chan campaign, it remained ambiguous whether or not it was being used to communicate genuine adherence to white supremacy, or with deliberately ironic motives.[41] In May 2017, the Anti-Defamation League published an article asking:



Has the simple thumb-and-forefinger 'OK' hand gesture become a common white supremacist hand sign? Not quite, but it has become a popular gesture used by people across several segments of the right and far right—including some actual white supremacists—who generally use it to trigger reactions. [...] Only if the gesture occurs in context with other clear indicators of white supremacy can one draw that conclusion.[40]

Most people know that? Where do you get this grand assertion? Same place you got your assertion that Tory voters started voting Green, i.e. out of thin air?

I reject that appropriation. It has been a very important communication sign in diving for decades and divers will carry on using it regardless of what a bunch of idiots on 4chan and their race-baiting followers think.

What's more important is that the colour red (especially with ties and flags) now means "I'm a paedo." Sorry, been appropriated.

Nope, just demonstrating the stupidity of thinking something normal has been changed because a few people say so.

Okay?