Possible 'white power' hand signs at Army-Navy game probed

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cyberdad
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20 Dec 2019, 7:34 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
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I was born in 1961.

There's a pretty big difference in "experience" between someone born in 1961 and one born in 1964.

Because of the Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinations. I remember both. A person born in 1964 wouldn't.

A person born in 1964 probably doesn't remember much about the Vietnam War; whereas I have a vivid memory of it from the TV news/


You would have remembered the moon landing in 1969, you would been 8 and I was 2.


I actually have vague memories about the moon landing. I must have been around two or three.


I only recall seeing the moon landings a few years after, in the early 70s they kept replaying the moon landings over and over again on Australian TV :lol:

I vividly remember watching it in 1972 on my parent's giant colour TV (we were one of the first households on our street to get one) of course the film of Armstrong and Aldrin bouncing around the lunar surface was in B/W


I recall the rocket ship taking off, when my parents said we had to leave for the store. I remember being disappointed that I couldn't see the ship land on the moon. :lol: :lol:
To be so naive!


It is one of those great historical events that I wish I could have been old enough to have witnessed live as it happened.



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20 Dec 2019, 7:36 pm

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The circle game has been around for decades and was featured on the early 2000s sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle." It is popular among teenagers today, the West Point statement said.
Source: Army, Navy investigators find hand gestures made during football broadcast weren't racist


Well now I'll have to reshelve my tattooed Naval officer story for another thread :lol:



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21 Dec 2019, 3:37 am

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A probe into hand gestures flashed by West Point cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen at last weekend's televised Army-Navy college football game in Philidelphia were not racist, separate military investigations conducted by the military academies found.

The Naval Academy found that two of its midshipmen were participating in a “sophomoric game" and had no racist intent behind the hand signs. During the probe, investigators reviewed TV footage, conducted more than two dozen interviews and background checks by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the FBI.

It was determined that the freshman Annapolis midshipmen were participating in a "circle game" with their rival West Point cadets, in which someone flashes an upside-down OK sign below the waist and punches anyone who looks at it.

The circle game has been around for decades and was featured on the early 2000s sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle." It is popular among teenagers today, the West Point statement said.

Source: Army, Navy investigators find hand gestures made during football broadcast weren't racist


Called it.



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22 Dec 2019, 9:33 pm

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Hahahahahahahahaha. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

OK, Boomer.

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The ultimate "White Supremacist" infiltration. :mrgreen:

The white supremacists, they're everywhere!! 8O

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22 Dec 2019, 10:30 pm

More authentic when real racists do it

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23 Dec 2019, 12:28 am

OMG, the infiltration is complete -- they're everywhere!! 8O

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23 Dec 2019, 5:47 am

Darmok wrote:
Pepe wrote:
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Hahahahahahahahaha. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

OK, Boomer.

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The ultimate "White Supremacist" infiltration. :mrgreen:

The white supremacists, they're everywhere!! 8O

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I'm sure you are correct,
But who are those "guys"?
Remember, I am a dinosaur. :wink:

She is a Democrat, right?



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23 Dec 2019, 7:44 am

Pepe wrote:
Darmok wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Darmok wrote:
Hahahahahahahahaha. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

OK, Boomer.

Image


The ultimate "White Supremacist" infiltration. :mrgreen:

The white supremacists, they're everywhere!! 8O

Image


I'm sure you are correct,
But who are those "guys"?
Remember, I am a dinosaur. :wink:

She is a Democrat, right?


Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez aka AOC. A member of congress who has basically become a celebrity. I call her 'the Kim Kardashian of politics'.



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23 Dec 2019, 10:35 am

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23 Dec 2019, 4:32 pm

EzraS wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Darmok wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Darmok wrote:
Hahahahahahahahaha. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

OK, Boomer.

Image


The ultimate "White Supremacist" infiltration. :mrgreen:

The white supremacists, they're everywhere!! 8O

Image


I'm sure you are correct,
But who are those "guys"?
Remember, I am a dinosaur. :wink:

She is a Democrat, right?


Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez aka AOC. A member of congress who has basically become a celebrity. I call her 'the Kim Kardashian of politics'.

I thought it might be her.
At least she is pretty.
I can tolerate the prettier emotionalists better, erm. 8O

Too sexist?
Or just sexist/appearancist enough? :mrgreen:

Down with the tyranny of political correctness!
Down with crushing anti-intellectualism!
Get a sense of humour, FFS. :mrgreen: 8)

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23 Dec 2019, 8:42 pm

Its a clever hand signal to use given it can be misinterpreted/ambiguous in public places. However, it probably depends on the context (for example all white basketball team playing a black team).
https://abc7news.com/society/petaluma-s ... n/5320937/

Then what it really means is this
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23 Dec 2019, 8:44 pm

You're pounding this into the ground.

The cadets were playing a stupid, adolescent game involving punching each other.



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23 Dec 2019, 8:52 pm

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You're pounding this into the ground.

The cadets were playing a stupid, adolescent game involving punching each other.


I was responding to Darmok and Pepe



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25 Dec 2019, 9:09 am

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You're pounding this into the ground.

The cadets were playing a stupid, adolescent game involving punching each other.


Most likely so were the kids in the high school yearbook photo.

But you know I graduated from high school way back in 2018, so I'm probably out of touch with what's going on these days.

And I just found out that it is Not okay to be white.



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25 Dec 2019, 5:42 pm

EzraS wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
You're pounding this into the ground.

The cadets were playing a stupid, adolescent game involving punching each other.


Most likely so were the kids in the high school yearbook photo.

But you know I graduated from high school way back in 2018, so I'm probably out of touch with what's going on these days.

And I just found out that it is Not okay to be white.


P1: I am a white male.
P2: Supremacists are white males.
Ergo,
C: I am a white supremacist.

Yes, I know.
The whole argument is kaka.
*That* is my point. :wink:



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25 Dec 2019, 6:15 pm

EzraS wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
You're pounding this into the ground.

The cadets were playing a stupid, adolescent game involving punching each other.


Most likely so were the kids in the high school yearbook photo.

But you know I graduated from high school way back in 2018, so I'm probably out of touch with what's going on these days.

And I just found out that it is Not okay to be white.


The idea that "it's not okay to be white" is a self pitying notion dreamed up by racists in order to make themselves out to be the victim. Just because racial minorities have finally been allowed to have their guaranteed piece of the pie hardly means that whites have been shorted with theirs.


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