Stupidity: #WhitePower trending on social media following Army-Navy game after innocuous cadet gesture caught on TV
(TNS) One of the greatest American sports traditions is the annual Army-Navy football game.
Watched and adored by tens of millions, it’s the one game during the college football season scores of fans circle on their calendars.
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You could say that it’s an American tradition as much as its a sports tradition: Cadet athletes from two of our country’s prestigious military academies line up to play each other for the Commander-in-Chief Trophy and bragging rights for an entire year.
The annual event took place on Saturday, and despite the lopsided Navy win, the game was still hard-fought and every bit an event that lived up to its billing.
But because the Left hates traditional America and especially an institution — the U.S. military — that embodies our culture, heritage, and republican form of government, they take every opportunity they can find to insult it, besmirch it, and tear it down.
Even if they have to make something up.
Following yesterday’s game, the hashtag #WhitePower began trending on social media because some people appeared to intentionally mistake a hand gesture by a cadet as a white power symbol.
Trumps America #ArmyNavyGame a bunch of cadets throwing up the white power symbol on national television. Hopefully they will face disciplinary action. #Disgusted
— Jerry Avenaim (@avenaim) December 14, 2021
Immediately, defenders of the military chimed in.
On the other hand, Blue Check Twitter making broad assumptions of racism based on groupthink characterizations of video clips has never gone wrong before, so full speed ahead I guess.
— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) December 15, 2021
Some in the media are already taking the bait as well.
West Point and Annapolis investigate possible ‘white power’ hand sign https://t.co/VPwXodhd99 via @WSJ
— Ben Kesling (@bkesling) December 15, 2021
Ben why doesn’t your piece point out that they all made the hand gesture upside down such that it looks more akin to the made-you-look-gotcha “circle game” than it does an OK symbol? Why not at least accurately describe their actions at a bare minimum? This simply makes no sense. https://t.co/SEgZKySio2
— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) December 15, 2021
So are the ‘national security experts’ afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
The cadets are
1. Stupid and don't know that "okay" is how racists troll people who don't know it's not a racist symbol
2. Stupid and think it *is* a racist symbol
3. Stupid - and actual 3-Percenters
4. Stupid and playing a kid's game on national TVCommon to all of these is…
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 15, 2021
But wait…what’s this? WWE harbors such vile people?
Thanks for your amazing detective work, Tom. We have now outed John Cena as a white supremacist. Keep it up! pic.twitter.com/KvF4jxwq8K
— Nick Searcy, ESCHEWER OF MALARKEY AND STAR (@yesnicksearcy) December 15, 2021
Okay, so Cena is clearly flashing the “OK” sign.
Google "circle game," silly. It isn't hard. Anybody can do it.
— Nick Searcy, ESCHEWER OF MALARKEY AND STAR (@yesnicksearcy) December 15, 2021
We did. So the Circle Game is a real thing, and remember, while these individuals are military cadets, they are also very young men and women — college-age, in fact — so, ‘games people play.’
Columnist, author, and former U.S. Army colonel Kurt Schlichter isn’t having any.
This bullshit where liberals attempt to define innocuous gestures as hate crimes is simply their way of asserting power by causing others to take their lies seriously.
The proper response is a middle finger gesture.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 15, 2021
Psst: Because leftist jerk offs declare something a "hate symbol" does not mean it is.
Screw them.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 15, 2021
We’ll see how this all turns out but our initial impression is that these cadets were simply fooling around. But we’re already certain that it has nothing to do with “Trump’s America.”
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qwerty
That hand signal is used by scuba divers, one of many used to communicate underwater.
The left is full of racist idiots who should all be institutionalized before they hurt someone.
The “OK” hand symbol was a Chan troll. This is NOT a white power salute. Bunch of dirtfaggot gaystapo buttclowns making up crap again.
I use the middle finger to salute these imbeciles!