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19 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

 

The outrage!!!! 

How in the world is a waterfront "woke"?

And....isn't it interesting when these people claim to be all for local control, state rights, stage control of everything......but then have such a problem when a local municipality does something.

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49 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

How in the world is a waterfront "woke"?

And....isn't it interesting when these people claim to be all for local control, state rights, stage control of everything......but then have such a problem when a local municipality does something.

Wouldn't it be nice to have just one party that is consistent throughout left, right or in the middle - just be consistent in what your present as policy and how you 'live it out.  - a little integrity please. It would give your party some credibility.  :facepalm:

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Fox has been doing this forever. 

 

My favorite was from one of the Obama campaigns, when Michelle introduced Barack at a live event, and he winked and gave her a fist bump as he took the mike.

 

The next day, Fox was incredulous. "What was that? " the anchors asked as they showed the clip over and over. "Some kind of terrorist fist bump?" 

 

And of course the next day it was "People are asking about this strange  exchange between Barack and Michelle Obama. Is it sending some kind of coded message? People are calling it a "terrorist fist bump."

 

It was a fist bump.  

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9 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

Fox has been doing this forever. 

 

My favorite was from one of the Obama campaigns, when Michelle introduced Barack at a live event, and he winked and gave her a fist bump as he took the mike.

 

The next day, Fox was incredulous. "What was that? " the anchors asked as they showed the clip over and over. "Some kind of terrorist fist bump?" 

 

And of course the next day it was "People are asking about this strange  exchange between Barack and Michelle Obama. Is it sending some kind of coded message? People are calling it a "terrorist fist bump."

 

It was a fist bump.  

 

So...similar to the okay sign? Both ends of the media spectrum engage in the same behavior. 

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1 minute ago, DevoHusker said:

 

So...similar to the okay sign? Both ends of the media spectrum engage in the same behavior. 

 

No. Actual factual right-wingers were using that sign. The Obamas did a fist bump. 

 

"Both sides" inevitably is an apology for one side. 

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2 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

No. Actual factual right-wingers were using that sign. The Obamas did a fist bump. 

 

"Both sides" inevitably is an apology for one side. 

 

Did the okay sign become right wing before or after the media made it a thing? 

 

(some) of them co-opted it after the hullabaloo.

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2 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

 

Did the okay sign become right wing before or after the media made it a thing? 

 

(some) of them co-opted it after the hullabaloo.

 

Before. Which is the point Guy was making - the two actions are not remotely similar, but Fox had kittens over the fist bump and downplayed the OK sign. 

 

Hence the name of this thread.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-ok-sign-racist-05282019-story.html

 

The short answer is that, starting in 2017, members of a discussion board called 4chan mounted one in a series of attempts to “troll” — or mock — liberals with a right-wing hoax, claiming that the OK sign was a symbol of white supremacy, according to Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League. The idea was that “the libs” would take up the cry that the OK symbol was racist and, in so doing, make themselves look ridiculous.

 

Some news outlets took the bait, and the claim was repeated on social media, Pitcavage said. Soon more right-wing trolls joined the campaign, which was anti-liberal but not necessarily white supremacist. Then some actual white supremacists took up the OK sign, apparently still largely as a way to make fun of liberals. And finally, some white supremacists started using the sign without apparent irony, most famously the New Zealand mosque shooter, a self-described racist who killed 51 Muslim worshipers March 15.

 

So which came first again?

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