Greetings Marcus!

..and I’ll just cosign my buddy BD- Welcome! The more voices/opinions the better.

You will please note in my previous response, I did say that I agree with raising public awareness about the racists gesture. But let’s not take the bait and give those cretins more attention than necessary. Attention is what they so desperately crave.

Great having you chime in!

Hey Marcus welcome my brother. I think you both have some good points. Truth is correct people like Steven Miller knows what he is doing just to make people mad. But you are also correct that we should not ignore it either. I can see this being a secret white power message to all the racists so we do have to keep our eyes open because it can get out of hand. Now don’t lurk for another year Marcus. Speak out more and join in our discussions.

I’ve been lurking in the background not commenting for about a year, so this is my first time posting.

I usually agree with the things you post but I have to disagree with you here. We have to be careful not to downplay this to something being done just for a response. Think of it this way. If somebody on the Obama staff took a pic with the black power fist in the air or some gang sign they would still be talking about that to this day. That would have never been acceptable during that time so we have to be careful not to accept it now.

If 45 was a real leader he would instruct his people not to do something like that, if for no other reason than bad optics. But he is not a real leader which makes me think these people are flashing hand signs as code to all the racists out there to keep up the support. Stay woke people.

And I have no problem calling it Out so that the general American public is aware of it. But I think we’ve also got to be careful NOT feed into that nonsense by giving it more attention than it deserves.

Keep in mind “it’s typically used by various right wing personalities, often while posing for photographs, to troll liberals and garner an outraged response.”

Hateful dim-bulbs (like Stephan Miller and his ilk) do what they do out of irrational fear, ignorance and desperation.

WE (the rest of us) are smarter than they are …and they know it.

Let’s not fall for their pitiful game.

I hadn’t heard about this undercover “White-power” hand gesture DJ so thank you for bringing it to my awareness. At first glance I thought the pics might have been photo-shopped for shock value. But upon further fact-checking of the topic, via Snopes, apparently the photos are authentic.

As per Snopes:
Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow at the *ADL’s Center on Extremism, told us that while the gesture has evolved since it was first conceived by anonymous Internet trolls in the first half of 2017, it has persisted. But it’s still hardly safe to assume a person using the gesture is intending to communicate hate. Instead it’s typically used by various right wing personalities, often while posing for photographs, to troll liberals and garner an outraged response:

“Right now whenever anyone is using it in this context it’s very sort of ironic and trolling. But if it persists there’s a chance the ironic aspects of it might fall away with time. That happens organically and it’s way too soon to know if the usage will just drop off once they get bored with it, or if they continue to using it ironically in a trolling fashion, or something else.”

*Anti-Defamation League