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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid Mary Hart flash "white power" sign at Trump event
Looks like it, but you can be the judge:
Link to tweet
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Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Of course she did.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)rurallib
(62,411 posts)but she sure does have very white power hands, I must say.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)AnotherMother4Peace
(4,243 posts)cayugafalls
(5,640 posts)In my opinion, that is why they co-opted the OK hand sign, so they could claim they are not flashing anything but OK.
Then when we call them out, they fall back and claim fake news...
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)sop
(10,167 posts)remarks. Typically a speaker would clap their hands in the direction of the crowd when acknowledging an "incredible audience." Some politicians use the finger-pointing gesture, singling out individual members of the audience for recognition, perhaps even ask the audience to applaud themselves. Holding up both hands and forming the ok gesture at that moment makes no sense, unless it's some coded signal.
Rebl2
(13,498 posts)chia
(2,244 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)samnsara
(17,622 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,139 posts)kskiska
(27,045 posts)for $1M each.
countingbluecars
(4,766 posts)her KKK robe too.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)when you are seriously a racist.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)totally unnatural hand motion which means yes it was intentional.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)I could NEVER stand her back in the freakin' 1980s... guess my gut was right!
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,834 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)I can't believe how long it's been since that show first aired!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)I've been making the OK sign for years, and only learned in the last few months that it was adopted by white supremacists.
I'm not subtle with it either. It's high up in the air, with me saying "okay" or winking.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)I thought "thumbs up" was geeky so I adopted the okay sign at some point.
It's so handy in situations where you can't speak to someone, like to your yard worker when he's got the blower going, or helping someone back out of a long driveway...
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)I've been doing it for so long.
Mine is always more round-looking than what I've seen online. And the supremacists seem to keep it low too.
It's been handy for me in the same kind of noisy situations, like a factory floor where I'm signaling someone to switch a machine back on or whatever.
Cha
(297,189 posts)https://www.bing.com/search?q=shaka+sign&form=ANNTH1&refig=edc4b5e82a7a49228d8c086d989c669b&sp=-1&ghc=2&pq=shaka+si&sc=8-8&qs=n&sk=&cvid=edc4b5e82a7a49228d8c086d989c669b
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)I'll try to change to thumbs up, before social media declares that's the new signal to tell people "up your ass" or whatever.
lame54
(35,287 posts)Gothmog
(145,168 posts)Cha
(297,189 posts)TlalocW
(15,381 posts)It's also ASL for, "Asshole."
TlalocW
tblue37
(65,340 posts)dmr
(28,347 posts)even want to consider her a celebrity.
But, yea, that was the white power sign. In normal life, nobody does that with their hands. If you're abnormal, I guess people do.
As an aside, many years ago, actually decades, I remember hearing about a lady who tried to get Mary Hart off the air. She said in one of her letters that Hart's voice was like chalk grating on a chalk board, and it gave her a headache. That's all I remember, except me laughing at the time.
malaise
(268,968 posts)Racist to the core
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,834 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)nsd
(2,406 posts)Don't cheapen the accusation by applying it to stuff like this.
Remember how in 2008 some people accused Obama of giving Clinton the middle finger?
Same thing. Nonsense.