I'll take "looking for racism under every rock" for 500 please

Yeah sure. Soon as I come up with the thousands of dollars that are required to run a proper national poll I'll get right on that.

It's amazing how willfully ignorant some of you are.

You are serious? You really believe it's the same thing?

No you idiot. Of course a president has more of a voice than a congressman. That wasn't the point. The point was that both carry weight. Period. I'm not going to fixate on one while ignoring the other. When a member of congress stands in the middle of a riot and shouts "NO JUSTICE NO PEACE!" I'm not going to ignore it just because she's not President or if we're being real here, because she's a member of a party I like. The fact that you and some others here are bending over backwards to justify your selective outrage is the part I find fascinating.

I'm not the one who said something that needed clarifying. Idiot.

So ..., you think oppressed people should just shut the fuck up and not fight back? and you think there's no such thing as white privilege? Idiot.

Oppressed people: help, help, I'm being oppressed. look at the violence inherent in the system
T.R: Stop inciting riots!!!!

It's not my fault that you can't understand simple phrases like "I'm not interested in semantics." If semantics is too big a word for you, I'm sorry. I thought I was dealing with grown adults here.

That much is obvious.

Children trying to get into adult conversations does frustrate both the adult and the child oftentimes. Especially, when the child thinks they understand definitions of words which they obviously don't. So, yes, you are dealing with grown adults, but, child, you'll need to grow up a bit more if you don't understand the definition of "semantics" or "Life" and wish to join the conversation.

Getting back to the actual topic of the thread, this hand gesture bullshit is ridiculous. The whole thing was a hoax and these idiots keep digging it back up.

Is it? That's the whole point of it. It's something that can be brushed off as something innocent. So, either you know what it is and are brushing it off, or you're willfully ignorant and naive.

I think it was rhetorical.

Obviously one has a much higher public profile than the other.

Yep, and that's why it's called a dogwhistle--so assholes can play the adult, racist version of "I'm Not Touching You" when they're called out on it.

Or else there really is nothing to it, and people need to stop policing every fucking gesture and facial tic for a reason to get offended.

So ..., here I am ... just ... living my life, going on about my own business. Guy starts talking to me. He's cute, so I respond. Then, I gotta ask, cuz it's weird ... "why do you have white shoelaces in your black boots?"

Guess who Jenee stopped talking to.

Then ..., here I am ... just ... living my life, going on about my own business. Guy starts talking to me. He's cute, so I respond. Then, I gotta ask, cuz it's weird ... "why do you make an OK sign at all your friends?"

I'm not looking to get offended. But, stupid people still exist and they offend me.

There's nothing quite like the sight of a white guy lecturing a Black woman on what white supremacist symbolism she is and isn't allowed to react to.

She can react however she wants, but she benefits from no special status to protect her from skepticism or mockery when she crosses into delusional lunatic territory.

My bet is there are a bunch of times you give that symbol around your friends because you know what it means.

So let me ask the question. @oldfella1962 do you see any racism here?

I see a Jeopardy winner holding up three fingers because that was his third victory. When he won the first time he held up.....wait for it....one finger! When he won again he held up.....this will really blow your mind....two fingers! Imagine the collective surprise from Jeopardy viewers when he held up THREE FINGERS upon his third victory!
My god if that doesn't scream out Hitler reincarnated I don't know what does.

But Tererun rest assured I'm holding up two fingers toward you by the way how are you coming on the proof that I'm a racist? Any luck with that? Lots of opinions & assumptions but so far you still don't have jack shit. A couple of off-color jokes (no pun intended) that could apply to any demographic but little else.

Annoyed at that sign having become a white supremacist symbol? Take it up with the people who decided to start using it that way. We didn't just make this shit up.

Nice dodge, but that was not what I was talking about.