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Jun 17 2020 08:09am
Trial by social media is going to be the new norm i think
https://www.rt.com/usa/492072-hispanic-man-white-power-gesture/

A Mexican-American man who was fired after being accused of flashing a “white power gesture” says he was merely cracking his knuckles, prompting demands that he be given his job back and a retraction from his accuser.

Emmanuel Cafferty was recently terminated from his position at a San Diego utility company after an encounter with a stranger some two weeks ago. Stopped at an intersection, the stranger snapped a photo showing Cafferty in his truck with an arm hanging out of the window. The picture was promptly shared to Twitter, where it was alleged the man had flashed a symbol some associate with white supremacy – known to everyone else as the ‘OK’ sign.

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Though Cafferty appears to be making an entirely different gesture in the grainy photo, the image soon made its way back to his employer at San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E). The company fired him after a few days of deliberation, claiming it “took appropriate action.”
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Jun 17 2020 08:13am
4chan really made the 'ok symbol' thing gain legitimate traction :blink: in the picture it looks like he actually is cracking his knuckle
hope Mr. Emmanuel Cafferty sues the absolute daylights out of the company that fired him for malice, slander and libel, and violation of Civil Rights by firing him based on race. yeah that last one may be a stretch, but so is firing him for this.
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Jun 17 2020 06:39pm
Quote (duffman316 @ 17 Jun 2020 10:09)
Trial by social media is going to be the new norm i think
https://www.rt.com/usa/492072-hispanic-man-white-power-gesture/

A Mexican-American man who was fired after being accused of flashing a “white power gesture” says he was merely cracking his knuckles, prompting demands that he be given his job back and a retraction from his accuser.

Emmanuel Cafferty was recently terminated from his position at a San Diego utility company after an encounter with a stranger some two weeks ago. Stopped at an intersection, the stranger snapped a photo showing Cafferty in his truck with an arm hanging out of the window. The picture was promptly shared to Twitter, where it was alleged the man had flashed a symbol some associate with white supremacy – known to everyone else as the ‘OK’ sign.

...

Though Cafferty appears to be making an entirely different gesture in the grainy photo, the image soon made its way back to his employer at San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E). The company fired him after a few days of deliberation, claiming it “took appropriate action.”



This dude about to win some big fucking money from that company.
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Jun 17 2020 06:42pm
Quote (duffman316 @ Jun 17 2020 10:09am)
Trial by social media is going to be the new norm i think
https://www.rt.com/usa/492072-hispanic-man-white-power-gesture/

A Mexican-American man who was fired after being accused of flashing a “white power gesture” says he was merely cracking his knuckles, prompting demands that he be given his job back and a retraction from his accuser.

Emmanuel Cafferty was recently terminated from his position at a San Diego utility company after an encounter with a stranger some two weeks ago. Stopped at an intersection, the stranger snapped a photo showing Cafferty in his truck with an arm hanging out of the window. The picture was promptly shared to Twitter, where it was alleged the man had flashed a symbol some associate with white supremacy – known to everyone else as the ‘OK’ sign.

...

Though Cafferty appears to be making an entirely different gesture in the grainy photo, the image soon made its way back to his employer at San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E). The company fired him after a few days of deliberation, claiming it “took appropriate action.”


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Jun 17 2020 07:47pm
>Hispanic man
>white power
>???????
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Jun 18 2020 12:16am
Quote (ReturnFormer @ 18 Jun 2020 03:47)
>Hispanic man
>white power
>???????


No longer a contradiction for pale pasty privileged lefties. See also the White Supremacy of the Hong Kong protesters:

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Jun 18 2020 12:31am
now that trolls have proven they can control the narrative by turning any innocuous thing into a "racist gesture", what should they go after next?

I'm thinking they should set their sights on masks next. It actually sets up perfectly. Georgia's old anti-mask law (which was designed as an anti-KKK measure) sets a perfect precedent for the white supremacists to align themselves with mask usage.

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Jun 18 2020 01:03am
lol
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Jun 18 2020 01:09am
Pepe is not racist, the creator has SUED people for using it in a racist manner and before the alt right nerds who cant meme started using it in 2010 no one associated it with racism, they are just taking it back.
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Jun 18 2020 02:43am
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jun 18 2020 08:16am)
No longer a contradiction for pale pasty privileged lefties. See also the White Supremacy of the Hong Kong protesters:

https://i.redd.it/lvqi846ljni31.jpg


Chapter #1435 in "Pinning everything on the lefties".

The word "white" (to describe a group of ethnicities) is a direct result of racism itself, and its meaning has always been "anyone whose race we like". E.g. back when there was constant hate against Italians and Irishmen, those people were not considered to be "white". Now that nobody has a problem with them anymore, they're suddenly white.
It's won't be surprising when Hispanics are included in the "white" label sooner or later.
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