‘Are we severely doing this once more?’ New phony ‘White Energy’ controversy ‘investigated’ by MSM

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CBS information has blown the lid off the hate crime of the century: a crew of firefighters making the upside-down “okay” hand gesture in a gaggle picture. But once more, a good media outlet fell for a well-worn 4chan prank.

In accordance with CBS affiliate WUSA-TV, a gaggle of recruits with the District of Columbia Hearth and Emergency Medical Providers posed for a crew picture again in March 2019. The community sounded the alarm on Wednesday when it seen a number of of them have been making the thumb-and-index finger “okay” hand gesture – a gesture CBS identified is “a doable ‘white energy’” image.

Accroding to WUSA, the “gesture within the picture may be seen as ‘WP,’ for ‘white energy,’ since extending three fingers is a doable ‘W’ and the ‘circle’ coming off an arm is a doable ‘P’ — ‘WP.’” Seemingly, the information web site was unaware that the “WP” which means was conjured up by 4chan trolls a number of years in the past to see simply how ridiculous a hoax they may make mainstream media shops fall for.

And it’s labored like a appeal once more, identical to it did finally month’s Military-Navy soccer recreation. And the time earlier than that. And the time earlier than that. 

“Do these hack journalists simply trawl army, police and firefighter group images on Fb to seek out issues to be offended by?” tweeted pundit Ian Miles Cheong.

As extra media shops picked up the story, DC Hearth and EMS launched an announcement saying that “The Division has instantly initiated an inside evaluate of the , which can embody interviews with everybody pictured within the .”

These interviews will doubtless discover that the smiling group of recruits, a few of whom are black, should not a secret chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, or a white supremacist terrorist cell. An identical evaluate by army brass discovered that the Military and Navy cadets accused of flashing white energy gestures in the course of the Military-Navy soccer recreation have been “an harmless recreation and never linked to extremism.”

In fact, this could be apparent to anybody who has ever performed the ‘circle recreation’ in a schoolyard, through which the participant caught wanting on the circle loses, and is punished with a punch within the arm. But in Donald Trump’s America — or so the media would have you ever consider — there’s a Klansman on each nook, and each prankster is a possible Hitler ready to be caught. 

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