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TopicUniversal is SUED for 30K after a MINIONS character flashed WHITE POWER Sign!!
berlyman101
07/13/21 3:30:21 AM
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Slayer_22 posted...
Please don't, that's just unreasonable. If I make a song I'm proud of and some racists use it, it doesn't make it a racist song. You're just letting scumbags take it and alter it to their own means. Hell, people do this symbol at my work(which is mostly Mexican and black men and women) as a gotcha(when below the belt). We shouldn't let racists just take every single thing and start saying 'well, this is mine.

Idk, I just don't agree with the sentiment that when racists use something, it has to be that.

Imagine if people called Michael Jordan a jew hating racist because he sported the Hitler stache for awhile.

It's the intent behind the sign. The trolls/white supremacists aimed to sew discord and confusion and some people ran with it to actually mean white power. So now, that's what they mean when they use it. That's what a "dog whistle" is. The circle game was never a trend in pictures before they started that stupid shit. It's not about "letting" them use it to mean something racist. You can't stop anyone from coopting any sort of sign, really, if they decide to do so. m

Michael Jordan was arrogant, if anything, about the mustache. There was no hidden intent behind it. Unless he actually is a neo fascist, but that seems unlikely.

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