Current Events > Jeopardy contestant flashes white power sign! ...only he didn't, wait, he did?

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BeyondWalls
04/28/21 3:04:17 PM
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jeopardy-contestants-controversial-hand-gesture-might-not-be-what-it-seems-065222783.html

Jeopardy! contestant Kelly Donohue made quite an impression during the player introductions on Tuesday. The three-day returning champion made a hand gesture that many viewers found offensive and racist. Fans took to Twitter to question and discuss the sentiment behind the gesture.

Donohue appeared to make an upside-down OK sign. The OK sign has been co-opted by hate groups, particularly white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League classified it as an official symbol of hate in 2019.

While the sign is a symbol of hate, context does matter. One viewer pointed out that during the previous introductions, Donohue held up the number of wins he had coming into the game. Donohues gesture was similar to how some people, like a baseball umpire, display the number three.

It is the current opinion of The Jeopardy! Fan that Kelly Donohue was signaling his number of wins at the start of each episode.

Only now "The Jeopardy Fan!" has reversed course and said it WAS a white power signal!

https://twitter.com/_thejeopardyfan/status/1387244555083337730

In the time since this was originally posted, further information has come to light. It is now my current opinion that the actions of Kelly Donohue on tonights episode of Jeopardy were no accident and that the previous actions were very likely for deniabilitys sake.

This morning, Kelly posted a statement on Facebook. https://facebook.com/1603347/posts/10104000902760607/?d=n
His complete avoidance of even mentioning white supremacy, let alone disavowing it, speaks absolute volumes.



TLDR - Jeopardy contestant flashes a white power sign on his third win. Twitter explodes. Fan site says, "hold on, he was just showing his number of wins." Contestant opens his fat mouth on Facebook and fan site reverses course and says, "yikes, this guy probably actually is a fat racist."

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brotrrwinner
04/28/21 3:06:01 PM
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We need to put that racist POS in jail

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CapnMuffin
04/28/21 3:06:36 PM
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When waiting for the facts double crosses you.
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b_hamnite
04/28/21 3:07:45 PM
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Obviously, he's down the the East Side. Duh.

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EmbraceOfDeath
04/28/21 3:08:23 PM
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Why the FUCK is some dude holding up three fingers a news story?

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BeyondWalls
04/28/21 3:09:50 PM
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EmbraceOfDeath posted...
Why the FUCK is some dude holding up three fingers a news story?
Because showing a white power sign on national TV would NOT be good?

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Sayoria
04/28/21 3:09:53 PM
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Who the hell holds up 3 fingers and uses the middle, ring and pinky, and not the index? He even used the index in the first two images.

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Mistere Man
04/28/21 3:10:24 PM
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Those are also American sign language signs for the numbers 1, 2, and 6 I believe.

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Dakimakura
04/28/21 3:10:37 PM
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Yup he held up 3 fingers put him in jail.

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OffTempo
04/28/21 3:10:42 PM
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EmbraceOfDeath posted...
Why the FUCK is some dude holding up three fingers a news story?
People need something new to be angry about

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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
04/28/21 3:12:08 PM
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First glance at this, the dude is holding up his number of wins. Some people do three that way, in fact there was a whole part of Inglorious Bastards about the different ways people hold up three fingers.

That said, I want to know what "additional info" they found that made them SURE this dude is a racist. I'm guessing it's hidden in the linked Facebook post but the link doesn't go to anything for me. Did he delete it?


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jon1012
04/28/21 3:12:55 PM
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k

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BeyondWalls
04/28/21 3:14:16 PM
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Blade_Trinity
04/28/21 3:14:58 PM
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Smackems
04/28/21 3:16:38 PM
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DeadBankerDream
04/28/21 3:18:09 PM
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Why is a sexy mandog named Kelly?

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Broseph_Stalin
04/28/21 3:18:18 PM
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Random deranged guy on twitter: 3 is a racist number actually

Journalist: I must report on this
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Doom_Art
04/28/21 3:18:41 PM
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It's like the chuds doing this don't realize that people can tell the difference very easily.

If you're just casually making the OK sign like everyone else does you're not creepily positioning yourself towards the camera and making it very obvious.

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SauI_Goodman
04/28/21 3:19:17 PM
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Theres nothing here lmao. Internets getting bored again.

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WrkHrdPlayHrdr
04/28/21 3:20:23 PM
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Looking deeper at it, is it still the "racist ok symbol" if the circle is closed? His hand looks pretty close to his chest that it makes me think it wasn't an open circle.

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BilalPowell
04/28/21 3:21:14 PM
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White supremicists also breathe air. We should probably stop breathing air so people don't think we're racist.

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Jiek_Fafn
04/28/21 3:21:41 PM
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Yeah, he's not even making the okay symbol

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gmanthebest
04/28/21 3:26:11 PM
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What a roller-coaster of stupidity.

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SquirtleSkwad
04/28/21 3:30:11 PM
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Broseph_Stalin posted...
Random deranged guy on twitter: 3 is a racist number actually

Journalist: I must report on this
4chan pretty much made a point to show that anything can be racist if you push it on racists hard enough. They started the trend that the OK sign was a new white power expression and low and behold, racists lapped it up. It's actually a pretty wild way to get these jackasses to out themselves.

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AngelsNAirwav3s
04/28/21 3:32:16 PM
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I thought cancel culture didn't exist tho

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Autocraticus
04/28/21 3:34:54 PM
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God dammit 4chan why did you ruin this for us normies?
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Guide
04/28/21 3:35:06 PM
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I don't like that that sign is now exclusively recognized as a white power thing.

I don't have facebook, what did that guy post?

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Zeeak4444
04/28/21 3:37:53 PM
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BeyondWalls posted...

is that real?

What was his response, post is deleted and I cant seem to find it anywhere.

edit:

Guide posted...
I don't like that that sign is now exclusively recognized as a white power thing.

its not, the article even says context matters themselves. But as someone thats known a lot of AB, NLR, Dagos, and peckerwoods, they 100% co-op shit like this and think its the funniest shit in the world because it causes topics like this.

Who really knows here but Id like to see the Facebook post about it.


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BignutzisBack
04/28/21 3:40:03 PM
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I remember the good old days where when you flashed that sign below your midsection and somebody saw it you got to punch them

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Hayame Zero
04/28/21 3:42:13 PM
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EmbraceOfDeath posted...
Why the FUCK is some dude holding up three fingers a news story?
This is basically Yahoo News. Grasping at trivial or nonexistent issues for the news portion is the only thing they've got now.

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UnholyMudcrab
04/28/21 3:49:24 PM
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If he'd held up three fingers in a way consistent with the first two times, nobody would be talking about it, but he completely changed which fingers he was counting on and tucked it into his chest like that. That makes it look a little suspicious.

Also, his two fingers gesture is quite rude in the UK but I doubt he or most of the show's audience knows about that.
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ColdOne666
04/28/21 3:52:29 PM
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This is the dumbest thing ever, stupid left wing stuff like this is why morons like Trump win.

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DrizztLink
04/28/21 3:55:28 PM
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ColdOne666 posted...
This is the dumbest thing ever, stupid left wing stuff like this is why morons like Trump win.
Who's the president again?

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philsov
04/28/21 3:57:55 PM
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At first it was a nonstory and the dude should've been given the benefit of the doubt

And then he went and outed himself :\
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Gobstoppers12
04/28/21 3:58:01 PM
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BeyondWalls posted...
Because showing a white power sign on national TV would NOT be good?
Please shut the fuck up with this disingenuous attitude.

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Gobstoppers12
04/28/21 4:00:24 PM
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Doom_Art posted...
It's like the chuds doing this don't realize that people can tell the difference very easily.

If you're just casually making the OK sign like everyone else does you're not creepily positioning yourself towards the camera and making it very obvious.
You can't be serious. You think this is an actual thing to be mad about? Please say sike.

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Complete_Idi0t
04/28/21 4:02:24 PM
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DrizztLink posted...
Who's the president again?

Trump is still the president. Just ask him.
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Old NoiseTank
04/28/21 4:06:30 PM
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clearly a member of the Jefferson Jabronis, rivals of the street gang the Van Buren Boys

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Bio1590
04/28/21 4:13:10 PM
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Man I actually liked this guy too.

Now it also makes me wonder if he deliberately played himself off the show as well after he managed to pull it off. Dana was obviously really good and would have made a game of it regardless, but he was significantly shittier than either of his other 3 games and after he got the Daily Double wrong (which I have a hard time believing he didn't intentionally get wrong) he completely fell off the rails.
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Bio1590
04/28/21 4:15:30 PM
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Also if anyone wants to actually see video

https://youtu.be/hplDZIBgZXY?t=25

Also I'm not going to lie when I saw him do this yesterday I actually did think for a second that that's what he did.
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VideoboysaysCube
04/28/21 4:18:39 PM
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Is there anything left today that doesn't have the potential to be seen as offensive? It seems like every word and gesture has some hidden meaning. I mean, just look at Urban Dictionary. Type in any random word and it'll have some sexual connotation. This snowflake generation is out of control.

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Bio1590
04/28/21 4:20:21 PM
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BeyondWalls
04/28/21 4:25:58 PM
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There's also a politics thread where I've been posting updates. I've got a headache now trying to keep all these people straight. The update is basically... I still don't know. A lot of stuff has been deleted by reddit mods. The guy who runs the fan twitter and the reddit seems to be convinced. Maybe Kelly had pro-Trump posts, maybe he didn't. I don't know.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/261-politics/79429962

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SocialistGamer
04/28/21 4:31:45 PM
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Hes not on today.

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Bio1590
04/28/21 4:35:53 PM
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SocialistGamer posted...
Hes not on today.

Yes because he lost yesterday.
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Bio1590
04/28/21 4:38:53 PM
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Oh yeah I totally forgot about the "Gypsies" answer as well.
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WilliamPorygon
04/28/21 4:41:41 PM
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A couple years ago they banned players from wagering numbers like $1488, of course these assholes took it as some kind of "oh really, well we'll show them" challenge. I guess now they're gonna have to make a rule that everyone has to stand perfectly still during the introductions too.

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Lord_Shadow_19
04/28/21 4:42:46 PM
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Doom_Art posted...
It's like the chuds doing this don't realize that people can tell the difference very easily.

If you're just casually making the OK sign like everyone else does you're not creepily positioning yourself towards the camera and making it very obvious.

The very fact that this topic exists as well as the story its referencing proves that you're wrong.

Also, if Bio is on your side, you know you messed up somewhere.

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WilliamPorygon
04/28/21 4:44:35 PM
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VideoboysaysCube posted...
Is there anything left today that doesn't have the potential to be seen as offensive? It seems like every word and gesture has some hidden meaning. I mean, just look at Urban Dictionary. Type in any random word and it'll have some sexual connotation. This snowflake generation is out of control.

I didn't even know about this gesture or it being offensive until this whole story started last night. Probably because I'm a) not a racist and b) have better things to do than look up every single potentially offensive thing so I know not to say or do it.

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Zeeak4444
04/28/21 4:46:16 PM
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I cant tell how many people here who deny white supremacy every chance they get actually met anyone affiliated with a WS gang/organization.

I cant tell whats willful denial anymore and whats outright malicious obfuscation.

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