Roast IF it isn't biased or ncompetent..... THEN it must be inciteful media coverage part II

[larrikin]

And the vast majority of people have no idea or interest in any of it

Here’s the thing, if you genuinely think the players were using that sign as a white supremacy signal (they weren’t) then call them out for it. But if the thing they were doing meant something completely unrelated then why even raise it unless you’re being a dickhead to fabricate some sort of gotcha moment

Welcome to Twitter

 

[RookiePick]

Depends, what colour milk are you having them with?

Spearmint

 

[Bender_]

Spearmint

You monster.

 

[Ishmael_]

Someone on Twitter is already tagging Hungry Jacks asking for them to stop sponsoring us. but in all honesty, it obviously had no racist meaning by the players (was a common game in high school where if you got someone to look at it you could punch them) but probably best not to do that symbol any more.

lol, this is the textbook playbook - anyone who has spent any time on Twitter knows it well.

Jump to the absolute worse conclusion, assert that something is 'literal violence', tag any sponsor, employer, or whoever and try to have them fired, de-platformed, or demonetised. Then when corrected - refuse to concede ground and instead assert that 'well they should have known', assuming that everyone has had their brain similarly broken by Twitter/social media.

When the predictable backlash ensues, you then claim harassment, and once again you're the victim.

The point is not to advance any sort of meaningful change or dialogue, but instead to make sure you send the correct signals to your in-group of similarly overly online, over-educated, over-medicated, and underemployed colleagues. That, and to generate engagement, which is both how to raise your profile and feed your narcissism.

 

[bh90210fan]

Can’t throw the ok sign. Can’t masterbate on an aeroplane. Everyones got so sensitive since 9/11. Thanks a lot Bin Laden.

 

[Bender_]

Can’t throw the ok sign. Can’t masterbate on an aeroplane. Everyones got so sensitive since 9/11. Thanks a lot Bin Laden.

You can still masturbate anywhere you'd like, it's the getting caught that's the issue.

 

[bh90210fan]

You can still masturbate anywhere you'd like, it's the getting caught that's the issue.

Masturbating on an aeroplane was only frowned upon before 9/11.

 

[ep2018]

Spearmint

Is spearmint milk still a thing? Loved it as a kid.

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

US:

When the O.K. Sign Is No Longer O.K. (Published 2019)

Here is how a hand gesture long seen as innocuous was appropriated to signify “white power.”

www.nytimes.com

UK:

OK hand sign added to list of hate symbols

An anti-hate group says the finger-and-thumb sign is being used as an "expression of white supremacy".

www.bbc.com

Australia:

The 'OK' hand gesture is now a hate symbol, but it's also a crucial part of sign languages

The “OK” hand gesture has come under increased scrutiny recently, after the alt-right movement claimed it stood for “white power”. Sign language communities are pushing back to reclaim the sign.

www.sbs.com.au

Yep SJW media

 

[BrotherDodge]

Here’s the thing, if you genuinely think the players were using that sign as a white supremacy signal (they weren’t) then call them out for it. But if the thing they were doing meant something completely unrelated then why even raise it unless you’re being a dickhead to fabricate some sort of gotcha moment

I'm sure if we had any open white supremacists on the team Naitanui would have throttled them by now, and rightly so. JJ would also be a pretty weird Nazi. Still, it's smarter not to make the same sneaky hand signal as the Christchurch shooter in your team photos, eh? I'm pretty sure someone will have a word, the players will go "yep fair enough," and that'll be the end of it.

 

[stinger05]

I'm sure if we had any open white supremacists on the team Naitanui would have throttled them by now, and rightly so. JJ would also be a pretty weird Nazi. Still, it's smarter not to make the same sneaky hand signal as the Christchurch shooter in your team photos, eh? I'm pretty sure someone will have a word, the players will go "yep fair enough," and that'll be the end of it.

JJ could be Tyrone Biggums

 

[kane249]

Can’t throw the ok sign. Can’t masterbate on an aeroplane. Everyones got so sensitive since 9/11. Thanks a lot Bin Laden.

You know mile high club doesn't count if you are by yourself right?

 

[Marlin01]

Reminds me of the Dave Chappelle sketch of the blind KKK leader.

 

[KERRPOW]

What was wrong with the Harry Highpants joke?

We got our pants pulled down the following week from memory

 

[Asapartyhat]

🖐🖐

There's me making a hand signal with my eleven fingers

 

[Altum Volantes]

Harry Highpants.

Circle Game/White Supremacy.

Looking forward to ‘Sneaky Balls’ after our next Derby win.

‘Em-BARRASS-ing: Outrage as Tom slips a bollock’

 

[Godfather32]

To be fair, it has been widely reported the same gesture has been used to show solidarity among white supremecists. I'm sure NicNat for one would know the connotation other than the circle game and not be keen on it.

I reckon there's a 100% possibility that Nic Nat only knows that symbol from playing the game when he was a kid.
Barely anyone on here knows it as anything else.

 

[chunkylover]

You know mile high club doesn't count if you are by yourself right?

There's a solo division of the club

 

[kane249]

There's a solo division of the club

That's not what the term cockpit means and you know it

 

[06Premiers]

How the alt-right co-opted the OK hand sign to fool the media

The media has been manipulated by extremists but focusing on the victims offers journalists a way to redress the balance

www.theguardian.com

Ultimately, this a game about power: if rightwing trolls can make the so-called liberal media look gullible, then it has a delegitimising effect, supporting the idea that journalists are oversensitive, easily triggered snowflakes. Soon enough, the news begins to feels like it belongs to a parody website rather than real life.

Pretty damn successful troll

 

[Tugga27]

Just watched OTC.

Healy said about Port "We'll give Port a mulligan seeing as it's their first bad loss of the year".

Must've missed their game against us

 

[FKASC]

Yep SJW media

Lemme guess - BBC is fake news?

 

[FKASC]

The Qanon sh*t started on 4chan too. A lot of seedy sh*t going on there.

I’m have no doubt there’d be a few people in this forum who believe QAnon

 

[Godfather32]

I’m have no doubt there’d be a few people in this forum who believe QAnon

$$Can't imagine who$$

 

[THE A5]

The thing about this is that the idiot who posted that wanted to make storm out of it and he did it by cropping the players heads out of it and zoomed in the photo. What followed suit was the predictable rage from the extreme left. Non of this would have happened had he just posted a zoomed in pic of the lads, people would have seen an indigenous kid doing it and put 1 and 2 together and realised it wasn't something racist.