Army-Navy game: White Power hand symbol appears to be used during pregame broadcast

Kids for years where I am from do it ... the object is to get the other person to look at your hand. If they look at it you get to punch them in the shoulder. It’s called the circle game.
I believe the hand has to be displayed below the waist in order for it to be a valid "look".
and the fingers should point down, so not the OK symbol are talking about
I base this on my own shipboard experience 40 years ago.
Never saw it again until I started getting group photos from my son while he attended Project Go.
He commented the cadets from a particular SMC seemed obsessed with the game.
 
My #3 DS’s HS utilizes E-Days for closings best of both worlds. Teachers post assignments due by 7pm
As much as I hate to admit it, Google Classroom has changed my life. My district is playing loose and fast with the number of snow days which is twelve. They added minutes onto each school day so we meet the number of hours required by state DOE. At the end of the year, people figure since we didn't use eight or whatever snow days we should get out for the summer early. It doesn't work like that since we never really had days but hours which does not translate mathematically. I guess.
 
My #3 DS’s HS utilizes E-Days for closings best of both worlds. Teachers post assignments due by 7pm

What? When I was in school - a snow day was my day!
I believe the hand has to be displayed below the waist in order for it to be a valid "look".
and the fingers should point down, so not the OK symbol are talking about
I base this on my own shipboard experience 40 years ago.
Never saw it again until I started getting group photos from my son while he attended Project Go.
He commented the cadets from a particular SMC seemed obsessed with the game.

Dirty 30 at USNA all do it ... minorities and whites alike ... it represents 30.
 
On another note- how do I now signal to my dive partner that I'm OK?
I took the PADI class when stationed in Hawaii and the first hand signal taught by the instructor was making an O with thumb and index finger and the remaining three fingers remained straight. I think the guy was a white supremacist or something. Except he was Samoan. I don't know. Now I'm confused.
 
I talked to both my MIDN and my candidate about this last night. Our takeaway was this: it’s a weird, strange and sometimes sad world we live in nowadays. So many things OFFEND someone....at any moment, any one of us is at the risk of loosing everything bc of viral, ‘offensive’ moments out of context. Once that trains starts rolling....there is NO stopping it. OBVIOUSLY this is the circle “gotcha” part, NOT white power. Obviously. Common sense. But that’s all gone out the window when our current Cancel Culture decides to create the narrative. Exactly what happened yesterday. Potentially some big recourse/consequence.

It happens every single day. And our discussion surrounded how I sure wouldn’t want to try and grow up in these times.

 
....btw, there is still an emoji for OK...I was going to do the emoji, but is it offensive now 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Bet it’s gone soon from the iPhone.
 
....aaaand here is the coverage on TODAY show......that poor MIDN.
 
On twitter, the same group that find fault with this circle game are the same ones defending the first amendment right of Kaepernick to kneel during the national anthem.
If it weren't for double standards...

Never mind.
 
I actually got in a lot of trouble for doing this same thing.

I lead my class's student section, and in a picture promoting our big rivalry game I made the gesture below my waist with the caption "Hey (rival school) check out my right hand"

I got called into my sponsor's office and got a stern talking to. That wasn't the end of it. I got called into the principal's office and had to explain myself.

I feel like this symbol isn't a symbol of hate. I've been playing this game with my friends since middle school. (About 6 years now) Never once have I used it as a symbol of hate.

It's always bothered me that people have tried to make it out to be one.
 
I actually got in a lot of trouble for doing this same thing.

I lead my class's student section, and in a picture promoting our big rivalry game I made the gesture below my waist with the caption "Hey (rival school) check out my right hand"

I got called into my sponsor's office and got a stern talking to. That wasn't the end of it. I got called into the principal's office and had to explain myself.

I feel like this symbol isn't a symbol of hate. I've been playing this game with my friends since middle school. (About 6 years now) Never once have I used it as a symbol of hate.

It's always bothered me that people have tried to make it out to be one.

LOL I first learned about the game in my late 20s in the mid 90s. My younger coworkers did it in college and high school. They would slap the other person’s neck if they caught them looking.

At our office they used to do it ... and accuse the other guy of looking at their butts or private parts.

The funniest part to me - you can’t not see it when someone does it. You can pretend not to see it -but you always give it away by laughing.
 
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