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In reply to the discussion: Some thoughts on Alt-right Trolling. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to assume a sophisticated DC insider was giving white supremacist hand signals while sitting behind Trump's nominee to SCOTUS at his hearing.
That'd make her as stupidly dysfunctional as Trump himself and risk blowing up the hearings if the media believed it and took it seriously. Is this person up to her eyebrows in her husband's and her "team's" white supremacist atrocities guilty? It really is possible. But unless they confirm it that's all.
Meanwhile, I'm earnestly telling myself to remember that the cheery old okay sign still means just that to only 250 million Americans or so and will be taken by others as a Nazi dog whistle. I scarcely ever use it, but still. I don't want some passing stranger spitting in my face if I use it to signal a store's open or something to my husband across a parking lot.