The Far-Left "OK" Conspiracy So Nuts Even CNN Calls Them out
The far left is once again claiming that the ok sign is a secret dog whistle and that Zina Bash, by simply crossing her arms in an odd way, was signaling a certain group of people. But this is insane nonsense. They are sharing a simple video of a random woman crossing her arms, thats it. Whats funny here is that some of these people pushing the conspiracy have, in the past, called for Alex Jones to banned over pushing a conspiracy theory. It seems like we have another case of "its ok when we do it" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li7xxMaKqlo&index=2&list=PLxQaod7tWvYKEVcKAEvH3BVpeqbAlhSdR&t=0s
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It's times like these I really do question the value of social media because it would seem like everyone has just gone insane.
We are experiencing another far-left conspiracy theory around the OK hand sign.
So let me just start by saying the OK hand sign does not mean white power.
It never has.
This was a hoax perpetrated by 4chan.
Now it's just a symbol that typically shows you're a Trump supporter or you want to trigger the libs.
It doesn't have anything to do with white power, but yes, there are probably people who are white nationals who use it because it's actually about triggering the left, not about white power.
So a lot of people use it for a variety of reasons.
But people actually believe right now that a woman who was sitting behind Brett Kavanaugh during the Supreme Court hearings Flashed the white power hand gesture as a dog whistle.
They're saying that she got a text message, realized she was on TV, and then made the subtle hand sign to let everyone know that she's a white supremacist.
This is a conspiracy theory.
It is absolute and utter nonsense.
It's literally just a video of some woman crossing her arms.
And some of these same people who are freaking out over this and spreading this lie, this misinformation, called for Alex Jones to be banned because they said he was also spreading conspiracy theories.
And you know what?
Even CNN has called this out as complete and utter nonsense.
So today, let's take a look at the utter hypocrisy from far-left conspiracy theorists, and we'll start with the root.
Now, the root is far-left.
And they frame this as, did it happen?
Which is a bit more honest than some other outlets, which we'll get to.
But they said, did a woman sitting behind Kavanaugh flash the white power symbol during his hearing?
And they show this photo where you can see a woman has her arms crossed and her hand is just in a strange position.
Therefore, see, no one's ever gonna cross their arms like this.
The only explanation is that she is flashing white power to the world.
They start by asking, Did a former Trump immigration policy employee and wife of a United States attorney flash a white power symbol during Brett Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation hearing?
Zina Bash is a 36-year-old woman who previously served as the deputy director of policy and communications for Ted Cruz's failed presidential run in 2016.
She has made the rounds in Washington, D.C., having worked for Senator John Cornyn as well as current U.S.
On Tuesday, Bash was at the center of controversy on social media where many accused her of making a white power sign during Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing.
In video from the hearing, Bash can be seen sitting directly behind Kavanaugh, looking smug and at times smirking as Democrats speak during the hearing.
One of her hands is making the OK symbol, which has been co-opted by Trump supporters, white supremacists, and members of the alt-right in an effort to troll people on the left, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The author ends the story by saying, please attempt to quote,
randomly test your hand in the same way Zina Bash did during the hearing,
and let us know if it feels natural. We're asking for a friend.
Now, it sounds kind of like she's implying that it's an unnatural position that no one would ever do,
so maybe it really is. But hey, at least she's asking a question instead of making a definitive statement.
If she made a statement of fact, yeah, maybe she could get sued.
So by legal standards, she probably has to just ask the question.
But that's not stopping other outlets from stating it as more of a fact that she apparently did do this.
This story from the Mary Sue is a bit more definitive.
This is the woman appearing to flash white power signs during Brett Kavanaugh's SCOTUS confirmation hearing.
They mention, those watching the hearings from home also took notice of another distraction, a woman sitting directly behind Kavanaugh who spent much of the first day smugly smirking when Democrats spoke.
But at some point, she appeared to take the turn from smug to full white supremacy.
And then they show us the tweet and the infamous video.
This is from Keith R. Dumas.
Who is she?
What's up with the white power sign?
And I hope all of you watching at home are ready to see just how egregious the action was.
So here we can see, sitting behind Brett is a woman.
And she's got her arms crossed, but look at that weird position of her fingers.
It makes no sense.
The only explanation that anyone could possibly come up with Is that she's a secret Mexican Jewish white supremacist who wants to make sure the whole world knows it.
And this video has 4.1 million views.
I hope you all realize I'm being facetious.
This is literally just a video of a woman crossing her arms and nothing else.
And they're acting like because her arms are in a weird position, that proves that she must be flashing a white supremacy hand gesture.
Which it doesn't.
This is literally insane.
And what's particularly interesting about all of this is that Eugene Gu, M.D., pushed this video by saying, Kavanaugh's former law clerk, Zina Bash, is flashing a white power hand sign behind him during his Senate confirmation hearing.
They literally want to bring white supremacy to the Supreme Court.
What a national outrage and a disgrace to the rule of law.
Which is really interesting because, for one, this is complete and total nonsense,
and at the same time, Eugene also tweeted, to much acclaim, Banning Alex Jones from YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and
Spotify is not enough.
He should turn over all his assets to the parents of the Sandy Hook Massacre whom he attacked and
defamed so brutally. Which says to me we're just seeing another high profile case of,
it's okay when we do it. This man is defaming a woman who did nothing,
She's just sitting behind a guy with her arms crossed and her fingers are in a weird position that literally means nothing.
And he's definitively stating that she is flashing a white power hand gesture.
That's not true.
He is defaming this woman.
By his own standards, he should turn over his assets, right?
There are high-profile people who have built massive followings on Twitter and other social platforms by pushing sensationalist conspiracy theory nonsense.
It's not just Alex Jones for the people who accuse him.
These people are doing the exact same thing.
So much so that this has become a mainstream news story.
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But back to the story.
CBS News actually covered this this morning.
U.S.
Attorney defends wife after accusations she made white power sign at Kavanaugh hearing.
The husband of Zina Bash, one of Brett Kavanaugh's former law clerks, came to her defense after video circulated of Bash making a hand gesture that people online considered to be a white power sign during the Supreme Court nominee's Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday.
John Bash, U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Texas, called the accusations repulsive on Twitter.
A clip shows Bash, who is in direct view of TV cameras, appearing to hold her thumb and index finger into an O shape.
Actually, personally, I'm going to reject that notion because I don't think she's actually making an O shape.
However, they say, with her other fingers extended, the gesture is commonly known as the OK sign, but has been associated with white supremacists recently.
Twitter users accused Bash, who served in the Trump administration as an advisor on immigration policy, of making a white power symbol.
Attorney John Bash said, The attacks today on my wife are repulsive.
Everyone tweeting this vicious conspiracy theory should be ashamed of themselves.
We weren't even familiar with the hateful symbol being attributed to her for the random way she rested her hand during a long hearing.
Zina is Mexican on her mother's side and Jewish on her father's side.
She was born in Mexico. Her grandparents were Holocaust survivors.
We, of course, have nothing to do with hate groups which aim to terrorize and demean other people.
Never have and never would.
Some of the Twitter comments have even referred to our baby daughter.
I know that there are good folks on both sides of the political divide.
I hope that people will clearly condemn this idiotic and sickening accusation.
When 4chan created the hoax...
When 4chan was pushing this hoax, I made a video about it.
And I conceded that, you know what?
4chan won.
They did it.
Because either it is a white power hand gesture, or even when someone acknowledges that it originated as a hoax, they say, oh yeah, well, now it is a white power hand gesture.
And that's absolutely psychotic.
You know why?
Why would you give an online forum the ability to create any symbol they want?
If that's the case, they can just decide to make anything they want a symbol.
In fact, they did.
They started claiming that milk was a symbol of white supremacy, and then a bunch of people associated with the right started drinking milk, and then we actually saw a document released by Sweden that says white supremacists are using milk as a symbol of white purity.
You are handing power over to small fringe groups and then freaking out when random people just put their hands like this, like, cross their arms and, oh no!
Oh, look at my hand!
People are nuts.
This is it.
I sometimes question whether or not social media is worth it.
Because when you allow everyone to speak, you end up with people who are just Not all there.
I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but it's clearly impaired in some way.
Saying things that make no sense and advocating for things that make no sense, but because they're loud and sensational, people believe it.
It's much more exciting to believe that this woman is a white supremacist, even though she's Mexican and Jewish, than it is to just be like, I don't know, it's literally just a lady crossing her arms.
Fortunately though, CNN's Brian Stelter even called this out.
He said hopefully Rubin KD, Amy Siskind, and Eva Gollinger and the other resistance tweeters who spread this quote white power symbol nonsense will take a long hard look in the mirror.
Awful.
People on Twitter were screaming, punch a Nazi, and now they're accusing this woman of being a white supremacist simply for crossing her arms in a strange way.
What would happen to her if a mob was outside looking to punch Nazis and they saw her?
I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the future Zina Bash faces some kind of protest simply because she crossed her arms the wrong way.
And that really is terrifying.
It is.
But you know what?
I still think social media is worth it.
Because here I am correcting the record.
Here I am giving you a more rational view and highlighting this complete and total nonsense.
And I also want to point out something about the Kavanaugh hearing.
There's a lot of people protesting.
And that's also a really, really good thing.
I tweeted about this earlier.
about how awesome it is that we can live in a country where the weakest and poorest person can stand up
to the wealthiest and most powerful and give them the finger.
And for that, I think we do live in a great country.
And we have to recognize that with this kind of power, that an individual is on equal footing
with some of the most powerful elites in the country when it comes to expressing their ideas
and having their voice heard, you will sometimes get crazy people like Eugene
spreading complete and total nonsense.
So I don't think Eugene should be banned.
Although I'm terrified by him spreading this insane information, I'm terrified by the people who actually call for violence who probably should be banned, who don't get banned, but I'm also worried about people like Alex Jones getting banned simply because he says the same thing that these people do.
If you're gonna say that Alex Jones needs to be banned, then you need to be on board with this guy Eugene getting banned, too.
Maybe Eugene should take a long, hard look in the mirror.
He claims he did, but I really don't think he did.
Because I don't think he understands that the things he advocates for will one day come to bite him as well.
But let me know what you think in the comments below.
We'll keep the conversation going.
This is a far-left resistance conspiracy theory.
And I'd have to say that there is a 95% chance it is complete and total nonsense.
I admit, there is a small possibility this woman really did want to flash the OK sign.
It's not impossible, it's based in reality.
It's just absurd to assume that's what she was doing because she crossed her arms in a strange way.
It's also absurd to assume she's a white supremacist.
For some reason now, we have people on the left, typically white people, not always, Eugene's not white, but you have far leftists saying only white people can be racist, but here is a Mexican Jewish white supremacist woman.
None of it seems to make sense, and sometimes I have no idea what's going on.
I can only assume that some of these people are just...
Not all there, and are pushing insane conspiracies, or maybe, just maybe, it's a political agenda, and they want to win by any means necessary.
And if that means lying to people to scare them into supporting them, a rather authoritarian tactic, that may just be the case.
So anyway, comment below, we'll keep the conversation going.
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