Originally Posted by
cwolff
Oh I'm not denying that this hand gesture has been around for a very very long time. Of course not. You're being obtuse to pretend that Milo, and Richard Spencer and others aren't using it differently. Not just as a shout out to their racist followers (the trump base basically) but also because it's got built in plausible deniability. Like so many things in the dog whistle trumplican world. They love their racism, love to deny it and when pressed claim it's because SJW's made them do it.