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This is not guilt by association. He didn’t happen to be around when they took the photo, he’s clearly enjoying having the Pepe flag in it.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vkSEmNoqhZY/maxresdefault.jpg

I wasn’t going to mention it because sometimes I think it’s just 4chan trying to have a laugh by making everything appear controversial, but the guy on the left is doing a pseudo white nationalist symbol (even though again, I’ve heard it’s not, but sometimes yes? I don’t know everything is confusing now.)

I judge people by their actions as much as their words. And this, to me, is a very strange photo.

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> the guy on the left is doing a pseudo white nationalist symbol (even though again, I’ve heard it’s not, but sometimes yes?

No, it's not now, and never was. It's always been the "OK" symbol, and always will be (as in, "Everything's okay over here!"). That was just some pathetic campaign from the left to get someone in trouble that merely disagreed with the "agenda".

It even has it's own emoji and wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture

Relevant article. The plausible deniability of the gesture seems to be part of its appeal to 4chan and Proud Boy trolls.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white...

Pretty sure the appeal is the outrage it triggers.

Ok so us normies out here who use the ok gesture and have no idea about the stupid 4 chan meme are going to be considered white nationalists now? Seems like a good way to make a problem where there isn't one.

“Normies” don’t use the word “normie”, and the label of harm applied by the SPLC isn’t prescriptivist, your beef is with the white nationalist Internet kids.

This is a Pepe flag, MAGA hat plus the “OK” sign with three fingers up.

Again I like Peterson. But keep saying this is a coincidence or innocent photo... I don’t know, I wouldn’t be caught dead in this photo.

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