Circle Game Or White Supremacy Gesture? Cubs Investigate

So, you want to get on TV, huh? The Cubs sent out this press release after a fan was caught on camera flashing the “OK” sign behind Cubs analyst Doug Glanville during Tuesday night’s game against the Marlins. Maybe you have no clue that a common gesture has turned into a sign of racism, but […]

So, you want to get on TV, huh?

The Cubs sent out this press release after a fan was caught on camera flashing the “OK” sign behind Cubs analyst Doug Glanville during Tuesday night’s game against the Marlins.

A statement from the Cubs in the wake of an on-air incident tonight… pic.twitter.com/7lfbktbATa

— Jordan Bastian (@MLBastian) May 8, 2019

Maybe you have no clue that a common gesture has turned into a sign of racism, but guess what, just because you’re ignorant to it, it doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Via the Anti-Defamation league:

In 2017, the “okay” hand gesture acquired a new and different significance thanks to a hoax by members of the website 4chan to falsely promote the gesture as a hate symbol, claiming that the gesture represented the letters “wp,” for “white power.” The “okay” gesture hoax was merely the latest in a series of similar 4chan hoaxes using various innocuous symbols; in each case, the hoaxers hoped that the media and liberals would overreact by condemning a common image as white supremacist. In the case of the “okay” gesture, the hoax was so successful the symbol became a popular trolling tactic on the part of right-leaning individuals, who would often post photos to social media of themselves posing while making the “okay” gesture. Ironically, some white supremacists themselves soon also participated in such trolling tactics, lending an actual credence to those who labeled the trolling gesture as racist in nature. By 2019, at least some white supremacists seem to have abandoned the ironic or satiric intent behind the original trolling campaign and used the symbol as a sincere expression of white supremacy, such as when Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant flashed the symbol during a March 2019 courtroom appearance soon after his arrest for allegedly murdering 50 people in a shooting spree at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Am I seeing things or is this jack wagon behind Glanville flashing the white supremacy sign? @SarahSpain @BleacherNation pic.twitter.com/6p7d79vIVR

— Chad Rehan (@ChadRehan) May 8, 2019

There’s also the “circle game” which you most likely played in school. Basically a “made you look” game.

The Cubs will make a decision on what to do with the fan.