SC Dem who smeared cadets, calls them 'immature'

Rep. Mandy Powers Norrell (D-SC) without knowing what she was talking about, gave the white supremacists at 4chan the credibility they crave, while attacking West Point cadets. And then, instead of making an actual apology for her clueless claim, she blamed the cadets for needing "sensitivity training" and attacked those who wanted her to apologize--fat chance of getting a leftist to apologize for anything.

It's always the liberals who commit the offense they blame on others. [Think Antifa claiming they're against fascism. Or Al Sharpton calling a Republican a racist.]

About two weeks ago during the Army-Navy game, cadets were seen on camera playing what is known as "the circle game." It's where one guy flashes the "OK" sign below his waist and if another guy looks down at it, the first guy gets to punch him in the arm. We played that in the Marine Corps and those who got caught looking were called "guppies," because they were easy to catch.

Norell's tweet:

"Three separate cadets making the white power symbol on television. Wonder what the culture is like for the cadet in the front. There’s no excuse and he and other minorities there shouldn’t have to deal with such a cruel and disrespectful environment.”

But Norrell falsely claimed that the young men playing the game were flashing "white power" signs, which actually started as a rumor that the real white supremacists on 4chan started saying that the OK sign symbolized white power. In effect, Norrell gave the real racists the credibility they want.

In her apology, she called the cadets “immature” and demanded that there be sensitivity training at the service academies to educate the cadets because hand signals mean “different things to different people.” [Especially Democrats who see everything in terms of identity, racism and victimhood, much like people with anxiety disorders who see the world as a dangerous place at all times.]

Unable to admit her mistake, Norrell then attacked those who pointed out her false statements as being “Twitter trolls.”

Several days after her tweets, the "racism whisperer" remained silent as calls grew for her to apologize for her false accusations against the cadets and after multiple media publications reached out to her for comment in recent days.

In her apology letter, which was addressed to Lt. General Darryl A. Williams and Vice Admiral Sean Buck, Norrell wrote:

On December 14, I retweeted a post regarding the racially charged hand gestures displayed by cadets and midshipmen at the Army-Navy game. I publicly expressed my concerns regarding their judgement and intent, as well as the environment at the two military academies. I took down my Twitter post when I realized soon after that the matter was becoming bigger and more volatile than the circumstances seemed to merit. I was pleased to see the findings of the academies’ investigations, showing that the young men’s conduct was merely immature and not intended to be malicious or racist.

I have written letters to the young men expressing my regret for adding fuel to the firestorm and offering them encouragement as they continue their studies and careers. I request that you forward these letters to them, as I do not know their names. I hope they can learn from this moment — as I have — that words, gestures and symbols matter, and that they may mean different things to different people.

Also, I want to take this opportunity to earnestly apologize to your institutions for some of the words I used in publicly describing the environment surrounding the incident as potentially “cruel and disrespectful” to minority members of the service. Though my concerns are sincere, those words were typed in the passion of the moment and without proper reflection.

Norrell went on to claim that the reason she assumed the cadets were flashing “white power” signs was because she has “always held our men and women in uniform” to “a higher standard of conduct,” which seems to contradict why she would make the assumption in the first place.

“Ironically, I now apologize to you and your institutions for me not being more mindful of those same character traits within myself when choosing words to post on social media,” Norrell later added. “I am confident that you and your staffs will seize this moment to incorporate the sideways “OK” hand gesture into any social awareness and sensitivity orientation your institutions provide.”

No. Don't incorporate any of that crap. Use the OK gesture to symbolize "OK" and to play the circle game because by refusing to give power to people who want to steal our symbols and change our culture is one of the ways of fighting racism, not by bowing to racists.

On Friday, the U.S. Military Academy released, in a series of tweets, the findings of their investigation into the cadets over the hand gestures that they used at the football game.

“The U.S. Military Academy announced today it has concluded an internal investigation of the cadets who displayed hand gestures during a broadcast of ESPN College GameDay at the Army-Navy game Dec. 14,” the U.S. Military Academy tweeted. “The investigating officer concluded that the cadets were playing a common game, popular among teenagers today, known as the ‘circle game’ and the intent was not associated with ideologies or movements that are contrary to the Army values.”

Despite playing an innocent game during a college football rivalry game, the U.S. Military Academy added, “based on the results of the investigation, those cadets involved will receive appropriate administrative and/or disciplinary actions.” Thanks to the female Fredo of the Left.


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