Rita Panahi: Demand for racism outstrips supply

What a shame the Eagles rebuked three players for making the “OK” sign when it should’ve instead told the media to stop being hysterical ninnies.

West Coast has given into the loony Left outrage mob and rebuked a number of players for making the “OK” sign in a team photo after ABC journalist Alex Mann posted pictures including one zooming in to the hand of a player with his thumb and forefinger touching.

The players, Jack Redden, Alex Witherden and Jamaine Jones who is indigenous, were clearly playing the ‘circle game’ but Twitter’s outraged Lefties saw it as a celebration of white supremacy.

For the final time the OK sign is not a symbol of white supremacy.

That was a hoax by an online forum called 4Chan where users tried to trick the media into believing the OK sign was deeply racist.

It was a joke that has somehow become gospel among the race-obsessed Left.

Comic Magda Szubanski made a similar claim against First Lady Jenny Morrison and we all know how that turned out.

After Mann’s tweet went viral, a number of folk stepped forward to school the silly sausage and caution him against suggesting that young men, including an Indigenous footballer, are white supremacists or making a white supremacist sign when they were clearly just having a little fun playing the circle game.

Players Jack Redden, Alex Witherden and Jamaine Jones were accused of making a white supremacy gesture.

Associate professor of political science, Wilfred Reilly, who is African American, was among those who explained to the ABC journalist and other perturbed nincompoops the origins of their warped ideas about the OK symbol.

He wrote: “What’s truly amazing about this is that 4channers started a joking campaign, just a few years back, to label the OK symbol a sign of extreme white supremacy via anon-bots — to prove mainstream leftists will believe anything. It worked.”

Another popular tweep, AF632 posted: “Didn’t realise journalists were so out of touch they not only can’t imagine the circle game is pretty common, but also they can’t even be bothered to do the research on it.”

Yes, a few trolls on an online forum in 2017 played a joke and now, we have football clubs reproaching players for making the symbol in photos.

What a shame the Eagles didn’t just tell the media to stop being hysterical ninnies but instead responded earnestly with: “We have asked questions and it is all to do with the circle game ... It’s juvenile and should not have been a part of the post-game photo.”

Race-baiters seem increasingly desperate to find signs of racism. It seems the demand for racism is outstripping supply.