MEDIA WATCH: That little prick in the MAGA hat knew exactly what he was doing buuuuuuuut

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National’s teen candidate William Wood deletes photo with white supremacist-linked gesture

Simon Bridges is defending National’s teenage candidate after he removed an image on his Facebook page showing a friend pulling a hand gesture associated with white supremacists. 

“My understanding is that’s not what it is,” Bridges, National leader, told reporters in Parliament on Tuesday. “I don’t think there’s a lot in it.”

William Wood, National’s 17-year-old Palmerston North candidate, removed the image of him and five male friends outside Parliament from his personal Facebook page. 

The group of boys had been attending a mock United Nations summit at Parliament in Wellington representing different countries. 

The imaged showed a friend of Wood, wearing a hat with US President Donald Trump’s election slogan “Make America Great Again” and pulling his thumb and index finger together to form the “Okay” gesture. 

That “Okay” gesture, however, is today associated with white supremacist groups. The symbol can be made to look like the letters “w” and “p” to stand for “white power”. 

The gesture was pulled by the accused Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant when he appeared at the Christchurch District Court in March. 

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Bridges suggested the gesture was harmless because Wood’s friend was impersonating the US President who often pulls it while he’s presenting speeches. 

Because Trump does it isn’t a defence.

That little prick in the MAGA hat knew exactly what he was doing, buuuuut I don’t think it should be a reflection on William Woods, we all have dickhead mates at 17 and this is an example of that rather than genuine malice on Woods behalf.

Woods has received an enormous amount of criticism for winning the nomination at 17, but if we are truly a representative democracy then 18 year olds have the right to represent and be represented.

I support Woods as a candidate because young people should be in Parliament and along with having young people in Parliament, there should be some leeway for having dick mates.

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  1. Unfortunately the news media are unreliable on this sort of stuff. Not to mention that there’re good arguments why the okay hand gesture is not a white supremacist gesture. Doing backflips over a hand gesture and a hats isn’t news.

    • Sam – A hat can be news if you’re John Key and wearing one or other, or no hat at all, when communicating with friends, or with not-friends. It’s called hategorising.

      • David Stone: I agree with you. A big song and dance over nothing in particular.

        Though I will say that I think people of his age are much too young to be standing for parliament. In my view, MPs need a bit of life experience. They can’t have it in their teens. Not their fault, of course: just a feature of youth.

        Hey! I’m an old fart: so sue me…

    • anybody can discriminate white people or anybody who support Trump anybody can get forced out of work in Hollywood and in many places for supporting our president but if a teenager does s hand gestures He is labeled a white supremacist by the same people that are discriminating everybody else
      We all know what you are trying to do with this post with this fake news

      • Just another useless so called journalist spewing the same old crap trying to get a rise out of a few morons that are threatened by a ball cap and a hang sign that’s been around for 100s of years meaning ok to people without brain dmg.

      • That only make sense if white supremacist criminals and terrorists are being given a free pass. Ten years ago maybe but not now. Not after what happened in Christchurch.

    • Sam; “Not to mention that there’re good arguments why the okay hand gesture is not a white supremacist gesture. Doing backflips over a hand gesture and a hats isn’t news.”

      4 mins 15 secs ,,,, Is the christchurch white subpremacist doing the ‘OK’ symbol because he is ok?? ,,, or is it a call out to ‘his people’ ,,, https://youtu.be/cXZ6BZzQeCQ

      … Doing the signal while wearing that hat ….. is a shout out to white subpremacists

      The Hat …. 17 mins 55 secs https://youtu.be/Sx4BVGPkdzk

      Potential terrorists are still given a free pass in NZ ,,,, of the anti govt / anti tax, sovereign citizen type. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand

      Their designated terrorist ideology would make these doomsday preppers Prime suspects for gun hoarding https://youtu.be/mTPhOAeip4s

      • People on social media do not the right to to say who is a white supremacist terrorist. Once people with a misguided sense of hate speech have there way with controlling free-speech thus knocking over all the rights that protect vulnerable people. Could you then imagin if some one like Jordan Peterson retaliates in reply saying postmodernist Neo Marxist hate speech ect. Wtf are you coming to me with YouTube bulshit for, leave this stuff up to the courts to decide.

        • The Christcurch killer was a white subpremacist terrorist ,,, only a fool would deny that ,,, he’d deny it too ,,,, saying he was a western culture ethno nationalist defender ,,, then he’d flash the ok sign and wink at you.

          Social media and things like youtube is how they communicate and network ,,,,, sharing things like their “Great replacement” philosophy ,,, and insider slogans, insignia, and call signs ,,, like the ok hand symbol.

          Trump is also a symbol for them ,,, MAGA

          Being educated and calling out racist dog whistles or ‘foul speech’ is fine ,,, ironically you seem to want to take away ‘the right’ of those speaking out against white subpremacy,,,,, controlling people from calling out the insignia.

          The videos are interesting and educational ,,, but I’m not posting them ‘at’ you,,, its more for those who like to be guided by knowledge.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcklYVR5I-I
          https://youtu.be/q4hBWafxt6s

          • Not even close. We have to keep track of the system of racism not the individual. No one can deny that there’s been an escalation of billionaires. No one can deny that working people are not benefiting and no one can deny that Hillary Clinton was the billionaires candidate. Trump was an opportunist speaking to the downtrodden, and the working class didn’t so much abandon the democrats as the democrats have abandoned the working class. Is that relevant to people here in New Zealand or is it all about muh outrage Olympics.

            So before you start going oh those people over there are mean to me you have to analyse wealth and inequality and then come to terms with racism. For that we can cover slavery and the American civil war but basically equal rights and the abolition of slavery are false promises. Capitalism has indeed replaced slavery but it is not producing equal rights and son on. So individuals are not the tool of equal rights and so on, it’s capitalism that is the biggest obstacle that we face and that’s the impetuous of how Trumpism operates.

            • Your not even close ,,,,, it was the lack of keeping track of the openly racist individual which allowed the preventable christchurch terror attack to take place.

              I believe the young dickhead in the MAGA hat, flashing hand signals like the christchurch killer in the dock ,,, absolutly knew what messaging he was sending.

              Many Americans have noted Trump and the extreme right ,,, using the language and taking the actions,,, on the journey to American fascism.

              President Donald Trump, Animals, and the Rise of Fascism – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUdwpsgbAv4

              The Fake Border Crisis, Steve King, and Our Lying, Racist President – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pei4boOUaBQ

              • Brenton Tarrant is an Australian. How does that kind of survalience even operate? I do not condone looking upon every tourist with suspicion. And I do not condon profiling.

                And you’ve mistook the rise of American fascism for the fall of American capitalism.

  2. The news is a young person becoming a National Party candidate. Its bordering on child abuse. What is that exposure ever going to do that is positive for this young man?
    Imagine sharing the same room as some of those miserable self entitled pricks whose favorite sport is to kick those who are down and learn to lie seamlessly.

    Mate, consider a career as a mercenary, used car salesman or drug dealer , far more honourable!

    • I think this child candidate was fired from his career at the ferry terminal with his permanent marker face paint and plastic skirt, appropriating Maori culture. A National Party huckster is his only option now.

  3. One can’t but assume racism is part of the cultural mix of the group and their wider family and friends. At the age of 17 none of my friends were racists. We didn’t find it a problem distinguishing between who was a racist and who wasn’t and wouldn’t have considered supporting someone who was one (and we lived in town not dissimilar to Palmerston North). Maybe it’s time to treat 17 year olds as 17 year olds and not ten year olds

    • ?…weird!….anyone notice that the guy in the red cap has a dark skinned mate /comrade standing next to him?….they probably have their arms around each other…why hasn’t anyone noticed this?…dont dark skinned people count for anything?

      …what this indicates is no eyes to see ( racism in itself)…and hypocrisy

      ….what a beat up about nothing this Post is … and bringing out the virtue signalers

      https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/474968-intolerance-politic-as-religion/

  4. Well Martyn, since you want to bring up “genitalia”, if you going to play with yourself, please do it in private…we don’t need to see or hear your NASTY-SELF. Seems that you’re desperate for attention with the need to be publicly praised for nothing. You should have done this when Epstein’s Island was still in operation. In Germany that’s NOT the sign of a supremacist but it’s a sign of an ASSHOLE and it seems like you fell for it

  5. What a load of crap. That hand gesture has always meant “OK,” it never had anything to do with white power untill some racist prick made it so.
    And anyone who says it’s a racist gesture is a racist.

    • Some racist prick did not make it out to be a racist gesture it was a troll by 4chan just like it’s ok to be white or Islam is right about women. It just show as who is the real racist and bigots are. The media fell for the troll, just like the author of this article summary with no journalistic integrity

  6. I think that this selfie proves that this guy has not reached the level of maturity you would want too see in your prospective MP.
    If i was serious about wanting too represent constituents in parliament then i would think twice about exposing myself too this type of stupidity.
    It says a lot about the standards of the National party.
    But the same could be said for many of the current sitting MPs who have like Sarah Goudie and JLR too mention a few are obvious role models for young people who want a career in parliament as National MPs.

  7. It’s a f*cking okay symbol! Stop making so damn much out of it unless someone SAYS they are using it in some other context! It’s not like the nazi salute which has only one meaning! Some liberal prick started this bullsh*t of it being something other than an okay symbol! Or maybe Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop was flashing the white power sign?

    GET THE F*CK OVER YOURSELVES AND YOUR HATRED OF PUR PRESIDENT!

    Jesus what a crock!

  8. In my experience I’ve ran into more racist black people then white I’ve been kicked out of customer house just because I was white actually called my boss and told him to send someone black or not at all if it was other way around national news

  9. Got one for ya. Fuck this website.
    Officially blocking from my feed.
    You’re trash, you hate inspiring bag of shit.

    • Meanwhile, out in the real world:

      “Former All Black Sonny Bill Williams has teamed up with old teammates to raise funds for families impacted by the measles outbreak in Samoa, with the crowdfunding page raising over $50,000 in its first day.”

  10. I must say that wannabe National MP has all the hallmarks and appearances of being a spoilt arrogant little prick. Much like so many existing National MPs.

    • ..or precious sanctimonious Green MPs( how of many of them went on the anti Springbok Tour protests?)

      …lets just say that this new hand signal is news to me and I will try and use it where ever possible in future because I reckon it means A- OK and it rubs precious pricks up the wrong way ( anyone know where you can get some red caps….I wanna one for Christmas)

      my Mother ( who WAS on the anti Springbok Tour Protests and accidentally in the front line facing Blue Squad)…also learned the two finger salute off Barry Goldwater who gave it to them out the back window as she protested with radical friends against him at Christchurch airport….she was very amused!

      lets not forget these r young kids…Prince Harry once created a furore being dressed as a Nazi at a fancy dress party …and look how he turned out….lets just say he is no racist Nazi !

  11. Seems after reading the comments some people like dishing it but don’t like receiving. He is a boy and we will see how he handles debating with the big boys & girls he might need a box of tissues by the time some of them have finished with him

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