It’s hard to tell who the racists are, and who the trolls are. There’s a lot of racism over at 4chan where this originated, but there are also people who say racist things because they just want to be offensive. It’s funny to see people get upset when there’s no repercussions for it.
I don’t think Trump is a racist in the white supremist way but more just a product of his time. I am probably not explaining myself very well but I have come across a lot of older people who would not class themselves as racists but will use terms that today are not acceptable.
However, there is no doubt that Trump has validated the worst sort of racists and bigots in society. We see this on this very forum where a number of posters since Trump came onto the political scene have made comments expressed ideas that are expose their true opinions.
Trump has had ample opportunities to publicly decry the emergence into the public of a vein of hard core hatred yet he has not. This is a man who loves to use Twitter to rant and rave, call the media the enemy, demand investigations into those who politically oppose him yet he cannot formulate a well thought out condemnation of the racist and bigots who think Trump is leading them to a new more pure America.
I think the only instance I might give the A-OK sign is if someone specifically asks me “are you okay?” However, if i’m responding by a hand sign, it’s going be 50/50 between that and the Thumbs Up.
If the kid was black at an Obama rally, republicans would be screaming indoctrination and questioning why a parent would bring a kid to a plotical rally.