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Universal Orlando is sued for $30K over photos of actor dressed as Minions villain Gru 'flashing white supremacist "OK" sign in photos with two young girls of color'
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 07/11/2021 5:31:38 PM PDT by algore

Two families sued Universal Orlando for $30,000 after an actor dressed as the Disney character 'Gru' flashed a white-power hand gesture in two separate photos with young girls of color.

The lawsuit - filed in Orange County, Florida on June 23 - includes the photos from February and March 2019 with the 'Despicable Me' character making the 'OK' white-supremacist hand gesture in both photos.

One of the victims is a six-year-old biracial girl and the other victim is a five-year-old Hispanic girl.

'He openly and pointedly displayed towards them a universally-known and universally-used hate symbol that indicates white power,' the lawsuit says.

'This white power hand signal has become openly and widely used to express hatred towards a segment of the population based upon a person's race, color and national origin, and it has prevalently and commonly been known as a hate symbol for years.'

The Anti-Defamation League considered the 'OK' hand gesture a form of hate speech in 2017.

The six year old ran up to the actor dressed as Gru from one of her favorite movies 'Despicable Me' and asked for a picture in February 2019.

The actor put his arm around the young girl and made the hand gesture above her shoulder and let it linger, according to the lawsuit.

She wanted to show the picture to her classmates but her parents told her she couldn't because 'a man did a bad thing to her because he did not like her because of her race and color,' the lawsuit says.

A month later, 'Gru' did the same thing in a picture with a young Hispanic girl.

In both incidents, the lawsuit claims the character's handler or the park did nothing to stop it and are responsible.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: dfwgator

Have you seen the video?


21 posted on 07/11/2021 5:49:03 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: AndyJackson

So the stupid of the world do not understand that the finger circle is the o of the word ok and the three potstretched remaining fingers represent the letter k?

Actually I think they just make things up in order to bully people

Ignore and laugh at them


22 posted on 07/11/2021 5:49:50 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Rurudyne

“We all know how he died....but perhaps some of you haven’t seen the video tape.....Let’s take a look...”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDc02GNQaYE


23 posted on 07/11/2021 5:52:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: All

Any lawyer who takes a case like this should be disbarred, and any judge that would hear such a case should be ‘defrocked’ and then disbarred.


24 posted on 07/11/2021 5:54:03 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt
universally-known and universally-used hate symbol that indicates white power

The defense just needs to pick a random group off the street for a focus group, then individually show them different symbols and asked them what they mean.

I would bet that 90%+ would identify the OK symbol as meaning "OK".
25 posted on 07/11/2021 5:57:23 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: polymuser

OK - - - It took a few seconds.


26 posted on 07/11/2021 5:57:39 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Jane Long

Becuase the movie is owned by universal. Duh


27 posted on 07/11/2021 6:01:20 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans
Two families sued Universal Orlando for $30,000 after an actor dressed as the Disney character 'Gru' flashed a white-power hand gesture in two separate photos with young girls of color.

Guess this is what confused me.

Thanks for your kind reply, though.

28 posted on 07/11/2021 6:06:14 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: dfwgator

No, no, no! Eddie Murphy’s Buckwheat would be indicating OTAY, not OK…


29 posted on 07/11/2021 6:06:34 PM PDT by DJ Frisat (If you're not black, your life apparently doesn't matter...)
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To: algore

Why is it that the “OK” sign has to be *presumed* to be a racist symbol when it could very well just mean “okay”. I still use it. After 60 years, habits can be hard to break.


30 posted on 07/11/2021 6:07:47 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: algore

Hey look! Another White Supremacist!

31 posted on 07/11/2021 6:14:24 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Chickensoup
So the stupid of the world do not understand that the finger circle is the o of the word ok and the three potstretched remaining fingers represent the letter k?

John Glenn Knew


32 posted on 07/11/2021 6:15:12 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: JonPreston

John Glenn Knew

That’s why the Negros had to get their own space program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8


33 posted on 07/11/2021 6:16:28 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Chickensoup

They (liberals) didn’t make this up. A group on Reddit or 8chan made it up as a prank to troll liberals.

The leftist media swallowed it hook line and sinker.


34 posted on 07/11/2021 6:21:56 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who shot Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: algore
I don't recall a class action lawsuit against the producers of the 2009 movie, 2012, for Danny Glover's egregious act (see screenshot below).

/s


35 posted on 07/11/2021 6:28:42 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: algore

Jeez, I use the OK sign when my co workers ask me a question and I’m busy running the mower. I guess I should give some of the homeowners their money back since I use the OK hand sign on black, Asians and Hispanic property. I might have to triple the cost for WHITE HOMEOWNERS!! 😀


36 posted on 07/11/2021 6:33:37 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Rush, this young conservative will miss you. I'll miss your talent...)
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To: dfwgator

LOL!


37 posted on 07/11/2021 6:41:00 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: TigersEye

Is it a prank, or a leftist tool to harm the right?


38 posted on 07/11/2021 6:43:35 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: dfwgator

Thanks for both of those!

Funny schitt


39 posted on 07/11/2021 6:46:12 PM PDT by digger48
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To: algore

This 4chan hoax (”Operation O-KKK”) was so useful to the left that they decided it should be treated as real.


40 posted on 07/11/2021 6:47:59 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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