The academies launched internal investigations on Sunday after cadets and midshipmen were captured on ESPN's pre-game show for the Army-Navy game making the hand gesture, which some interpreted as white nationalist and others interpreted as innocent.
"We are confident the hand gestures used were not intended to be racist in any way. However, we are disappointed by the immature behavior of the two Fourth Class Midshipmen, and their actions will be appropriately addressed," Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Sean Buck said in a written statement. "The Naval Academy is fully committed to preparing young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps; in this case, we recognize there is more work to be done."
"We investigated this matter thoroughly," Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, 60th superintendent of the US Military Academy said in a separate written statement. "Last Saturday we had reason to believe these actions were an innocent game and not linked to extremism, but we must take allegations such as these very seriously. We are disappointed by the immature behavior of the cadets."
According to a report from the officer in charge of the Naval Academy's preliminary inquiry, the involved midshipmen "were playing the circle game without any racist or white supremacist intent."
But it’s one thing to see clips and read excerpts. It’s another thing altogether to see the scope of this smear that was, like the Covington one, a complete fabrication of media hysteria.
In particular pay attention to the CNN clips, like Jim Sciutto piously announcing that the network has “made a decision not to show it” the nefarious and evil OK sign so as not to “propagate” the gesture that’s been around for centuries.
“It’s very dangerous,” said virulent anti-Semite Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is on TV all the time as some sort of moral example. Go figure.
I really have to say I love it when Grabien does these supercuts. They are quite enlightening.
How to hack the color of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge lightsabers
ReplyDeleteWhen you go to the Star Wars parks at Disneyland or Disney World, there's a place where you get to craft your own lightsaber for the not-low-at-all price of $200. You get to build the hilt and choose your kyber crystal, which Star Wars geeks know determines the color of your blade.
Officially, you're only allowed to pick from the four colors seen in the movies: blue, green, purple, and red. Unofficially, you can actually make it any color you want.
Gene Chorba, a developer at Riot Games, tweeted Friday that those kyber crystals actually house a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag that determines the color of the blade. With the right technology, you can actually rewrite the RFID to get a different color.
Riot Gene :So the Disney build your own lightsaber system uses RFID codes to tell the lightsaber what color to display.
Which means if you have an RFID read/writer you can swap through all the colors without buying each crystal.
That's right, you can get colors that aren't even seen in the movies.
All you need is an RFID reader/writer, which can be found online for as low as $20. If you want to see how to do it yourself, this video is a helpful tutorial on how to use an RFID reader/writer and how to change the color of the blade.
While Chorba tweeted out codes for two extra colors, orange (3074) and teal (3077), YouTuber Kyle Bridges lists a few more codes to make your blade white (3072) or yellow (3075) as well as the standard colors red (3073), green (3076), blue (3086), and purple (3079).
I neither have one of these lightsabers nor an RFID reader/writer to test this out, but the video proves that it works and isn't too difficult to do at home.