Nurse Reportedly Fired On Christmas After Flashing White Power Symbol In TikTok Video

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December 28, 2020, 11:40 am

A nurse who flashed a white power symbol in a TikTok video has reportedly been fired from her contract nursing position after an internet sleuth tracked down the video’s origins.

As the Daily Dot reported Friday, the TikTok video from the @farmernurse account (which has since been stripped of its content) showed someone in protective gear, including a mask and face shield, flashing the “OK” hand signal that has come to symbolize “white power” in recent years. (In 2019, the Anti-Defamation League added the gesture to its hate speech list.)

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Though the video’s not up in its initial location, it was shared on the Fifty Shades of Whey Twitter account.

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The person running that account, who labels himself a freelance reporter, went on to track down bio info revealing that @farmernurse once lived and worked in North Carolina, but was most recently with Rock Medical Group, based in Omaha, Nebraska.

In the TikTok bio, which was still up as of publication time Monday, she identified as a “COVID warrier” (sic) as well as a “Patriot.”

The video plays the “bring the lion out” line from Saint Mesa’s “Lion” while the person in the video makes the gesture.

This racist is “farmernurse” on TikTok and goes by “Wee Key” on Facebook. It says she lives in North Carolina but she works at Rock Medical Group, which is based out of Nebraska. I wonder if they know they hired a nurse promoting white supremacy to 5,000 followers on TikTok. pic.twitter.com/SuLqcYgx8Y

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) December 25, 2020

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Within hours on the post going public—on Christmas Day, no less, the healthcare organization responded swiftly, saying, “We do not support white supremacy or any other hate speech or actions,” adding that it had immediately terminated its contract with the nurse.

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As Fifty Shades of Whey glibly noted, “She just got shitcanned. Merry Christmas!”

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Though a number of people on Twitter found it commendable that she was fired so swiftly, others expressed concern that she’d been working with BIPOC patients in the past.

As one put it, “The frightening thing is that at one time she worked in an ICU in Durham which has a sizable Black population,” before going on to surmise, “If she was working in an ICU or cardiac CCU, God only knows the treatment her Black patients received.”

The frightening thing is at one time she worked in an ICU in Durham which has a sizable Black population… if she was working in an ICU or cardiac CCU God only knows the treatment her Black patients rec’d.

— Lourdes (@bahia_lourdes) December 25, 2020

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*First Published: December 28, 2020, 11:40 am