The latest fabricated controversy over “white supremacist symbols” has shown two things. The first is that you don’t have to be smart to be a Jeopardy! contestant. The second is that there is a far greater cultural demand for white supremacists to fight against than there are white supremacists.

Some 400 former Jeopardy! contestants illustrated both points to perfection, demanding an apology from contestant Kelly Donohue for a gesture that, “whether intentional or not, resembled very closely a gesture that has been coopted by white power groups.”