The mainstream press failed to accurately describe the hand gesture that Elon Musk made twice at Trump’s Inauguration Day rally, setting a troubling precedent for the second Trump era.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’ve seen people here on Lemmy, people I don’t think are just trolling, that are finding convoluted reasons to excuse it as not a Nazi salute. And I am so fucking tired of it. Listen to virtually everything he has ever said on the subject of race and gender and sexual orientation and other such things. Maybe if he didn’t have a really long history of being a racist, maybe if he didn’t support the Germany’s modern Nazi party, maybe if he isn’t trying to get an unapologetic Nazi out of prison in the UK, I would consider that he accidentally did a Nazi salute (twice). But that’s not the reality.

    “Oh sure, he’s a bigot that loves Nazis, but that wasn’t a Nazi salute” is some real fucking bullshit.

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      Internet forums have always been full of contrarians who want to be the only ones to know the “real truth”. That explains a lot of it. Others just get lost in the logic of it. I’f I can’t prove that he held true Nazism in his heart when he did it, does it count as a Nazi salute?’ This is sort of futile question they ask. The fact that there’s broad consensus on what this was makes them more likely to try to logic their way into a special minority position.