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Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Well, according all the comments here that I've read, I'm stupid.
Yes, when you watch the motion as a small repeating gif, of course it looks like a salute. When I watch the actual video, and listen to him speaking, I do not think its a salute.
His child in the article is obviously not happy their father, even before this happened. Reading the article, its obvious their opinion is based on the trans issue, and because they disagree on the topic, then he must be a Nazi. Since they give no other reason for him being a Nazi, I don't think their opinion holds much validity.
He did it twice. With gusto. You're clearly struggling to reconcile that your idol is a Nazi and you've been wrong to worship him, or you're also a Nazi.
He is not my idol, I don't even care much for the guy.
Why go through the effort to defend what we clearly not one, but two nazi salute then?
You may not be aware, but Nazis (both traditional and the neo variant) love dog whistles.
Obscure and hidden symbolism is core to their ideologies.
Nazis (and most hate groups in general) love doing things that are just innocent enough, but with a wink or a nudge, demonstrate clear intention.
It's quite easy to not do a nazi salute and when public speaking, politicians (and people who practice their public speaking skills in general) have traditionally been coached on what features may be construed as, just look at the traditional 'non-threatening' two finger point.
Finally, I don't think it really matters what it technically was or wasn't, what matters is perception and reception.
Edit: I want to add some concrete examples of nazi dog whistling and symbolism.
Historically the numbers 88 have been used by neo Nazis to represent HH (8th letter of the alphabet) as a disguised way to say 'heil Hitler'
The numbers on their own don't mean anything, but given additional context, behaviors, or related ideals, then an additional meaning can be found.
This is often used as an intentional way to inform sympathizers to your position that you are on their side (for example a group at a political gathering) without overtly communicating your position to those opposed.
Another example is skinheads (not sharps) wearing and lacing their boots in a certain way with specific color laces.
Hitler himself was immensely into the occult and found hidden symbolism to be very powerful, it's part of why he repurposed so much religious iconography.
It’s incredibly bizarre that there are people in the world defending this shit.
It’s even more incredibly bizarre that anyone could actually look at that video and see anything other than a fucking nazi salute.
People like you are why this world is turning to absolute shit. Just another cog in the wheel.
I'm not defending it, because that's not what I think it was, and that's all I've said about it.
Why do so many of you here have such a hard time with just understanding that it is possible that other people can see something a different way?
It doesn't matter how you see it. Your perspective is irrelevant to the truth.
But it is not a truth yet. Maybe it was, but its still possible it wasn't. All I can say is that time will tell.
No, it is the truth. You're just ignorant.
No I am not, I'm knowledgeable of how Nazis today act.
The way you avoid saying "daughter" and "her" makes it clear that you don't understand her or her opinion.
Also, it was a Nazi salute. The first time I saw it, I was watching the actual video and not a GIF. He wants deniability so people who don't like Nazis will be gaslit and people that do like Nazis will praise him.
You've either drank the Kool aid too or you're not paying attention if you think that's the only reason people think he's a Nazi
Watching the original video it absolutely looks like it even alone without Hitler right beside it. It did the first time and it has every time ever since that. I watched it live and immediately said, "what the fuck"
Maybe you wanted to see it? I don't know if you did but if you already thought he was a Nazi, then of course you'd see it.
I don't go through life expecting people to do Nazi salutes. Even wannabe fascists.
Nobody "gives their heart out" like this unless they're a Nazi giving it up for Hitler.
People will see what they want to see. Even if Elon discovered the cure to all types of cancer, people would still nitpick anything about him to justify their hate.
Nah, elons actions and behaviors are justification plenty.
Is it really nit picking when he, a nazi is dismantling the us government?
People voted for this "dismantling". If you ask, Trump voters seem pretty satisfied on this regard.
So it's not nit picking. Thanks.
oh yes the "everyone that disagrees with me thinks im a nazi" comment, get over yourself, you know you are one. Also another saying if everyone is A B" around you, you most likely are. hence you are probably here because reddit banned you for the same reason you will be on most forums.
Get over yourself. I didn't even say "everyone thinks I'm a Nazi."
I said "Well, according all the comments here that I’ve read, I’m stupid." And I said that because plenty of the comments I was reading said that anyone thinking (what I said I think) is stupid.
And no, I've never had a reddit account. Not sure what your problem is.
No person in their right mind would make such a gesture, especially not speaking in front of millions. It was not a 100% clear Hitlergruß. To me it seems pretty obvious that it was an intentional move to further divide the US population into people claiming he did a Nazi salute and those brushing it off as a random gesture, ridiculing the other side. Ragebaiting by doing a 99% nazi salute is not much better than doing an actual one.
How come its mostly people who behave exactly like nazis who 'accidentally' make very similar gestures to nazi salutes? I wonder...
It's very clearly a Nazi salute. There's no room to misinterpret that. You didn't even an argument beyond "I don't think so". No one cares what you think. We all saw him do a Nazi salute.
People being mad at you doesn't invalidate their opinion of you. That's the dumbest thing I've read all day.
If you don't care what I think, then why waste your time replying to me?
That's the the burn you think it is.
Cmon, guy. You know the truth, deep down. Well maybe not that far down