Comment by zwnow
5 months ago
It was a naz! salut. Dont belittle his actions, he is a grown man and should be held accountable for the way he presents himself.
5 months ago
It was a naz! salut. Dont belittle his actions, he is a grown man and should be held accountable for the way he presents himself.
How do you accurately determine when raising your arm is a Nazi salute and when not? If I raise my arm to hail a cab, what's stopping someone form accusing me of trying to hail Hitler?
To me, it's the context that determines that. From my PoV it looked like he was greeting/thanking the crowd. Plenty of other celebrities and athletes do the exact same gesture towards crowds all the time.
People are too quick to see nazism everywhere when they condition themselves for that. However, I also do see how it can be interpreted as a Nazi salute in this case.
Musk has a long history of anti-semitism [1], and has showed support to the AFD in Germany, a political party directly linked to neonazis. He knows some neonazi-adjacent guys usually attend Trump rallies, and this "nazi-ish salute" might be a dog whistle to catter to them.
Or it could not be, and he'll certainly deny it was. We'll never know for sure, that's how a dog whistle works.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Elon_Musk#Race_and_...