Musk:

-supposedly has autism

-autistic people sometimes make weird faux paus

To me, it looks like it’s clearly a Hitler salute and the logical conclusion is he’s a white supremacist. But I am just wondering if everyone else sees this that way with no room for it being a result of autism and definitely that.

Is there any possibility it could have been accidental? Or was he doing a Hitler salute, then “oh it was an accident” (wink) sort of thing? Did he apologize?

Lots of people on lemmy are really smart so I’m interested to read what people think.

The whole thing makes me really uncomfortable with buying from companies that have x profiles. I just don’t see how that coukd be accidental and it seems like no one cares.

There was this period before WWII when stuff started happening to reduce the rights of minorities, but they weren’t being killed blatantly. Is this where we are? I feel more scared to be in America now.

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    15 hours ago

    It is both a literal neonazi salute as shown in this example with the hand over heart and even without that the thrusting motion to outstretched arm on its own is blatantly obvious. Stop giving this shithead a single crumb of doubt.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      14 hours ago

      Y’all don’t even read these posts, do you?

      it’s quite telling that he instinctively used that gesture

      OP nailed it. I doubt his dumbass went up there intending to throw that, but the gesture is clearly part of his “vocabulary”. It’s both hilarious and sad that people think Musk and Trump work with deep calculation.

      But of course, you feel OP is defending Musk, or at least giving him the benefit of the doubt. So we get treated to pic #516 comparing salutes. We know.

      • neidu3English
        2·
        12 hours ago

        Thank you, you said it better than I ever could.

        “You know what, I’m gonna throw a heil Hitler on stage, teehee”
        …yeah, probably not.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        We already knew. The important thing OP pondered on was the reflexive nature of it. I agree with OP, not certain that was planned, the fascist just came out.