So im aware that this might be against rule 5, but i still wonder
The Musk salute has been the theme of nearly 90% of all posts I’ve read all week (day? Hour? It’s so many I can’t keep track)
I see some people complaining it’s not a nazi salute, and to be fair, if it was some other famous person not currently courting Germany’s afd I could understand the arguments.
But my question is: why have we not seen a massive response from the owner of X that it was not, in fact, a nazi salute? He must be aware. Has he responded and my news circle is just too left leaning? Or has he purposely ignored it?
To me the mere act of not acknowledging it is in fact a confession. But maybe he has and im in too deep in the “other side”
And also sorry for the bad English ➡️ not my native language
The Musk salute is more accurately described as a nazi salute because it was.
News corps are being cowardly and the ADL is being about as honest as it ever fucking is.
ADL condemned him after he doubled down on Twitter with nazi jokes.
They did… but they initially cast doubt on whether it was a nazi salute leading to a lot of the news stories saying “suggestive gesture” or “nonspecific salute” instead of saying “that’s nazi shit”.
The whole point he’s trying to prove is that he can do something like this with no consequences, including having to apologize. He hasn’t apologized and he won’t.
The reason he can do that with no consequences and you’re left here wondering what the fuck just happened and why the response you normally would expect isn’t coming, is that the western political environment has been artificially and methodically polarized for years in preparation for a stunt like this. Cognitive dissonance is an effective tool.
Trump gets to do anything he wants; Musk wants the same treatment.
He’s very aware. He’s posting jokes such as “You did nazi that coming” also he’s claiming it’s all nonsense left wing conspiracy and it was just a harmless wave. Your basic right wing gaslighting mixed with a bit of dog whistling.
Please find me a statement he made saying it was just a harmless wave, because unless I missed something recently, he has not said anything of the sort. He hasn’t denied making the salute. He hasn’t claimed he meant something else. He hasn’t said that it was a lie or a conspiracy. A lot of groups and the media have made those claims for him, but Musk has yet to deny anything.
That’s the whole point of OP’s post. Musk himself has not made any statement contradicting the Nazi narrative.
Yet, as if this writing, he has not denied it.
At this point it’s not “dog whistling”, we’re all hearing it loud and clear. It’s “implausible deniability”.
air-horning more like
People already answered your question but I just wanted to chime in and say your English is probably better than most native speakers.
He did some stupid shit like, IIRC, retweeted an old post where he said now that he supported Trump, the left would use dirty tricks to smear him, than added a new statement mocking them for not having a more creative dirty trick than calling him Hitler.
He said nothing else that I saw, most likely because he’s a Nazi.
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It’s because it doesn’t matter; the circus will move on soon. Talking about it only continues the show.
