Summary
Elon Musk escalated controversy over accusations that his salute at a Trump rally resembled a “Sieg heil” by posting Nazi-related jokes on X, referencing figures like Rudolf Hess and Joseph Goebbels.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) initially defended Musk, urging “a bit of grace” and “benefit of the doubt,” but later condemned his Holocaust-related jokes as offensive.
Conservative Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also defended Musk.
Critics highlighted Musk’s history of promoting far-right conspiracy theories and enabling neo-Nazi content on X, raising concerns about increasing offensive rhetoric on the platform.
“Bet you did Nazi that coming”
We did. We did see it coming.
Any bets on when Trumpers start doing it at rallies? I give it a month max.
OMG, I haven’t even thought about this. Imagine thousands of people doing this together all at once. A terrifying visual indeed!
Many people that would do this are the same people that criticized taking a knee.
Look at the faces in the background of the photo of him from the side. Glee.
It’s not a Salute Controversy
It’s not a hand gesture
It’s a NAZI SALUTE and if you can’t / won’t / don’t admit it or challenge it then you are enabling the problem and allow creeping Nazism and far right ideology into the public consciousness.
Trump found his Nazi general.
So the group that kept saying if you say “free palestanian” or “israel is bad” you are a nazi and antisemitic, suddenly had no issue with nazi marks by Musk?
if elon musk doesn’t get sued for hate crime, while student protesting genocide do, then you know who is your enemies,
This is flirting a bit too close to the antisemitic dog whistle.
legitimate question:
how does criticizing the actions of the government of Israel constitute antisemitism?
I didn’t say it did.
Non-Nazi response to someone asking why you did a Nazi salute: “What? I would never do that!”
Nazi response to someone asking why you did a Nazi salute: “Haha it was just a prank bro”
Never let the nazis gaslight you or certain american media channels try to pan away and deemphasise what he did in their footage. If anyone tries to claim this was not a nazi salute, just point them to this few-seconds-long comparison video, maybe download with
yt-dlp(cw: nazis doing nazi stuff like chanting) nya.Also I’m autistic and nazi salutes are not stimming or simple social difference or whatever.
Stims are usually repetitive and/or simple motions or behaviours or similar (e.g. I stim by jumping up and down or repeating phrases or spinning my arms in circles, sometimes from happiness and sometimes as a way to regulate emotions), and not a complex deliberate action. That salute was a deliberate and non-repetitive action. I could see the bit at the start where he walks around and moves his arms up and down repeatedly being a stim, but the other stuff? And specifically the nazi salute? No.
Plus autistic people are not on the whole less capable of understanding ethics^1 or empathising (though we may have trouble reading non-autistic social cues or emotional states and thought processes, but if we understand what someone is feeling we experience empathy, though of course there are variations on that just like with non-autistic people, if you want to know more just look up the double empathy problem :p). He knows what he was doing.
I’m sick of people (usually bad faith actors of course but still) blaming this shit on autisticness and autistic people. Its like people think that being autistic just means being a dick and not caring about other people (of course, there are plenty of dickish autistic people just like there are of any other group of people nya). And its especially disgusting given that Nazis attempted to genocide us.
I do understand that not everyone understands autism very well but come on… its such bullshit <.<
1: some studies suggest autistic people are actually more likely to follow their own sense of ethics even without social pressure when it would benefit them to break it, though these kinds of tests are done in very limited circumstances and I’ve not really looked at them in that much detail
And Huffington Post still too busy being fucking jellospined little bitches to actually say that the fuckwit did indeed throw the Nazi salute. Twice. Call it what it is, you Nazi sympathizer fucking cheesedick shitmouth cowards.
His puns weren’t even good. And he probably stole them anyway.
I’m like 95% sure he used this exact tweet like a few years ago. I could’ve sworn I saw all of these stupid puns before.
“jokes”
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