I'm really glad to see this video, explaining clearly that Musk's nazi salute was real and consistent with his other behaviour in backing far-right extremism all over the world.
It's easy to feel like you're going insane when everyone is arguing that it "probably wasn't a nazi salute".
No, it was a real nazi salute. There is no logical reason to argue it could be anything else. In fact, it would be weird for him to not do it at some point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZObMDPR7CQ
=> More informations about this toot | More toots from SylvieLorxu@chaos.social
@SylvieLorxu
It greatly disturbs me that I encounter so many people who have, somehow, been gaslit into doing that second take, that kneejerk doubt of one's own perceptions.
Actually, that worries me much more than Elon Musk's Nazi salute.
=> More informations about this toot | More toots from Remittancegirl@mstdn.social
@Remittancegirl I honestly blame the media as well.
Obviously there were going to be troll farms claiming it wasn't real to try to gaslight people. But that itself would have only done limited harm if not for the media's refusal to call it what it is: a nazi salute. It was not "a controversial gesture" or "a strange movement".
The media has failed us by not reporting this as it is and allowing people to doubt. By consistently "both-siding" everything for years. Even now...
=> More informations about this toot | More toots from SylvieLorxu@chaos.social
@Remittancegirl This refusal to call it what it is, this "both-siding", this behaviour of letting the real objective truth of it being a nazi salute stand on the same height as obvious troll farms... It's part of what got us into this mess.
When one person says it's raining and the other says it isn't, a journalist shouldn't quote both, they should go outside, look and report the truth.
=> More informations about this toot | More toots from SylvieLorxu@chaos.social This content has been proxied by September (ba2dc).Proxy Information
text/gemini