Jewish Leaders Call for Boycott After Elon Musk's Nazi Salute, Holocaust Jokes

[industrystandard@lemmy.world]

Nothing to say? The ADL defended Elon!

[midaba@lemmy.ml]

That's because Isreal has been slowly co-opted by xenophobic right wing extramists under the guise of survival.

[corno@lemm.ee]

The fact that 152 thousand people hearted that post is so disheartening.

[letsdothis@lemmy.world]

Yeah... this and other organizations concluded that he didn't perform a nazi salute.... so what's the deal? Why are so many sources still saying he did nazi salute?

Right after he did that, he said, "My heart goes out to you." And later denied again.

Why such a smear campaign?

[hobbes_dent@lemmy.world]

Because most people learned the fucking lesson that there is ZERO justification. Inexcusable even as a mistake for someone in that position no matter how he got there, and inexcusable to dismiss it.

[ameancow@lemmy.world]

Also, it's pretty wild that absolutely zero effort has been made "correcting" all the actual card-carrying nazis who celebrate every major action that Musk makes, from restoring their accounts on social media to boosting their memes and messages for years now. There's clips out there of people with swastika tattoos sieg-heiling recordings of Musk's "awkward gesture" and they look exactly the same.

Tell us again how we shouldn't trust our own eyes. I think there was a book somewhere that talked about this. I'd recommend looking into it.

[letsdothis@lemmy.world]

Because most people learned the fucking lesson that there is ZERO justification.

What "lesson"? So, even if unintentional, any salute even similar to the nazi salute should call for condemnation?

The mainstream media are pushing this hard as hell, just raking Elon over the coals.

So many here have lost the plot

[nifty@lemmy.world]

White nationalists are just the same as white supremacists. If there are Jewish people who think Christian Nationalism will protect them, they're forgetting that Nazis were and are very Christian.

Authoritarian leaders turn on their own people and supporters all the time, this has been proven time and again in history. Whatever America is now though, there is still hope in the judiciary and the constitution.

[nifty@lemmy.world]

I think it’s fair to say that when people are facing an existential threat they find it hard to criticize that which protects them. People should just be anti-genocide because leaders cannot be trusted all the time. But what are the chances that the Muslim citizens in Arab countries would protest if a genocide happens to their perceived enemies? Sometimes the best defense people have against authoritarianism is empathy, don’t let something happen to someone else that you don’t want happening to you.

[assassinatedbycia@lemmy.world]

Don’t believe your lying eyes people

[raouldook@lemmy.world]

You really have to be fucking brainwashed to believe that shit. HE DID IT TWICE IN A ROW THE EXACT SAME WAY

Not only did he do it twice in a row the same exact way, but he did a Nazi salute in the exact same manner as Adolf Hitler did and modern neo-nazis do.

No one can tell me that my eyes didn't see a Nazi salute when they did see it as plain as day.

What's REALLY fucked up is that people like you are still defending a Nazi salute. You are a Nazi apologist.

[timmy_jizz_tits@lemmy.world]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xDyPSKLy5E4&t=120s&pp=ygUZZWxvbiBtdXNrIEhpdGxlciBwcm9ibGVtIA%3D%3D

Just FYI. Also, notice the date. It's 10 months old and they updated the thumbnail because of how obviously correct they were. Elon Musk was born white and rich in apartheid era south Africa. His family migrated there from Canada after ww2 specifically because the race dynamics at the time. He openly touts blatantly eugenic ideology, fathers 12 children and freezes his sperm because of that ideology. Him doing a nazi salute and making nazi jokes in the aftermath is him just waving his dick around because he knows there's an army of fucking empty headed dumb fucks that will defend him.

[maccentric@sh.itjust.works]

So a Scarface reference?

[ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml]

Many sources are saying he did a nazi salute because, wait for it... He did a nazi salute.

[wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works]

Always has been. Pre WW2 socialist Jewish currents pretty much all unanimously opposed Zionism.

[duamerthrax@lemmy.world]

they’re forgetting that Nazis were and are very Christian.

They're forgetting about "Group 13" as well.

[zigzagzebra@lemmy.world]

yeah, I think context really matters here. He also made these jokes on Jan 23, the day that Auschwitz was liberated, and is held as a day of remembrance. He's got a dog train whistle.

[yarr@feddit.nl]

Yeah, but other than one of the largest Jewish advocacy groups who else is defending him? What would the ADL know about antisemitism anyway?

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

I know what I saw. Not all of us suffer from MAGA brain rot.

[landedgentry@lemmy.zip]

Yes! If it resembles a sieg heil it should be condemned!