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.

  • Chainweasel
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    265 hours ago

    If he did it once, it would have been an extremely low but still non-zero chance that it wasn’t a Nazi salute.

    He did it twice though, it’s now firmly a 0% chance of any kind of coincidence, misunderstanding, etc.

    Thus far he’s made no comment, not even to deny the Nazi intent.
    No apology, no backtrack, no denial, he did it twice.
    It was exactly what it appeared to be and nothing less.

      • @dukeofdummies
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        104 hours ago

        If it’s twice, it’s not a random twitch or awkward wave. He sieg heiled the front and the back

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        84 hours ago

        Because it clearly was an intentional gesture.