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.

  • @shalafiEnglish
    7•15 hours ago

    Along the lines of my thoughts.

    it’s quite telling that he instinctively used that gesture

    There it is. People that don’t go walking around saying N*****, don’t accidentally slip it into conversation. Same here. Even if unintentional in the moment, well, he obviously walks around saying N*****. That gesture was clearly part of his “vocabulary”. You get it.

    And if it was merely an exuberant, “Fuck yeah!” thing, damn near every American ever would have done it with a fist. Been walking America for 54 years, never seen that salute unless it was a jokey “Heil Hitler” move.

    And… of course lemmy downvotes you for trying to discuss this. Comrade, you must immediately and perfectly toe the party line. That first sentence made these morons think you’re a sympathizer. We don’t read past the first phrase around here. If you had put your last sentence first, you would have been golden. (Gods, lemmy users are child’s play to manipulate.)