Summary
Elon Musk’s Nazi salute during a speech was projected onto Tesla’s Berlin factory by two left-wing activist groups, Led By Donkeys and the Center for Political Beauty.
The groups, known for their creative stunts, aimed to expose political hypocrisy and address issues like fascism and historical accountability.
Musk dismissed the controversy, urging people not to overanalyze his actions.
It wasn’t controversial. There is no controversy about it, everyone except nazis are saying that it was a nazi salute.
Yeah it’s not like he was this huge humanitarian that suddenly made a gesture that looked a bit like it.
Musk has repeatedly shown sympathies for the extreme right, for instance officially supporting the German Extreme right ultra nationalist AfD.
So when a proven fascist makes a Nazi salute, there is absolutely zero reason to believe it was an accident.
So USA now has official Nazis in their government now!!
Congratulations USA.
Right - like normal humans would say “whoops you’re right, that was an unintended gesture”
Not double down on it
Unfortunately, far-right is invading most countries… There are just more discrete for now, but less and less.
Nah, if the reports on the internet are right, the nazis seem to be pretty clear in agreement and celebrating it.
The Nazis who are loud and proud about being Nazis agree it was a nazi salute.
The Nazis who still want to hide what they are because they don’t want to face the consequences and social shunning say it wasn’t a nazi salute.
I thought the actual natzis heard him loud and clear. I wouldn’t be surprised that they start saying “My heart goes out to you” just like they used to say “let’s go Brandon”
Everyone saw him loud and clear.
There is no more room for interpretation, Elon Musk thinks himself a Nazi.
Yeah because anyone who did that by accident would be tripping over themselves trying to apologize and explain themselves.
…and yet, the nazis love him even more!
Actually, the Nazis are saying it was a Nazi salute too. Just to each other in their own little echo chambers.
But we have to have balance in this important debate between both sides: Nazi and not-Nazi!
And thus the Overton window for US politics continues its rightwards slide.
I’m not sure that word means what you think it means…
Controversial doesn’t mean ‘It’s in question’ it doesn’t mean ‘People are unsure of whether it happened’
It means people widely (but not entirely) disapprove of it.
It’s very controversial.
From Chamber’s Dictionary
Hmm… looking at Webster’s definition of controversy, seems like it is perfectly correct to use the term in relation to what Musk has done.
controversy
noun
1 : a discussion marked especially by the expression of opposing views : DISPUTE
The decision aroused a controversy among the students.
2 : QUARREL, STRIFE
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/controversy
I understood it ls in people are discussing if it was a nazi salute or not, maybe some of the meaning inside the word got lost in translation? I’m not a native speaker so it’s a possibility.
That’s fine, I don’t think anyone really thinks it was an accident though either, the people saying that are just trying to downplay their dogwhistle.
What’s next? Asking if the sky is blue? Do we need to question that too? If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck…it’s a duck!
User name checks out.