The media sanewashing/legal sanitizing is actually pretty disgusting.
It’s laughable that neo-fash and their friends think the ‘Roman salute’ excuse is rational. Nazi culture was heavily inspired by the myth of Rome, from architecture to that salute. People in the US don’t just do that salute. No sane person will say ‘ah clearly Elon felt the need to do an ancient roman gesture’. And in case anyone needs this stated: neo-nazi groups colloquially refer to the salute as a ‘roman’.
Example of a neo-nazi chatroom referring to the salute as a 'roman' after the nazi group performed a nazi salute in public.
the nazis salute was inspired by the roman salute.
So as benignly milquetoast as it is, it’s not innacurate.
If you’re going to sanewash a nazis, maybe start with calling them a nazis so everyone knows why.
The media sanewashing/legal sanitizing is actually pretty disgusting.
It’s laughable that neo-fash and their friends think the ‘Roman salute’ excuse is rational. Nazi culture was heavily inspired by the myth of Rome, from architecture to that salute. People in the US don’t just do that salute. No sane person will say ‘ah clearly Elon felt the need to do an ancient roman gesture’. And in case anyone needs this stated: neo-nazi groups colloquially refer to the salute as a ‘roman’.
Example of a neo-nazi chatroom referring to the salute as a 'roman' after the nazi group performed a nazi salute in public.
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