The right wing activist and convicted felon's gesture was identical to the one Musk made at Donald Trump's inauguration The post Steve Bannon Gives Apparent Nazi Salute During CPAC Speech, Mirroring Elon Musk | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
I don’t think this one is nearly as obvious as Musk’s, and I feel like blowing something like this up makes us look bad and will only further them doing sarcastic, vague gestures “as a joke” until it gets normalized more.
it is very obvious. he isn’t waving, he isn’t pointing at anything, he isn’t emphasizing or illustrating anything because he’s not even talking when he does it. there’s a bunch of things you might be doing that can be screen grabbed to look like a salute. but the video is clear, he’s just doing a salute.
It could be a trap, where we make a big deal about it and they claim they’re “joking” each time and then it gets normalized.
But the alternative is preemptively normalizing it by buying into the plausible deniability. There’s no ‘winning’ move, I’d rather call him a fucking Nazi
My friend, you can’t have it both ways. If he “made a mistake” and then humbly and profusely apologized, then you could maybe pretend it was accidental… But that’s not what happened, right? He didn’t apologize because he meant it.
We will never, ever, look bad for calling out racism when we see it as clearly as we did here. But we would certainly be horrible human beings if we decided to pretend it wasn’t happening.
Anyway, of course you can do what you feel is right. For me, it’s simple. Fuck that racist motherfucker.
I don’t think this one is nearly as obvious as Musk’s, and I feel like blowing something like this up makes us look bad and will only further them doing sarcastic, vague gestures “as a joke” until it gets normalized more.
it is very obvious. he isn’t waving, he isn’t pointing at anything, he isn’t emphasizing or illustrating anything because he’s not even talking when he does it. there’s a bunch of things you might be doing that can be screen grabbed to look like a salute. but the video is clear, he’s just doing a salute.
It could be a trap, where we make a big deal about it and they claim they’re “joking” each time and then it gets normalized. But the alternative is preemptively normalizing it by buying into the plausible deniability. There’s no ‘winning’ move, I’d rather call him a fucking Nazi
Stop making excuses for fascists.
This is Steve Bannon performing a poor man’s Nazi salute so he can claim plausible deniability later.
He even responds with a smile when the crowd cheers him doing it.
Stop making excuses for fascists. Unless you are one…
My friend, you can’t have it both ways. If he “made a mistake” and then humbly and profusely apologized, then you could maybe pretend it was accidental… But that’s not what happened, right? He didn’t apologize because he meant it.
We will never, ever, look bad for calling out racism when we see it as clearly as we did here. But we would certainly be horrible human beings if we decided to pretend it wasn’t happening.
Anyway, of course you can do what you feel is right. For me, it’s simple. Fuck that racist motherfucker.
My favorite song by the Dead Kennedys is “Nazi Punks Will Go Away on Their Own So Don’t Make a Big Deal About It”