• OccamsRazer@lemmy.world
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    Yeah but if AOC makes a gesture that looks a lot like a nazi salute, nobody cares about it. It’s a double standard, but nobody actually thinks AOC is a nazi or was trying to evoke nazi imagery. Double standards aren’t always automatically bad or wrong. They need to be considered in the context of the person and what they stand for.

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      6 months ago

      Dude, he did it 2 times, give me a break and best part is that he meant it, hence the 2 times salute. Cope harder

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        Not only that, but Elon promotes and sponsors multiple reactionary political groups around the world, including the AfD

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        6 months ago

        Ok… Did you see the AOC video though? Imagine Elon doing that and tell me what you would think about it. It would look a lot different coming from him, and that’s my point.

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            No it’s not that one, which was an obvious crop job. Another guy found it in one of the other comments. Again, it’s not that I’m saying that AOC did the salute, just that what if Elon did the same exact thing? It’s a double standard because he would be treated differently for it because of all the other context. But my point is that it’s not unreasonable for there to be a double standard given the context of who did it.

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              But there’s no possibility he did anything else than a Nazi salute. He’s so socially incompetent he forgot about the plausible deniability. Now his supporters are working overtime to cover it up. Like I said, it’s so weird that seeing a side-by-side comparison, it’s the same gesture in beat and pose.

              Also, please correct me if I’m wrong, but are you saying that it’s a double standard that’s only excusable of their respective personalities? I think you mean acceptance? The only double standard I see is how people start pointing elsewhere when a Republican politician does it. If it were a Democrat not a single soul would be pointing at that Greene plant in the Senate. xd This is the weirdest shit about US politics, that egregious double standard that envelopes this entire post.

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          Yes, there are lots of people who get caught in what could be mistaken for a heil in a single photo.
          Show me a video of anyone heiling, full motion start to finish, who is not a nazi. Please do, heck, if you can find someone not a nazi doing a double sieg heil in a row, I will give you a genuine 18k gold medal!

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      Literal WW2 scholars have come forward and said that was unequivocally a Nazi salute. We have side-by-side comparisons that match the form and the timing. Everyone with an eye can tell what it is except for other Nazi sympathizers.

      Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.

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      Can you please show me what you are referring to and the context? Because the context of the event discussed was very clear. It wasn’t a never do this educational situation. Dude just had to say, my bad it looked like that but I was caught up in the moment and meant to put my hand out with an open palm like Jesus in Rio but we instead accidentally kept them facing down.

      A lot of the issue stemmed from him doing it twice after supporting a far right Germany movement and not just saying my bad.

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          I don’t think YOU understood. You fabricated a scenario that doesn’t exist “AOC making a nazi salute”, and then claimed that nobody would have said anything about it, therefore it’s a double-standard.

          You conjured an event out of thin air, and then claimed your imaginary event that never even happened was proof of an existing double-standard.

          Now if AOC ever does an Elon and makes a constipated face while smashing her hand to her heart and grunting like a pig while thrusting it straight out in a nazi salute… twice… and nobody says anything… see, then you would have a point.