Isn't David Hogg's fist salute the salute the 1968 black Olympic winners gave in Mexico City?

[bobbieinok]

What RWNJs are calling a 'Nazi salute'?

[democratisphere]

1. Yes, it sure is the same salute!

Updated version: Power to ALL the people!

https://goo.gl/images/FZKH2L

[GP6971]

2. Looks like it to me.

And the salute in 68 had nothing to do with Nazis.

[Skittles]

3. I just see it as a symbol of DEFIANCE

[WhiteTara]

4. Yes. It is the Black Power salute of the 60s/70s

I recognized that right away--Nazis hold their hands/fingers straight up

[bottomofthehill]

5. Maybe poking fun at this

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q-gAyE-Q2Jg/WqG5ID3GQYI/AAAAAAAAqdE/PIB7wU4muekjSNvPJb8FANpnHOphZWJWACHMYCw/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/Charlton%2BHeston%252C%2BCold%2BDead%2BHands%2Bspeech-8x6_thumb%255B38%255D?imgmax=800

[YOHABLO]

6. This is bullshit. Many political entities throughout history have used the fist salute.

It just means solidarity. That's all.

[Pachamama]

7. Sieg Heil salute does not involve clenched fist like Hogg did...

But the Black Power salute did involved clenched fist...

It is utterly ridiculous that the far right or critics of Hogg are even suggesting that his fist in air was a Nazi salute....

Frankly, I saw it as a “fight on” cheer....like my coach did for our sports team when we were about to go fight a team in Lacrosse....

[Igel]

11. Used by many.

"Fight on" is typically a fist pump, not a raised fist held aloft.

Black power salute.

Spanish civil war communist salute.

The Russians in the Donbas fighting the Ukrainian "fascists" and targeting Jews, non-Orthodox Xians, and ethnic minorities used it.

It's also the white power salute.

I've seen it on posters that my high school kids make for history class. It's typically working-class solidarity. Between Holocaust slogans and International Worker symbolism, they're hitting all their marks. (They make missteps, but those aren't even noticed.)

[Bob Loblaw]

8. How did they miss that?

Wouldn't that have greater hate appeal for them than the Nazi salute?

[yardwork]

9. It shows how scripted their response is - not a natural response at all.

[RhodeIslandOne]

10. Uhhhh

[PaulX2]

14. Seig Heil

Or something like that lorrie....

[KelleyKramer]

20. Thank you, saving that pic

Forgot about that at the RNC convention, very good point

Thanks for the reminder!

[bobbieinok]

12. I think many pundits are too young to recognize the similairity to the Olympics salute

Reminds me of seeing a tv report about some demonstration in Europe in the 80s. The reporter said none of his fellows were old enough to recognize that the demonstrators were singing the 'anthem' of the US Civil Rights Movement of the 60s - 'We shall overcome'.
..

[nocoincidences]

13. It's a power salute, Black Power

Feminist Power, now passed to our children.

[oasis]

18. Wonderful pic.

[area51]

15. Nazi salute?

How 'bout a plain old nazi?

[Vinca]

16. It's also the salute Trump gives at most of his cult events.

[oberliner]

17. Doubtful

It's just a general symbol of defiance.

[FarCenter]

19. It was probably something he'd seen on TV

Ascribing a full comprehension of all cultural and political antecedents of its symbolic use is probably going too far.