Musk doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt [View all]

[struggle4progress]

by Zack Beauchamp
Updated Jan 24, 2025, 7:33 AM EST

... I watched the footage from as many angles as I could find. He stuck his arm straight out, palm down, and pointed it toward the crowd in a gesture of tribute. He put his hand on his heart first, a variant of the Adolf Hitler salute popularized in American History X — a critical film about neo-Nazism that some on the far-right have reclaimed as a celebration. And he did it twice.

If that’s what you saw — well, I’m with you. And it’s what neo-Nazis themselves saw; Nick Fuentes, the Hitler admirer who dined with Trump in 2022, described Musk’s gesture as “a straight-up sieg heil, like loving Hitler energy” ...

https://www.vox.com/politics/396535/elon-musk-nazi-salute-trump-inauguration