So, an org fighting anti-semitism sees a guy who openly supports a nazi party in germany, who says that the swastika symbol is not against twitter rules and who made the nazi salute in turd's inauguration and says that it was just "an awkward gesture" but that he's not a nazi at all.
Tell me again why should I not consider that the ADL itself is a nazi org.
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
Tell me again why should I not consider that the ADL itself is a nazi org.
if you have a table with ten people and 1 nazis, you have 11 nazis.
Also, just to add to that list of things that makes musk a nazis.... he donates to the AFD. You know. the neo nazis party in germany.
Also, also, just going to drop this open letter/oped to the NYT's that was signed by many then-promenient american jews denouncing the State of Israel for being fascists. it should be noted that the political parties mentioned in this letter became Netanyahu's party.
of which it says:
To the Editor or Thk Nbw York Times :
Among- the most disturbing political phenomena of our time is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. .... .... The public avowals of Begin's party are no guide whatever to its actual character. Today they speak of freedom, democracy and anti-imperialism, whereas until recently they openly preached the doctrine of the Fascist state. It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be expected to do in the future.
Literally anyone: "Palestine should be free"
ADL: AntiSeMiTisM!!!
Elon Musk: Performs a nazi salute. Twice.
ADL: My, my, such enthusiasm! *bats eyelashes
They're pro-isreali government, not anti-anti-semitism. That's it, that's the whole explanation.
The ADL is part of the radical Israeli lobby group AIPAC. They have regularly faced criticism, which i share, that they are not dedicated to fighting antisemitism, but rather abuse the fight against antisemitism to further Israels political interests.
This becomes extremely clear when opposing Israel's genocide of Palestinians is called antisemitic but repeatedly performing Nazi salutes in front of a far-right rally is not, and is even defended. The ADL, it seems, don't care about protecting Jews, just about protecting fascist Israel.
But it's opposite day ... right?
Hell of a fever dream for opposite day.
It's wild how people (mostly the ADL and news outlets that want to pretend this is all normal and fine) just memory holed Elon posting "you have said the actual truth" in a reply to someone posting an antisemitic ramble about a Jewish conspiracy to import foreigners
(sarcastically) Like, wow, how could a man who endorses shit like this possibly do a Nazi salute, it seems so unlike him! 🙄
Lol, the whole post is confusing as I'm pretty sure most western Jewish people self identify as white.
Crazy how many racist don't understand the difference between ethnicity and race.
Judaism is a pan-racial ethnicity. Someone can be white and Jewish just like one could be Ethiopian and Jewish.
Yeah, which is why I prefaced that it was weird he specified "most western". I'm sure there are some Ethiopian Jews in the west, but I'm also sure they're not a majority.
For most antisemites, Jewish people who consider themselves white are doing so as a ploy to infiltrate and undermine white society.
Antisemitic conspiracy thinking is based on the idea that Jewish people are all deep down engaged in some sort of conspiracy to benefit Jews over non-jews, and so you can disregard actual Jewish people's thoughts and understandings of their situation as a smokescreen for their conspiracy. Antisemitic conspiracy thinking is at its heart, conspiratorial thinking, and can reinterpret almost anything into further proof of the conspiracy, even someone acting in a way that totally goes against how the conspiracy theory says they should be acting.
I mean he did it twice. Bit hard to call it unintantional when you do it once, turn round and do it again.
And the ADL is also defending Israel's genocide of Palestinian people. They lost the actual definition of antisemitism. They can get fucked.
"Please, just reject the evidence of your eyes and ears, it's no biggie"
Okay these are the people who in the past defended Apartheid South Africa and today defend Israeli genocide so I never exactly had high hopes, but... what the actual fuck? I thought they were just ideologically rotten; turns out they're another member of the circus.
Don't forget that they also denied the Armenian genocide for years.
Don't you just hate it when you slip on a banana peel and accidentally sieg heil? Soooo awkward when that happens.
Twice.
"Ignore the lie you saw with your own eyes and listen to the actual truth we tell you"
Guess somewhat understood 1984 as a guideline.
Pretty sure the first Public Relations people teach famous people is don't do the fucking Hitler salute.
Ok, so imagine that you're a billionaire and a really smart dude (as claimed by so many people on the internet). And you get into government and appear on TV and want to look good. You might hire a publicist, a PR team, some speechwriters, hell how about a body language consultant. When you go on TV you're going to project exactly the image you intend to. Anything less would be careless and stupid, right?
So yeah. This was a Nazi salute. And if you really want to argue that it wasn't, that Musk doesn't even know what a Nazi is, you gotta also accept that he's grossly incompetent and should not be in government at all. Throw him out, we didn't vote for him.
I saw this post this morning and thought maybe it was out of context and just clipped from him raising his hand up to wave or something as a metaphor of who he is ... then I saw the gif.
I mean, he does it weirdly, like he's trying to do it like a dab or something, so even a nazi salute is something he fail in just like his companies. But a nazi salute is a nazi salute. When it's a gesture done in a moment of enthusiasm, you know what his true nature is inside. A fucking nazi. But that's not something he's hiding or anything. It says more about the people claiming he isn't a nazi. How fucking ignore't and blind can you be? When it's shaped like a strawberry and red like a strawberry, grows on a strawberry plant, it's highly likely a strawberry. But than there are people saying "nah, it's not a strawberry, it's a banana."
A bit like Dr Strangelove, but he makes no effort to pull the arm down to hide it.
Will no one rid us of this meddlesome ~~CEO~~ ~~tech bro~~ nazi?
Can't keep killing Palestininians if we piss off the conservatives that like the world's richest Nazi.
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