The nazi salute is not as lateral and it stands a longer time. Here, his hand is first on his heart: he sends his joy and congratulates from the bottom of his heart. His exaltation is accompanied with his thanks to the audience. He says: I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you [he sends the thanks at this moment, with his hand on his heart, in that gesture of sending from his heart]. My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the futur of civilisation is assured.
No, since it's not the nazi salute.
Pattern recognition running amok? Look at those guys in the below video. This is exactly the same gesture:
Not clear at all, otherwise there would be no controversy. Couldn't he just do a few dance steps or make the heart sign with his hands? Why choose such a highly symbolic gesture when you're the centre of media attention? He knows it's bound to cause controversy.
I see no difference with the videos I posted above. And there's others mean to express exaltation/fight, why to choose precisely this one?
I don't buy it. Perhaps his brain short-circuit but it is. The Nazi salute is not just the outstretched arm, it's the gestures used to extend it. He can say whatever words he wants on it, but it doesn't change a thing. There were a thousand other things he could have done to express his gratitude. Why introduce such ambiguity, and in front of the world's cameras? Personally I think there's a real problem.
It's more subtle than that. You can agree with only parts of an ideology or have something in you which resonate with it without going at full throttle.
With great power come great responsibility. The message which is delivered in front of the world's cameras and so how it can be interpreted by millions of persons is important. Musk was not caught by surprise.
Not exactly the same gesture, it does'nt go towards an audience, neither in a similar ambiance . What do they say while doing that gesture? What is the context? What their chief said just before and they respond by the salute?
Controversy is easily manufactured by media.
Why precisely this one? Because it's spontaneous. If you look the full video, just before he comes to his speech, he sort of dances and expresses a high joy. The whole thing is so natural for a human being. It doesn't seem to be something calculated.
Unfortunately there is also the lack of thinking out of the box, for the wide majority of people.
"Running amok" part is when people are deducing from his hand gesture that he must be a Nazi, that it was intentional Sieg Heil salute (thus conveying his ideology or other "evil intentions").
Well, one possibility I see is that Musk did this "salute" - consciously or not - to provoke fears on the left of a nazi takeover under Trump. Maybe it was a subtle 'nudge' in his subconscious by STS forces to do it and he may not consciously know why he did it.
A few years ago I made the same kind of misinterpretation, I got reprimanded, I apologized and I learned not to judge a situation too quickly. That's how we learn to be people a little more... adults? This is a school here, we are here to learn and so it is normal and even necessary to make mistakes in order to see things more clearly.
I think this is spot on. The focus should be on his actions and they warrant scrutiny because of his govt. & MIC contracts.
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Brilliant!pic.twitter.com/ztDv7mZRJX
Just loved that Arwenn, who said mathematicians are boring with no sense of humour.!!Having said that, I have enjoyed some of the memes, like this one using math to work out the exact angle of the salute.
