Even "ill-advised" is too strong. He just made an "odd looking" gesture towards the CEO.
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I guess I too misunderstood, what does being neurodiverse have anything to do with it?
the right is trying to say that criticising the world's richest dickhead for sieg heiling is ablist
Sounds like some DEI talk to me, maybe someone should go report them or something.
right? we should all be flooding that reporting email address
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Dunno who hasn't heard that one yet but it felt relevant.
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Ok, rather than edit my reply to AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor, I'll reply again here because your comment helped the penny drop, and I've read the conversation again now realising that the reference to the hand gesture is to the dickhead's salute, so I get the first comment, not sure about the "roman hug", and assuming the last person is being sarcastic, saying what someone on the right might say because that's how they defend musk?
Sorry, my brain isn't entirely in gear yet and I think there may be too many levels of sarcasm overlapping 😂
not sure about the "roman hug",
Lots of the far right saying he was giving a "roman salute". All of it is the defenses for Musk applied to Luigi Mangione.
Ah, see I'd seen that, but (before I realised the musk salute connection) I thought a roman hug was a reference to its own thing (like maybe getting stabbed in the back?), rather than just a tongue in cheek reference to the roman salute.
Thanks for the help 😂
I didn't see anybody claiming that, and I don't get why that would be a defense. A roman salute is a fascist symbol that - at least in Italy - is considered identical to the nazi one. They are basically synonyms, so much so that Italian articles reporting on this fact used the term "roman salute" to describe Musk's gesture.
I mean - it is identical, yes.
As far as not seeing those claims, I can tell you its all over LinkedIn hilariously. Also:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-22/elon-musk-accused-salute-donald-trump-inauguration/104845166
https://theconversation.com/elon-musk-and-the-history-of-the-roman-salute-248032
People were using Musk's ND as an excuse for his nazi salute
Thanks, the penny eventually dropped.
Also fuck that noise.
Nothing. Some assholes use it as an excuse to justify shitty behaviours.
It harms the neurodivergent community because it creates the false idea that we can be assholes just because we are ND.
It's much more nuanced than that, but to make it short, that's all about it.
Some assholes use it as an excuse to justify shitty behaviours.
Some Apartheid Clyde apologists claim that his Nazi salute happened due to him being autistic.
Ok, thanks, and I agree. For some reason I thought that last comment was meant to be a funny punchline or something, I think I'm just completely misreading the conversation being shown 😑
Are we going to make someone a criminal just because they made an awkward gesture out of enthusiasm?
I need you to understand people don't "accidentally" make nazi salutes out of enthusiasm.
I agree. But I was referring to killing the CEO.
You ever get halfway through the comments and forget what the topic is even about? I was legit wondering why you were defending Musk also.