The right wing activist and convicted felon's gesture was identical to the one Musk made at Donald Trump's inauguration The post Steve Bannon Gives Apparent Nazi Salute During CPAC Speech, Mirroring Elon Musk | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
I don’t think this one is nearly as obvious as Musk’s, and I feel like blowing something like this up makes us look bad and will only further them doing sarcastic, vague gestures “as a joke” until it gets normalized more.
It could be a trap, where we make a big deal about it and they claim they’re “joking” each time and then it gets normalized.
But the alternative is preemptively normalizing it by buying into the plausible deniability. There’s no ‘winning’ move, I’d rather call him a fucking Nazi
Bannon’s whole schtick is saving white culture from “Marxism”. It’s not about this being obvious in a single moment in a vacuum. It’s obvious given who he is and what he fights for. He saw Musk get away with it. He wants to reinforce it.
It’s almost like the capitalist media has completely normalized and apologized for fascism.
And even when reporting on it they link to the neo-Nazi site X for the video.
I don’t think this one is nearly as obvious as Musk’s, and I feel like blowing something like this up makes us look bad and will only further them doing sarcastic, vague gestures “as a joke” until it gets normalized more.
My favorite song by the Dead Kennedys is “Nazi Punks Will Go Away on Their Own So Don’t Make a Big Deal About It”
Stop making excuses for fascists.
This is Steve Bannon performing a poor man’s Nazi salute so he can claim plausible deniability later.
He even responds with a smile when the crowd cheers him doing it.
Stop making excuses for fascists. Unless you are one…
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It could be a trap, where we make a big deal about it and they claim they’re “joking” each time and then it gets normalized. But the alternative is preemptively normalizing it by buying into the plausible deniability. There’s no ‘winning’ move, I’d rather call him a fucking Nazi
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Bannon’s whole schtick is saving white culture from “Marxism”. It’s not about this being obvious in a single moment in a vacuum. It’s obvious given who he is and what he fights for. He saw Musk get away with it. He wants to reinforce it.