“Straight arm gesture.” The lengths people will go to explain away the disgusting behavior of racists. - ThreadSky

sifill.bsky.social • 36 days ago

“Straight arm gesture.”
The lengths people will go to explain away the disgusting behavior of racists.

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The extreme rightwing will always try to defend their own actions, and look for blame to the left. That is how they ALWAYS work.

9114scentralave.bsky.social•35 days ago

What is going on here! Race matters👇

#https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/raleigh-ent-doctor-sentenced-25-years-prison-adulterating-surgical-devices-defrauding

#https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/fayetteville-cardiologist-agrees-pay-over-5-million-resolve-allegedly-false-medicare

9114scentralave.bsky.social•35 days ago

Think about the nazi’s you do not know of that are around you each day. They are the DA’s,Judges, court appointed attorneys. Those that dictate laws! Those that target black Medicaid providers. Think about the prosecutors that skip due process procedures because they can. Especially if your black👇

falkirkbairnexiled.bsky.social•35 days ago

People are afraid that if they acknowledge it, they're obligated to do something about it and they're not brave enough to stand up for what's right.

kindraf.bsky.social•35 days ago

I think also they are afraid to admit their complicity and that they have benefitted from it. That's a whole other level of personal work. They'll go to marches, they'll carry signs, they'll say the good words. But to self reflect and do the work to dig out the fibers in your own being, too much

falkirkbairnexiled.bsky.social•35 days ago

💯

jamhubb.bsky.social•35 days ago

4horses2dogs.bsky.social•34 days ago

A Nazi salute with a "my heart goes out to you" alibi...

fluffyyellowdog.bsky.social•35 days ago

Proper response to the “straight arm gesture” is the “straight finger gesture”!

elo-cin.bsky.social•36 days ago

Someone explains it like this I'm gonna make them show me while I record it.

greyallday.bsky.social•35 days ago

I have never seen the abundance of people that needed many other people to explain what they've just said or done. Look at the Orange Miscreant - he's got whisperers, spinners, interpreters, clarifiers, simplifiers, elucidators... I'm so tired of these clowns telling me that I didn't see what I saw

coquinegra.bsky.social•35 days ago

Nationwide gaslighting

shelleyenglish.bsky.social•36 days ago

Thank you, from a child of a holocaust survivor and granddaughter of an Auschwitz survivor. We are all in this together. Grateful to you for posting.

vero1986.bsky.social•35 days ago

1945, the Nazi salute “was accompanied by ‘Heil Hitler’ or ‘Sieg Heil.’ Since world war two, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists have continued to use the salute, making it the most common white supremacist hand sign in the world.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

meganbrady.bsky.social•35 days ago

For real! How can people deny what we ALL saw? I find it deeply weird and disturbing. Americans are far too trusting.

niknakinoaktown.bsky.social•35 days ago

a nazi salute is a nazi salute is a nazi salute-not that complicated really…

40thmillennial.bsky.social•36 days ago

Now imagine if they approached EDIA program analysis with this much rigor. It would be astounding if we didn’t know the real reason behind it.

ohgeejabari.bsky.social•36 days ago

I mean, yes. But why are we marveling at a thing that has been described and analyzed by Du Bois, Baldwin, Fanon, Lorde, Bell, Ignatiev, Lipsitz, Tatum, Mills, Bonilla-Silva, DiAngelo, Kendi, and many of our blood-relative elders?

At some point, we can’t be shocked by the scorpion’s nature. Right?

hirosh7.bsky.social•36 days ago

In my opinion, this has been going on since they tried to explain away the Rodney King beating video (most of those blows didn't land!). Once they started spinning the J6 violence, you knew it was ball game on reality for them. They didn't care about anything but power.

junkyardjoy3.bsky.social•35 days ago

Too true!

eltopo71.com•36 days ago

I've had it up to [points] HERE with those Nazi salutes

msfiggy2u.bsky.social•36 days ago

Elon Musk is an AFRICAN. Some may even see him as an AFRICAN AMERICAN, post citizenship. He should be so delusional to believe himself to be ARYAN. He is nothing more than just another wanker.

thefascistquestion.bsky.social•36 days ago

Afrikaners will never be African

msfiggy2u.bsky.social•36 days ago

Neither will they ever be AMERICAN.

bluedotinmaine.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yes, a Nazi salute is a “straight arm gesture”. And we’re not going to accept it. F off Nazis!

thefascistquestion.bsky.social•36 days ago

Kendi’s philosophy seems applicable intersectionally now. i.e. one is either nazi or anti-nazi. There is no non-nazi. Pretty sure the mainstream Germans feel this way (“If 2 Germans are sitting at a table & a nazi sits down, there are 3 nazis sitting at the table”)

kindraf.bsky.social•35 days ago

We rightfully judge the Germans who stood silently by just as harshly as those that marched folks to the gas chambers at gun point

anninsantacruz.bsky.social•35 days ago

It’s profoundly insulting and horrifying.

charlene411.bsky.social•36 days ago

wakandangriot.bsky.social•36 days ago

Preach. 🙏🏿

charlene411.bsky.social•36 days ago

Distribute 🇺🇸👍

screaminjay.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yep. We can't solve this. White people are going to have to figure it out. I hope they do. #92percent

schmucko.bsky.social•35 days ago

Another thing ALL people need to solve:

sararar.bsky.social•36 days ago

Waiting for the seemingly inevitable, “He wore a symbol made up of intersecting lines, once utilized by a European political party. Spirited online conversation ensued about the symbol’s supposed meaning in this new context.”

walteriv.bsky.social•36 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com/post/3lgogqynotk2m

wakandangriot.bsky.social•36 days ago

Yes. Including some Democrats who regard the Nazi salute (like Pod Save America’s @jonlovett.bsky.social ) as a distraction and not a symbolic distillation of the racist white grievance that is central to Donald Trump’s messaging.

dutchgirl101.bsky.social•35 days ago

I really love her show and what she does but Rachel Maddow referred to it last week as ‘Roman Salute’. It is not. It is a NAZI salute. Plain. Simple. Wrong.
@maddow.msnbc.com

madjiniman.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yes. And it's just a continuation of the same cowardice that is responsible for the perpetuation of racism.

Disgusting, repulsive, pathetic and weak.

stylemartian444.bsky.social•36 days ago

The disgusting behavior of racists they don't feel personally threatened by and are therefore willing to excuse.

slandrews54.bsky.social•36 days ago

It is disgusting.

earlyvoter.bsky.social•36 days ago

Sending a "middle finger gesture" their way. Hey, it's just like waving, no?

katzst.bsky.social•36 days ago

As if one couldn't tell the difference!
🤦

mesafrets.bsky.social•36 days ago

I hate this. I hate these people, especially in news reporting, who are going through such great lengths to normalize this. 🤢🤮

sfannie53.bsky.social•34 days ago

Just keep telling them all to do it on TV or better yet, in Germany. See how far they get when they’re not the richest man on Earth.

blkruger.bsky.social•36 days ago

If it quacks like a duck it’s a duck. If it salutes like a Nazi, it’s a Nazi.

birdynumnum.bsky.social•36 days ago

DO. NOT. ENGAGE. IN. GASLIGHTING. FULL. STOP.

moneill16.bsky.social•35 days ago

Elon is a Nazi

cindylee.bsky.social•35 days ago

On one hand some people try to claim Elon is a genius. On the other, that he knows not what he does. He grew up as a privileged white male in an apartheid state, & knows exactly what that gesture means. Most everyone on the planet knows what it means. Media is cowardly & gaslights. Shame.