Saying Musk may not have intended his gesture to come off how it did =/= promoting any racist or murderous group or agenda
You can literally see in the very conversations he redirects to that I condemn both Nazism and Elon Musk.
What he “may have intended” is irrelevant. He knew what he did. He did it twice. Elon Musk is an idiot but even he isn’t so stupid as to not realize what he was doing. Having the absolute thinnest veil of plausible deniability isn’t an excuse.
Your defense would be equally as applicable, and just as stupid, if he started requiring all Tesla cars to have a Swastika prominently displayed at all times, claiming “Well it was an ancient Buddhist symbol first, Maybe that’s what he meant!”
Agreed. The end result doesn’t give a shit about the initial intent.
“Your honor, it wasn’t my intent to wash a fifth of gin down with an ounce of ket and then drive through a school playground during recess.”
“Oh, you didn’t mean it? Free to go!”
Not really what we were talking about, but alright.
Fucker did it twice
Both accidents, duh.
Go bark somewhere else, sealion
If that is your counter, maybe it would please you to know that, as per the wishes of those enforcing the rules, I have obliged a while ago, and now we’re just waiting for things to die down on the side of the charger, who are why any of us ever showed up.
See, if I had done something so boneheadingly stupid as an accident, I would immediately be putting out statements clarifying that it wasn’t a Nazi salute. It’s what we would expect any reasonable person to do.
Elon Musk himself has not denied that it was a Nazi salute.
Why do you think he’s refused to clarify?
I don’t know, but inspired by one of the mods getting to me, I’m conceding defeat.
Typically, if you’ve been told to avoid going down a path, that usually means not commenting on it further, and also not constantly linking to the same place where you were told to avoid going down a path.
I’m not exactly responding to a typical situation here though. But I still promise to live up to what they wished.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A nazi did a nazi salute. He might or might not intended to do it. Semantics are irrelevant.
Bonus@lemm.ee 1 month ago
How can anyone suggest he didn’t intend to do it? M-fer put more heart and back into it than Hitler ever did and then he clicked heel, did an about face, and doubled down with as much or more enthusiasm. There was nothing accidental about it. He’s an Afrikaner apartheid loving Nazi. I know everyone knows this but you all don’t have to waste your time arguing about what the entire world saw televised.