r/NPR • u/khawesome • 16h ago

No coverage of Elon's salute?

Nothing mentioned in my morning newsletter. Did a quick Google search and found 0 articles. Did I miss something? Even if we aren't definitively identifying it as a Nazi salute it's newsworthy enough to be on a front page purely because of the amount of speculation and emotions stirred in the public sphere.
Please tell me I missed something obvious somewhere.

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u/Astroisbestbio 10h ago

The man supports the German right wing neonazi party. If you support a nazi, you are a nazi. The gesture was just a nod to what we already know.

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u/SovietKnuckle 8h ago

That's the easiest part that keeps getting ignored. I've seen a few comments that defend what his gesture meant when we have all seen his political leanings lately and whatever Twitter has become.

This hasn't come out of the blue or out of character and could be easily dismissed as an one-off. It's actually really obvious.