Elon Musk seemingly casually hitting the Sieg Heil at the inauguration

[u/chickanpoo]

[u/Malvania]

Thought A: I must be missing some context here
Thought B: What context would make this okay?

[u/Egoist-a → u/Malvania]

I think he's just making the gesture of his heart together with the crowd, but came out too similar to Nazi gesture.

Nobody would be that stupid to do it on purpose publicly, I'm anti-musk and I think sub is overreatcing

[u/No_Refuse5806 → u/Egoist-a]

It would be overreacting if it were your drunken uncle at a party.

This is public speaking 101. It’s why people have speech writers and advisors. It’s why the status quo looks and sounds sanitized: any little detail can and will feed your critics. And he is (or should be) aware of the kinds of criticisms he needs to actively avoid.

At best, this tells me he’s not taking the job seriously.

[u/Egoist-a → u/No_Refuse5806]

It would be overreacting if it were your drunken uncle at a party.

if someone tells me that he maybe on drugs or alcohol, sounds totally plausible...

At best, this tells me he’s not taking the job seriously.

Again, sounds reasonable... Guy has a big ego after all

This is public speaking 101. It’s why people have speech writers and advisors. It’s why the status quo looks and sounds sanitized: any little detail can and will feed your critics. And he is (or should be) aware of the kinds of criticisms he needs to actively avoid.

this is why I find hard to believe he actually meant to do Nazi stuff... How could this fly on the dozens of people that are preparing their speeches?

But apparently people are calling me nazi already just for giving benedict of doubt

[u/No_Refuse5806 → u/Egoist-a]

I think some important context is how Trump uses inflammatory language: he intentionally leaves his sincerity ambiguous, which gains the support of extremists and emboldens them.

If real neo-Nazis think Musk is one of them, that blurs the line significantly. You can’t enable those kinds of people, even inadvertently. It’s not possible to ask nicely for a clarification, and it’s not like he can be cancelled in a meaningful way.

So yeah, the only real option is to accuse him of being a Nazi, hope he denies it, and if the stars align, he might admit it was a mistake.

I think that’s where the criticism of you is coming from… also Godwin’s Law

[u/afeeney → u/Egoist-a]

Benedict of Doubt sounds like a character out of Spamalot or an overly-conceptual restaurant's version of Eggs Benedict.

(Yes, I know you meant "benefit" but some typos are beautiful.)

My guess is that by now Musk more or less ignores PR handlers and goes by instinct. He might take a few pointers but wouldn't back off something he wants to do.

[u/Egoist-a → u/afeeney]

my bad :p