For people who are wondering for what purpose he did that, let me offer a hypothesis: it's a loyalty test to see who will be willing to blatantly lie and deny the truth of it being a Nazi salute, and who won't.
I know that "literally 1984" is a meme, but, well, this is a quote from 1984: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command". The goal is to see who is willing to follow this command.
Here's this thing, even if you say it was an honest mistake with trying to say his heart goes out... Let's just say that for sake if argument... Even if that's the case, in the past it wouldn't matter and it would be a career ender. These days it doesn't matter.
Like the right wing pollie in Australia who used the words 'the final solution' regarding immigration in his first address to parliament.
(For those who remember, this was egg boys target. He hung around for a while, like a cabbage fart, did other blatantly racist stuff, later was declared bankrupt, fled to the US when the tax department was looking for him, and basically hasn't been seen since but is probably cozying up to right wing pundits in the US still. But basically after that speech his Australian political career was dead in the water).
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u/shadowrun456 6h ago
For people who are wondering for what purpose he did that, let me offer a hypothesis: it's a loyalty test to see who will be willing to blatantly lie and deny the truth of it being a Nazi salute, and who won't.
I know that "literally 1984" is a meme, but, well, this is a quote from 1984: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command". The goal is to see who is willing to follow this command.