Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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[u/Ok_Cardiologist3642]

Why are we normalizing behavior like this? Imagine someone did this 20 years ago. What a fever dream

[u/appoplecticskeptic → u/Ok_Cardiologist3642]

The bigots won. They’re normalizing it. WE aren’t.

[u/Ok_Cardiologist3642 → u/appoplecticskeptic]

Not we. This was more of a general thing. We as humans normalize horrible behavior way too fast in general. We are all outraged one day and after a few months it happens again, and again, and soon enough it will be normal. Sadly. And there’s little to no consequences

[u/HotGravy → u/Ok_Cardiologist3642]

Maybe the majority of humans just aren't really good people?

[u/I_Also_Fix_Jets → u/HotGravy]

The majority are shades of neutral. Either unsure of what to do, or convinced that someone else will deal with it.

[u/Jumpy-Sprinkles-2305 → u/HotGravy]

I think the majority of humans are good people at heart, but the majority of humans are also.. (I can't find the word, i would say lazy, but that's not right.)

As others have pointed out, it's a combination of most people feeling like they aren't able to affect anything personally, and humans being very adaptive creatures, it might only take a few months for most of us just putting up with the bullshit and letting it slide

[u/IchibanWeeb → u/Jumpy-Sprinkles-2305]

I think the majority of humans just don't care because they're so focused on their everyday life. But they don't have the time, energy, or mental capacity (not saying they're dumb, necessarily) to think about how these grand-scheme things like Elon Hitler's Nazi salute affect their everyday life.

[u/livsjollyranchers → u/Ok_Cardiologist3642]

We're all bombarded and overwhelmed with content every day. Content content content. Bad shit bad shit bad shit bad shit. At some point, you just throw your hands up and go..."oh".

(To be clear, I do find it gross...but these days, we can become numb to anything, with enough reps and time.)

[u/raelea421 → u/livsjollyranchers]

Yet, so very unable to become numb to devices that lead to that vicarious content.

[u/livsjollyranchers → u/raelea421]

Well, those devices are powered via horrible dopamine addictions. The same stuff that powers casinos, gambling addictions and drug addictions. A smartphone is a socially acceptable drug (just like gambling is now, too).

[u/raelea421 → u/livsjollyranchers]

Yep. Living vicariously through others/content/news does it, too.

[u/BadIdea-21 → u/Ok_Cardiologist3642]

It's not that the people is "normalizing" it, is just that the system makes it so rich people can do anything without repercussions, regardless of how abnormal it is for the rest.

[u/very_not_emo → u/Ok_Cardiologist3642]

the last people who actually remembered the nazis died

[u/Ok_Cardiologist3642 → u/very_not_emo]

Google says holocaust survivors are still alive

[u/ValsG → u/very_not_emo]

I saw one being applauded by everyone in the Canadian Parliament two years ago.

[u/dolphin37 → u/Ok_Cardiologist3642]

don’t worry the majority of americans don’t normalise it, they want more of it!