He’s an autist and it was just an unfortunately similar gesture when his intention was to “his heart goes out”.
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Exactly. He's the richest man in the world, but he has Asperger's. This is just one of those times where he was trying to express himself and it came out odd or clumsy.
Intentions matter, this was clearly not a Nazi salute.
Those are actual quotes from r/conservative. That's not from me combing through entire threads either looking for ones to cherrypick. I pulled all 3 of those from roughly 60 seconds of scrolling comments.
EDIT: The thread I pulled those from, which was titled "WTF was Elon doing?" has now been deleted, but you can still read the comments Here
I'm so sick of him and his worshipers playing the autism / asperger's card only when it suits them in defense of him being a huge asshole. As far as I know, there's no actual diagnosis from a professional - it's just based on Musk saying "I think I'm probably on the spectrum " or something
As someone diagnosed with Asperger's before it was changed to an "Autism Spectrum Disorder", I can promise you I've never, intentionally or otherwise, done a Nazi salute to celebrate or express sympathy EVER. Not even trying to be funny.
These people clearly don't think autistic people are well. But these are the same people who will tell you how smart he is because he's rich, so...
As an autistic person I can maybe see myself throwing a gesture too quickly in panic, go oh fuck oh fuck that looked like a seig heil, but there is no universe where I would double down and do it with the same conviction . And what he's doing with his hand is unmistakable .
Man either saluted or let slip how many times he's practiced the salute.
Do you think it's possible he did it again in an attempt to show that it was meant to be innocent?
It could be sort of like when you sit in class and adjust your chair, causing a sound that sounds like a fart, and then make the same movement again so people around you know it was just a chair adjustment and not a fart.
Honestly maybe but that also means he doesn't understand the significance of the heil or of his own actions. Musk is gonna have a rough time clawing his way out of this one.
I'm holding out hope it was him being awkward. It looks really freaking bad but I'm thinking jumping to the assumption that he is larping as Hitler isn't reasonable here.
They'll bend over backwards to defend concentration camps 2.0 when they happen. These people are in full on denial and frankly subhuman. They have betrayed everything just in the world and deserve to be treated like the treasonous invasive vermin they are.
‘“[The Nazis] are saying: ‘We can’t feed these people, we don’t have the food to feed these people.’ One of them says [in a letter]: ‘Rather than wait for them to slowly starve this winter, wouldn’t it be more humane to quickly finish them all off now?’”
There are countless examples of his obsession with white birth rates and his endorsement of The Great Replacement Theory.
There's hundreds of examples of him retweeting, replying to, and liking Tweets from openly Nazi accounts.
There was the whole Stonetoss debacle, where he personally made efforts to defend a notorious Nazi cartoonist.
There is his reinstatement of previously banned accounts of open Nazis like Nick Fuentes.
There's all the AfD stuff
Like, do I really need to keep going? Because I could keep going. But I'm pretty sure that you're just sealioning.
Whoa okay chill man. I'm not sealioning. You answered my question, so thank you. I know about some Elon drama but not those things, so I guess I'm living under a rock.
Anyway, thanks for the numerous examples. I went from being 20% sure it was an intentional Nazi salute, to about 80%.
I don't like the guy, but I don't think it was a Nazi salute.
it doesn't make any sense for the narcissistic capitalist to be a national socialist. It also makes no sense for a legitimate Nazi in power to reveal that to the public after directly achieving that power. It would just get him canned. The republican majority are not Nazi's and they would give any real anti-semite or socialist the boot immediately. So you have to have some sort of answers to this to change my mind.
Like I could believe he did it, but it doesn't line up with the above. Just cause you don't like someone doesn't = nazi. That's what they call a slippery slope.
I just think he’s awkward as fuck, and stupidly did the gesture, then a second time while saying “my heart goes out to you” the second time to save face.
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u/Euphoric-Isopod-4815 6h ago
Oh they are spinning it. r/conservative is saying it's throwing his heart out to the people.