I did Nazi that coming.Do not give to them.
We've know that their CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, is a complete prat, after all, he unironically compared Elon Musk to notorious antisemite Henry Ford as a compliment, and decided that the ADL would resume advertising on Ecch (Twitter).
And now, he and his organization are making excuses for Elon Musk's Nazi salute at the inauguration yesterday.
Some things that you need to know:
- The Romans never actually gave this salute. This was created in the 1700s, and popularized by the Italian fascists.
- It could have been the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging salute, they are a Neo Nazi party in South Africa.
- Musk knew what he was doing because his grandparents were literal Nazis.
- Literal Nazis are crowing about it.
The fact that the ADL is still trying to suck suck up to His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Doctor Elon Musk, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Texas in Particular.
He knew what he was doing:
Of all the dark moments during Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, the darkest may have been the moment Trump acolyte and world’s richest man Elon Musk threw up not one but two Roman salutes—the gesture most strongly associated with Nazis and the phrase “Heil Hitler,” but also used as a symbol of support in other fascist regimes. The gesture was shocking, and observers from the left to the racist right alike agreed on what they saw. Neo-Nazis cheered. (“Holy crap … did Elon Musk just Heil Hitler at the Trump Inauguration Rally in Washington DC … This is incredible,” one prominent Holocaust denier wrote, later adding, “We are so back.”) Moderates and liberals were shaken.
All good people should have been shaken, regardless of political bent.
Again, I note: the Romans NEVER used this salute.
One group, though, was unbothered: The Anti-Defamation League, which has as its mission fighting antisemitism and bigotry more broadly.
“It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge,” the ADL posted on the Musk-owned X. “In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.”
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Perhaps Musk wasn’t throwing up a deliberate sieg heil; he is notoriously physically awkward, throwing his limbs around in ways that are often outside of the normal range of human movement. But Musk has made a series of public posts and comments that make it awfully hard to conclude he doesn’t actually harbor racist and antisemitic views, and that should at the very least make groups like the ADL think twice before extending the benefit of the doubt. He is loudly supporting a German far-right party with connections to neo-Nazis. He changed his X avatar to Pepe the Frog, a symbol of far-right racism and antisemitism. After violent anti-immigrant riots rocked the U.K. last summer, Musk sided with the rioters: He has been a vocal supporter of the British far-right hatemonger Tommy Robinson, and was incensed by the seven-year jail sentence handed down to a man who posted an image of a map with a mosque circled in red and the caption “TIME FOR WAR”—a post found to have incited some of the riots. (The mosque was indeed attacked; “we started the southport and liverpool riots, all it took was a telegram and a tiktok account,” the man wrote.) In 2023, after Musk allowed white supremacists to run rampant on his newly acquired social media platform, one X user posted: “Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much. You want truth said to your face, there it is.” Musk responded, “You have said the actual truth.”
Elon Musk is a bigot, and more specifically, he is an antisemite. He has already shown us this, and the ADL is still sucking up to him.
Do not make donations to the ADL. Refuse to talk to their fund raisers.
At a minimum Jonathan Greenblatt and the rest of his cronies should be fired ……… out of a cannon ……… and into the sun.
You had one job, motherfuckers.
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