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"He probably did it as a joke."
Actual excuse I've heard from multiple people.
I thought the point of a joke was to be funny? What is funny about memeing a Nazi salute?
People are goddamn morons.
They're lying. The joke is on you.
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jokes on them. I feel sorry for stupid people.
Cognitive dissonance, baybee.
I don't think it's lack of intelligence, but people just following the path of least resistance. It's uncomfy to come to terms with the fact that a Nazi is in an extremely powerful unelected position, so obviously he can't possibly be a Nazi and everything is fine :D
Some people are just goddamn morons though.
I have asked a similar question many times in the past when people excuse such things as jokes:
What is the effective difference between doing a Nazi salute like that "as a joke" and just doing one?
Same thing I ask when people claim they are being racist as a joke.
The difference between the public and private spheres. There is absolutely no way to make a Nazi salute jokes in public spheres, full stop. In the private sphere I can imagine it.
"What's the difference between a dog and a Nazi? One goes like this [does Nazi salute] and one goes like this [raises leg]!"
Plausible deniability. Pushing a boundary instead of breaking a taboo.
That is not an effective difference, that's an excuse.
Correct, but so long as people keep favoring decorum over decency, it doesn't matter.
I've also heard the excuse "he's autistic"
An excuse is all it is
Ah yes, the spectrum between pet the dog, hailing a taxi, and exterminating bad races.
I mean he did. It was a shitty ass hole joke. He just wanted to piss the woke people off it definitely worked.
Woke is now defined as being appalled by Nazis? I thought that was just common sense.
He just wanted to piss off anyone who he thinks is his enemy. Is what I meant by woke.
Probably should just drop the term altogether then. It basically implies that being a moron is somehow virtuous.
You mean like the antisemitism he spewed like a day ago?
What?
Oh, you didn't see that? Go do a search. Musk is a fascist and saying otherwise is just running interference.
Are you mistaking my comment for someone else? When did I ever defend him or say anything good about him.
Saying it was a joke to piss woke people off is defending, deflecting and otherwise making excuses for the fascist.
I don't think it is. That's what he was doing. I'm not defending him by agreeing he did a Nazi salute.
Can you explain how people being upset about credible threats of terrorism is funny?
I didn't say it was funny.
Sure 👌