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It feels so weird to call this controversial. Doesn't that usually mean something similar to "polarising"? Who are on the poles here? Nazis, and the rest of the world?
From the wiki entry, "...interpreted by many as a Nazi or fascist" salute. It's like, yeah I guess it was interpreted by many that way, in the same way many people interpret water to be wet.
Why are the writers of this wiki entry giving so much wiggle room for Nazis? What the fuck?
It's "controversial" because Nazism has somehow became acceptable to a considerable chunk of the population, who publicly deny it, thus creating "controversy".
America never dealt with its racism problem.
Nazis...
It's been so long since people killed Nazis. We forgot that Nazis exist. Same problem we're having with vaccines. We prefer to learn the hard way...
As far as I understand, yes.
'Murica.
Because Wikipedia is "leftist propaganda", and they'll be sued for libel the moment they declare him a Nazi.
lol
it's regime propaganda, always was
its because trump/maga do shit like this and constantly deny and pretend its a misunderstanding. Its like the guy with a schwastika in the red lines of the american flag he had in the background and the immediate response was it was the software doing it on video but the flag looked normal in person. Which was shown to be bs in like 5 seconds because the guy had hung up a flag given to him that walked around and offered them to all the offices in the building.
He was throwing his heart out to the Nazis.