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A Milwaukee-based CBS affiliate has dismissed one of its weather presenters after she reportedly called Elon Musk a Nazi on social media, over a gesture the tech billionaire made during an inauguration rally for US President Donald Trump.

WDJT-TV (Channel 58), where meteorologist Sam Kuffel had worked since 2019, has confirmed her departure but provided no official explanation in an internal memo to or public comments, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

While the station described the matter as a “personal issue,” Kuffel was reportedly dismissed one day after commenting on Musk’s gesture on her Instagram account.

The TV channel has removed Kuffel’s bio from its website and no longer mentions her in its weather section, but retains articles written by her. Her Instagram account has been set to private, but screenshots purportedly capturing her posts are available online. She has not commented publicly on the incident.

Before her tenure at WDJT-TV, the journalist worked at WAOW-TV (Channel 9) in Wausau, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a degree in atmospheric science.

The Anti-Defamation League, a US-based pro-Israeli group which monitors anti-Semitism and hate speech, has described Musk’s gesture as “awkward” but did not say it was a Nazi salute. Similarly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the subject of an International Criminal Court warrant on charges related to genocide, has tweeted in support of the X owner, declaring him to be “a friend of Israel.”

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[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 6 points 1 hour ago

So Netanyahu, leader of a bunch of Nazis, just said he's a friend to them, case closed.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 1 points 34 minutes ago (1 children)

wasn't there a quote about control and knowing who you can't criticize?

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 minutes ago (2 children)
[–] Leg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 minutes ago

Democrats are criticized by democrats all the time. Republicans actively censor all criticism they have control over.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 minutes ago

You can't criticize the democrats? Did Fox News shut down?

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 hour ago

OMG the comments section on that article is something...

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 45 points 8 hours ago

Right so calling the guy who endorses and promotes Nazis on his website, who reuses Nazi rhetoric and who uses Nazis symbols on camera is reckless?

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 hours ago

You know there is a specific type of person who holds 95% percent Nazi views, but is pointing fingers in all directions when an actual Nazi is called out as a Nazi. It is the same type of person that says he hates rapists most of all things, but never admits there is enough proof of sexual misconduct about any actual rapist. That person is the next door m'fer that enables fascism and patriarchy throughout history, and he is complicit to both.

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 59 points 9 hours ago

Garbage article, hiding behind the ADL, afraid to call him a nazi as well. Cowards who don't call out nazi-ism are playing defense for the nazi's. To the wall with the lots of them, good on Sam for not bowing to fascist authority.

[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 8 hours ago

Musk tried to defend his flagrant Nazi pageantry by pointing himself out as a Zionist. Wasn't literally Hitler a supporter of the creation of Israel (a Jewish state)?

Over this past year of Israel's full-throated genocide in Palestine, I've been surprised to not see it pointed out that (to my understanding) Zionism was a platform of the Nazi party.

Am I wrong? Was Zionism not so explicitly supported by the Nazi party?

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 28 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

If a fascist man, who nazi salutes at public events and who publicly supports nazi and fascist aligned governments around the world cannot be called a nazi, who can?

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 5 points 6 hours ago

Jewish Voice for Peace

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

From their perspective, Democrats.

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

From their perspective? Feminists.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

Sure, them too.

[–] butsbutts@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago

this is where u support them and prop them up to motivate people to do the same

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

if i hear one more lib tell me that in USA you can freely say anything without repercussions as an argument...

[–] Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

UN vote on combating glorification of nazism

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 37 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's that same fucking map again

[–] Karkitoo@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 hours ago (9 children)

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/11/09/why-france-and-51-other-countries-voted-against-the-un-resolution-condemning-nazism_6003471_8.html

TL:DR the countries who voted against did so to prevent Russia from using this vote as a justification for their invasion of Ukraine. Indeed they used the pretense of "removing Nazis" for their invasion.

These countries do not condone fascism (or at least officially. I'm looking at you, USA)

[–] stray@pawb.social 2 points 1 hour ago

I've never been good at reading stuff like this, so it's more than plausible I'm just missing it, but I can't find where the resolution would give anyone the legal power or moral authority to invade another state.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 hours ago

Indeed they used the pretense of “removing Nazis”

Absolutely huge brained move to vote for the glorification of nazism in response.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 9 hours ago

Defending nazism to own the russkies, what a great policy.

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 31 points 9 hours ago

to prevent Russia from using this vote as a justification for their invasion of Ukraine.

The UN has, on a few occasions, voted to sanctioned war as lawful and justified. The resolution to condemn Nazism is absolutely not that, and it is pure bullshit to claim it would be functionally the same.

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 47 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Damn that's crazy that the country full of nazis and the fascist military industrial complex masquerading as a country arming them with billions of dollars worth of weapons would be the only two in the world to vote against the glorification of nazism. Totally wild. Oh and they vote against it every time, for years? Wow crazy wonder what's up with that.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 44 points 10 hours ago

TL:DR the countries who voted against did so to prevent Russia from using this vote as a justification for their invasion of Ukraine. Indeed they used the pretense of "removing Nazis" for their invasion.

This doesn't explain why the West has repeatedly voted against it for over a decade.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 36 points 10 hours ago

Denouncing nazis would embolden our enemies huh

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 31 points 10 hours ago

how's this explain germany, which abstained?

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 9 hours ago

Antidefamation league? More like antisemitism defence league.

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 13 points 9 hours ago
[–] zante@slrpnk.net 32 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Love how he’s been championing Nazis and telling holocaust jokes for years , but the salute is somehow too much for people

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 minutes ago

And the ADL condones the salute, but condemns the jokes.

[–] lemmus@lemmy.world 48 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

There must be a better source for this news than RT.

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The leader of the free world everybody.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 6 points 9 hours ago

The world arbiter of freedom and goodness

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Is there even a leader of a free world any more? When the US went fascist it was Germany, but they've been having issues too lately.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The whole free world was a bullshit narrative to begin with.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 27 points 12 hours ago (6 children)
[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 12 hours ago

How far we have fallen

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[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

If it quacks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, maybe, just maybe its a duck. They will still give some political grace saying its jot PC to call him a nazi even if he starts calling tump "mein fuher", starts preaching mein kampf, and starts building oddly large ovens.

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