floofloof@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoCBS 58's Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesturewww.jsonline.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
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minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·1 day agoNot an arm gesture Anyone who keeps saying it and everyone who keeps accepting it is allowing creeping nazism and right wing ideology
minus-squareBrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 day agoI love the response one person gave on Instagram. “If it’s no big deal, post a video of yourself doing the same in gesture.”
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 day agoSo the game begins … now everyone will start doing it and laughing at it as a joke … another step towards normalizing it. You fight and challenge it at every step and development because you can fight now in the early stages. Once it goes too far, no one will be able to fight it.
minus-squareIapar@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 hours agoMaybe it has to go to far so people start fighting it. Most people still have to much to lose.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-220 hours agoGermany had similar conversations in the 1930s And if you think this is exaggeration, it all started with small steps with leaders and opponents standing by saying that no one would go that far. Until of course it was all too late.
Not an arm gesture
Anyone who keeps saying it and everyone who keeps accepting it is allowing creeping nazism and right wing ideology
I love the response one person gave on Instagram. “If it’s no big deal, post a video of yourself doing the same in gesture.”
So the game begins … now everyone will start doing it and laughing at it as a joke … another step towards normalizing it.
You fight and challenge it at every step and development because you can fight now in the early stages.
Once it goes too far, no one will be able to fight it.
Maybe it has to go to far so people start fighting it.
Most people still have to much to lose.
Germany had similar conversations in the 1930s
And if you think this is exaggeration, it all started with small steps with leaders and opponents standing by saying that no one would go that far. Until of course it was all too late.