Playing the silly game of analyzing ambiguous nazi salutes, is a huge waste of time.

Y'all provide hours of entertainment for racists by going back and forth with Black folk about if something was or was not a nazi salute.

A dude could spend years liking every pro-nazi post. Y'all still debate.

The fun in it for them is not even the nazi salute. They're not greeting each other with this one.

The fun in it for them is the ambiguity of it all. They enjoy watching you get spun up for hours, analyzing elbow angles and debating various forms of salute...

And then not doing anything about it🤷🏿‍♂️

People that throw ambiguous nazi salutes have already made their views clear, by everything else they've done up until that point.🤷🏿‍♂️

So if you have to see a nazi salute before you figure it out? That means that you have missed every clue train up until this point, and the clue station is now closing

@mekkaokereke Did it happen again?
@megabyteghost @mekkaokereke I guess this is about Shaun Evans, referee in the 2026 fifa World Cup

@rvstaveren @megabyteghost @mekkaokereke looking for a news article about this, i searched

i see what looks like a referee pointing at something on the field, the news article has an irrelevant video autoplaying

i look all the way down and there's a single linked x widget, i click okay and watch the linked post, from x

camera pans... man makes very clear "inverted ok" white power sign down low like he wanted to make a silly statement out of it

https://www.newsweek.com/who-is-shaun-evans-world-cup-referee-faces-questions-over-hand-gesture-12074735

annoying reporting

Who is Shaun Evans? World Cup Referee Responds to Questions Over Hand Gesture

The official has been accused of making a “neo-Nazi“ gesture during a recent World Cup broadcast.

Newsweek

@rvstaveren @megabyteghost

Um... No. This was about the UFC fighter saluting to honor Trump.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k6JIApqZ_1s&t=487s

Just like Steve Bannon saluted to honor Trump.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cTDMHv0IXt8&t=38s

And Elon Musk saluted to honor Trump.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/R_6dVlz6mug

And Richard Spencer and his supporters saluted to honor Trump.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tisoyP43Ck8

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@mekkaokereke

People with middle class privilege (or people who just think they have that, aka white people) are usually the most invested in not making judgment calls. They crave overwhelming, irrefutable evidence and a super majority of concurrence to even contemplate taking a semi-controversial stance (temporarily). When I taught, one of the hardest things to do was to get poor white kids who didn’t know they were poor to think about an essay prompt for themselves and take a stand. The fear was palpable.

@CptSuperlative @mekkaokereke in my experience, the majority of poor white folks think they are middle class, and that the middle class are wealthy.

My younger self very much included. Ironically, I never realized the difference until I ATTAINED middle class myself... Which gave me the resources and autonomy to spend enough time learning better.

I doubt that I ever would have learned better otherwise.

@mekkaokereke this was the proper way to respond to a Nazi salute.
@mekkaokereke wait did this happen again or are people still talking about the Elon one from ages ago? how often are public figures doing ambiguous nazi salutes over there?????