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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 30 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Surely them doing the Nazis salute counts as cultural appropriation. The right-wing German should be complaining about it. They need to come up with their own salutes

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago

Hey! That's our thing!

[–] Acidbath@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Didn't we used to do the nazi salute for the pledge of allegience before ww2? I remember reading it somewhere but also FUCK NAZIS

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago

The pledge itself is already nazi bullshit.

[–] Fiona@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

AFAIK it was a reference to the “Italian Salute”, aka Mussolini, the coiner of the term fascism… So not really all that much better…

[–] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Tbf, it didn't have the Nazi connotation then. It's like how the meaning of the Swastika has changed over time. It been common in Hindu and Buddhist iconography for over a thousand years.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

TBF in this case stands for "to be rational".