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The Far Right's Usage of Strategic Ambiguity

Posted by Maestro on 2/3/2025, 4:26 pm

Anyone with only the slightest knowledge of the rise of Hitler and the fascist movement clearly recognizes the Nazi salute when they see it. Elon Musk's unambiguous gesture at a Trump rally, according to Scott McGregor, a communications professor at the University of North Carolina, "has the hallmarks of what we call 'strategic ambiguity,' which is something that's also often employed by those on the right. It's aimed at different audiences who might interpret it differently. But the communicator stands to gain something from that." https://www.wamc.org/2025-01-23/elon-musk-tried-to-turn-the-salute-controversy-into-a-joke

Re: The Far Right's Usage of Strategic Ambiguity

Posted by gm on 2/4/2025, 1:08 pm, in reply to "The Far Right's Usage of Strategic Ambiguity"

It all makes sense.
Everyone on the far-right & neo-Nazi movement praised Musk for that salute. They had no doubt in their minds it was a Sieg Heil kinda thing.
More instructive for me was how quickly the ADL and other Jewish organizations (not all) sought to give Musk a pass for what he did twice, the so-called "awkard gesture".
It was only the next day when he started making jokes about Nazism etc., did the ADL eventually & carefully criticize Elon Musk. Such hypocrites!
These days you're only an antisemite if you don't support Israel without qualifications.

Btw, if any other leader acted the way Trump is acting & abusing power, the US would be loudly condemning them and imposing sanctions.

When a Black man gives The Elon Musk Nazi Salute, here is what happened...LOL, (article)

Posted by theone on 2/4/2025, 5:30 pm, in reply to "Re: The Far Right's Usage of Strategic Ambiguity"

Calvin Robinson(photo below) said he made gesture as "a joke" to mock those who denounced Elon Musk’s similar salute.

Calvin Robinson who is a Michigan priest was "defrocked" after making apparent Nazi salute at anti-abortion summit. He is originally Afro-Caribbean born in Mansfield, England, moved to the United States in 2024(just last year) to become a priest in the Anglican Catholic Church.

Robinson is of mixed-race heritage, his paternal grandparents emigrated from Jamaica as members of the Windrush generation.

LOL, hahaha, now in terms of "Colorism" Kris told us a number of times already that in many cases(and even historically) he had been catching more hell from these mixed race Blacks than the ones who are completely dark skinned. I've personally started to believe Kris in his remark especially when I learned a few years ago that the Guy who assassinated the designer of Apartheid in South Africa was himself a mixed race(Greek and Mozambican) who stabbed more than 10 times the former White/Boer South African president Mr Hendrik Verwoerd in 1966.

Link: The Guardian

Re: When a Black man gives The Elon Musk Nazi Salute, here is what happened...LOL, (article)

Posted by GM on 2/4/2025, 6:57 pm, in reply to "When a Black man gives The Elon Musk Nazi Salute, here is what happened...LOL, (article)"

I posted about him some time ago for dismissing colonialism, imperialism and the slave trade etc..
He is a British Clarence Thomas who's luck has run out..
LOL.. now he'll have to go back to England! He is a mixed race clown with a Jamaican heritiage - white & Jamaican.

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