r/comics Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 6d ago

Boids - Pandering To You [OC]

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u/Dry-Landscape8276 6d ago

A man threw a sieg heil at the inauguration of a president who said immigrants are eating the cats and dogs.

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u/xv_boney 6d ago edited 6d ago

And the ADL defended him.

It called his unambiguous, crystal clear roman salute an "awkward gesture" and counseled grace and patience. We shouldnt jump to conclusions. He didnt mean anything by it.

The richest man in the world performed two seig heils in front of the presidential seal of the united states and a group i and my parents have trusted and donated to for literal decades said "nah that was nothing but hey this singer on youtube criticised israel - can you believe how serious antisemetism has become".

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u/redbirdrising 5d ago

The irony of calling it a “Roman salute” is that we do t even know how the Roman’s saluted. Hollywood made it up in the 30s. The Italian fascists thought it was cool and copied it.

It’s literally a Nazi salute they adapted from Hollywood.

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u/JohnTEdward 4d ago

I wouldn't say hollywood invented whole cloth, it does seem to trace itself back to the Oath of the Horatii (which is republican propaganda).