Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, recently found himself at the center of a controversy after a speech at Capitol One Arena, where a simple gesture was misinterpreted by some as a Nazi salute.
Amid intense reaction, Musk himself rubbished the says bashing identity advertising. Musk responded to the” Nazi” accusations on Tuesday, by echoing Libs of TikTok X channel which compared Musk’s gesture to ones used by Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren. Quoting the post, Musk said,” The legacy media is pure propaganda,” and asserting the Libs of TikTok channel as” the media now”.
Composites of TikTok even hit back at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, claiming she had made similar movements. Elon Musk even jumped on the string to clapback at AOC saying,” Haha this is awesome,” with laughing emojis.
Popular pro-Republican network EndWokeness went on to attract opposite between Taylor Swift and Hitler in an attempt to protect Musk.
A legislation professor took to X to come with a concept claiming that it was really a Roman respect for love.
Some other Democratic donors took to social media to support Musk, dismissing claims that the salute had anything to do with Germans by drawing analogies to other rulers, in a similar manner to Musk.
Musk had earlier likewise dismissed that claim by referring to them as “dirty tips”. Quoting a post which attributed Musk’s gesture as” “dirty tricks campaign”, the X owner had said,” Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The “everyone is Hitler ” attack is sooo tired. “
The discussion began, during a conversation at Capitol One Arena, Musk made a sweeping movement while expressing his thanks to the masses. While his followers saw it as an emotional show of cheers, critics interpreted the movement as resembling the renowned” Heil Hitler” respect.
