Why is this flagged? Surely one of the most influential people in the tech space (and the richest man in the world) doing a nazi salute is pertinent to Hacker News?

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Whatever you hear as an explanation for this, Musk knew how this would be seen/received and made a show of doing it.

If I suspend all possible disbelief, the best scenario is a rich white kid raised in Apartheid South Africa giving "Roman Salutes" to troll people for his own personal LOLs?

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This is, unfortunately, not one of those cases where the full video makes it any better.

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Not once, but twice: https://i.imgur.com/E4POKCK.gif

(mirror: https://files.catbox.moe/icky5m.mp4 )

This is problematic.

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