• EvilBit@lemmy.world
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    Here’s how you know he wasn’t “throwing his heart out”: No gesture of that level of verve and publicity has EVER, in the history of media or public speaking, been interpreted as a Nazi salute EXCEPT a Nazi fucking salute.

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      They know it is, this is standard gaslighting, and wherever they do this it should be pointed out together with a video showing it side by side. So far I did not get response from them after that.

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      The Nazis got it from the fascists who got it from a screenplay from D’Annunzio that Mussolini liked. D’Annunzio pulled it out of his ass, Romans didn’t salute like that.

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        apparently the stage production of Ben-Hur had it in 1899 and “Historians have instead determined that the gesture originated from Jacques-Louis David’s 1784 painting Oath of the Horatii, which displayed a raised arm salutatory gesture in an ancient Roman setting.” - Wikipedia

        but your point stands Romans didn’t do that shit.