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minus-squareAcidbath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·22 hours agoDidn’t we used to do the nazi salute for the pledge of allegience before ww2? I remember reading it somewhere but also FUCK NAZIS
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·22 hours agoThe pledge itself is already nazi bullshit.
minus-squareFionalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-217 hours agoAFAIK it was a reference to the “Italian Salute”, aka Mussolini, the coiner of the term fascism… So not really all that much better…
minus-squarenandeEbisu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 hours agoTbf, it didn’t have the Nazi connotation then. It’s like how the meaning of the Swastika has changed over time. It been common in Hindu and Buddhist iconography for over a thousand years.
Didn’t we used to do the nazi salute for the pledge of allegience before ww2? I remember reading it somewhere but also FUCK NAZIS
The pledge itself is already nazi bullshit.
AFAIK it was a reference to the “Italian Salute”, aka Mussolini, the coiner of the term fascism… So not really all that much better…
Tbf, it didn’t have the Nazi connotation then. It’s like how the meaning of the Swastika has changed over time. It been common in Hindu and Buddhist iconography for over a thousand years.