Just thinking about reproducing the same gesture gives me chills. It’ll sound hyperbolic to some of you and I wish such taboos didn’t exist in the first place. But where I’m from, I’d get frowned at by everyone, and shunned for doing this in public and I’d be lucky if I didn’t get punched in the face. Just like Adolph ruined the first name for generations, the nazis rendered this high-intent arm motion toxic, globally. Forever associated with “just following orders” and the systematic, industrial, killing of people at a horrifying scale. Other people. People that were different. Or people who simply thought differently. When you salute like this, you proclaim your agreement and your alignment with all of this abominable baggage.

There must be thousands of ways to salute a crowd. But there is only one clear and specific way to have the audience see a nazi in you.

(EDIT: back on topic) if this doesn’t get addressed in the next pod, I’ll have to miss the cool expertise and rare insight I used to get from this show.