Posted on 08/19/2024 1:21:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The boss of Foxtel - a majority News Corp-owned cable television company in Australia - has "unreservedly" apologised after an image surfaced of him performing a Nazi salute.
Patrick Delaney said he believed he was showing "the similarity" between the gesture and one used by some fans of a Western Sydney soccer club when the photo was taken a decade ago. "Regardless of the context, the fact I demonstrated this offensive salute was wrong," he said in an email to staff seen by the BBC. The Jewish Council of Australia condemned Mr Delaney's actions as "deeply concerning".
“Equally [concerning] is that he operates in a media industry where he felt this was somehow okay," Sarah Schwartz, the council's executive officer, said in a statement on Monday. "It shouldn't need to be said that the salute is an offensive and violent act not only for Jews, but also for other racialised groups."
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Lefties will take still frames of conservatives all the time mid wave to say “NAZI SALUTE.” They did it to every republican I can remember. Especially McCain with his handicap from his torture (BY COMMIES) as a POW.
he was just waving to a friend...
sheesh. can’t a guy wave to a friend...
The Bellamy Salute
The Bellamy salute is a palm-out salute created by James B. Upham as the gesture that was to accompany the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America, whose text had been written by Francis Bellamy. It was also known as the "flag salute" during the period when it was used with the Pledge of Allegiance. Bellamy promoted the salute and it came to be associated with his name. Both the Pledge and its salute originated in 1892. Later, during the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists and Nazi Germans adopted a salute which was very similar, attributed to the Roman salute, a gesture that was popularly believed to have been used in ancient Rome.[1] This resulted in controversy over the use of the Bellamy salute in the United States. It was officially replaced by the hand-over-heart salute when Congress amended the Flag Code on December 22, 1942.
When I was a kid, my mom and I were watching an old movie where it showed kids in a classroom performing this salute while saying the Pledge of Allegiance. When I expressed my puzzlement at this, she confirmed that when she was a small child growing up in San Diego, this is what they did, but it changed during the War.
I don’t see what the issue is. When I see some prominent democrat on TV I often give them a Nazi salute. I think I started doing that with Hillary.
We joke about the left at our Church and imitate them doing the Nazi salute as if they were “worshipping”....or how they would posture themselves in worship. The Pravda media would have a field day at our church and I wouldn’t apologize...
When he waved at his audience, Rep. John Schmitz (R-Calif.) always kept his elbow slightly bent. He explained that he didn’t dare hold his arm straight because “I have a German name and a mustache.”
photo printed here
Yeah, I have noticed, to this day, the use of that particular surname remains quite rare, and from any country.
Remember the guy is England who got in trouble because he trained his pug to give a Nazi salute to the TV.
[Regardless of the origins, the Nazi’s co-opted it and therefor it will probably always have the infamous Nazi connotation, just like they say the symbol used for the swastika was co-opted from old asian cultures where it was a positive symbol, but no one will be taking that back any time soon because of the extreme baggage it now connotes.]
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