Americans used to salute the flag that way.
Maybe it’s time to bring it back and stop letting the Nazis own the thing. Might even want to normalize the swastika, too, while we’re at it because it was perfectly fine until the Nazis abused it.
I mean, heck, are we supposed to ban everything the Nazis said or did? Like expressways, Volkswagens, Mercedes, BMWs, Bayer aspirin, etc?
At the same time I suspect the girl was being disruptive in the way that so many snowflakes are disruptive these days.
“Americans used to salute the flag that way.”
The straight-armed Siegfried salute was invented during the early days of the Third Reich, per Conrad Heiden’s Der Fuhrer, because the rank-and-file spontaneously started doing it as a quicker way to execute the standard salute, no fuss and fidget around the forehead.
Who was banning the Nazi salute. Classmates started doing it. The girl didn’t like it, and told the other kids to stop, and they doubled down. She got upset and yelled at them. She got sent to the Principal, and they did not, even though it was obvious that they were doing it specifically to upset her. Nazi salute normalized. You got a problem with it? Talk to the Principal.