I was on night-shift last night, so did not see the Olympics Opening Ceremony, excepting a few little snippets here and there. On coming home this morning I find that the internet is ablaze with comment and outrage because a man apparently gave a Nazi Salute as the German Olympians entered the arena. Admittedly, it does not look great, but I do not think this is a Nazi salute at all. The Nazi salute is a straight, right arm gesture. This man was waving his left arm about, and not his right. A quick search on Google images for ‘nazi salute’ reveals a rather different posture.
Interestingly, what has not been talked about so much is a tweet by Piers Morgan which read “We need to be an Empire again – seriously. #ProudOfBritain“. Some might argue that the British Empire was at least the equal of the Nazi regime in terms of terror, racism, and murderous intent. But there is no outcry when a prominent Brit makes a call for a return to the good old days, when Britain claimed the “white man’s burden” in dealing with, and controlling the ‘inferior’ nations of the world.
Hypocrites? Us? Nah, surely not….
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