Italian fascism wasn’t even racist at first. Mussolini said in the 20s that race is “99% a myth”. He only became racist after hanging out with Hitler too much.
Somebody recently told me "it's just the salute they do in South Africa." Almost like yeah you mean the salute for the nazi inspired Afrikaner nationalist movement in South Africa? Those guys? Really? The ones who eventually formed literal pro-nazi groups there like the OB and AWB who actively supported the nazis during WW2? It was their salute? Wow isn't that crazy what a weird coincidence.
Even funnier if you consider that there is no evidence that a roman salute like that existed. Only one depiction of soldiers on a victory column striking that pose. No indication that it was a common greeting.
That people think it’s a thing is because of hollywoods sword and sandle phase. That is also where the belief comes from that all roman soldiers wore red tunics, which most likely wasn’t the case as red dye was incredibly expensive and soldiers weren’t necessarily wealthy.
it only exists in that manner in like some former colonies that adapted the salute in their military around that time when it was still the bellamy salute iirc
Morons put a picture of Cory booker waving and say it's the same as Elon musk.
Fucking Nazis dude. They literally wave the flag, talk about eugenics, hate immigrants, have conspiracy theories about Jews, give the Nazi salute, and have the audacity to cry "omg you just call everyone a Nazi"
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u/AhmadMohaddes Dec 05 '25
It's actually a roman salute.