• AgreeableLandscape☭
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      2 years ago

      To be fair, before Hitler stigmatised it, it was a pretty standard gesture. Not saying the queen isn’t a disgusting human being, but this picture probably isn’t actually of her doing the heil.

      • Anarcho-Bolshevik
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        132 years ago

        It could be, as @Aru@lemmygrad.ml said, a ‘Roman’ salute, which was already standard in Fascist Italy. (It’s highly unlikely to be a Bellamy salute: a U.S. phenomenon.)

        I’ve researched this before and it’s highly likely that it was a heil (albeit maybe done ‘just for fun’ judging from the casual setting).

          • Anarcho-Bolshevik
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            92 years ago

            Because it was a casual environment (rather than something more formal like a school or a funeral) and the video likely wasn’t addressed to any Fascist officials either (being a mere home video), so there was no ceremonial obligation to perform one. The possibility that they did it mostly to amuse themselves wouldn’t contradict their profascism, of course.