{"id":16733,"date":"2020-07-01T00:12:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T07:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16733"},"modified":"2020-07-01T00:12:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T07:12:30","slug":"totalitarian-salutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/07\/01\/totalitarian-salutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Totalitarian Salutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16734\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Ear1qSqWkAADVov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Just as \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d has become a woke shibboleth, the raised fist salute of defiance, with origins of the terroristic Wobblies and other hard Left ideologies, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/culture\/history\/item\/21635-the-communist-pedigree-of-the-clenched-fist-salute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Communism<\/a>, has become the signifier of support for totalitarianism, much as the fascist hand salute was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">Do note how <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Juneteenth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Juneteenth<\/a> and related hashtags automatically add a black &quot;power fist&quot;, which is a hard-Left symbol first introduced by the wobblies, to the hashtag as it is displayed.<\/p>\n<p>This is a clear attempt to inflate support for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlackLivesMatter<\/a>, et al.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4A20ZbyGSr\">https:\/\/t.co\/4A20ZbyGSr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr. Hat, Warlord of the Lidsville Autonomous Zone (@ThePoliticalHat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePoliticalHat\/status\/1274138287595089920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ah, but one might say that one was a fist of defiance, while the other in an open handed salute of support, right? Wrong: Both are a salute of support of what was considered the \u201ccorrect\u201d means and ends, that stand in defiance of the \u201cinstitutionally privileged\u201d. Both the open handed salute and the closed fist crushing opposition has been used by <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/06\/23\/communism-and-fascism-twin-whelps-from-same-hegelian-dialectical-litter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Communists\/Assorted Hard Leftists <em>and<\/em> National Socialists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9253\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nazi_soviet_propaganda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nazi_soviet_propaganda.jpg 331w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nazi_soviet_propaganda-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16735\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/clenched-fist-on-snake-nazi-blacklivesmatter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"595\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In both cases, it isn\u2019t a question of opposing oppression, but of who gets to be the oppressor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/clenched-fist-on-snake-nazi-blacklivesmatter-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/clenched-fist-on-snake-nazi-blacklivesmatter-small.jpg 528w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/clenched-fist-on-snake-nazi-blacklivesmatter-small-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Totalitarian Salutes\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"'Black Lives Matter' has become a woke shibboleth, the raised fist salute of defiance, with origins of the terroristic Wobblies and other hard Left ideologies, like Communism, has become the signifier of support for totalitarianism, much as the fascist hand salute was.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/clenched-fist-on-snake-nazi-blacklivesmatter-small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Just as \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d has become a woke shibboleth, the raised fist salute of defiance, with origins of the terroristic Wobblies and other hard Left ideologies, like Communism, has become the signifier of support for totalitarianism, much as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/07\/01\/totalitarian-salutes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,20,48],"class_list":["post-16733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-occupy","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16738,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions\/16738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}