[1rudeboy]

I get it, but it still seems a little harsh.

[dfwgator]

But our athletes are allowed to flash gang signs.

[PGR88]

Banned for life?

Their extreme over-reaction shows something about the fears of their elites.

[BenLurkin]

It takes a special kind of stupid to admire Nazis.

Especially in a place like Greece where the Nazis murderd thousands of innocent people.

[Kirkwood]

Seems pretty harsh to me too since it lasted all of about 1 second, and then he got swamped by his team.

[Caipirabob]

Good to see a national socialist get p@wned. It hasn’t happened nearly enough of late. These lefty totalitarians deserve any beating they get 10 times over and more.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If you wanted to turn the guy into a full-fledged radical Nazi, this is the way to do it.

[MetaThought]

You gotta look at it in the context of Golden Dawn, the up-and-coming Greek fascist party.

[Pharmboy]

It struck me that way too; EXCEPT if this guy had done or said anything in public previously that would ally him with the Nazis. If not, too harsh and he should be given the benefit of the doubt.

[ApplegateRanch]

Perhaps he should have not used it, but it has a much deeper history that, like the swastika, we have allowed to be utterly stigmatized by those who co-opted it, rather than stigmatizing how it is used, by whom. Like the "zero tolerance" to guns in schools that gets kids suspended or expelled for funny shaped Pop-Tarts, or even disarming & holding a thug holding a real gun to another student's head until police arrive, that would require some use of brain power & (horrors!) discrimination discernment.

Not only does it go back to Ancient Rome, and probably far beyond into the mists of time; but it even has a long (mostly forgotten) history of use in the Good Old U.S. of A.

American students pledging to the flag in a former form of the salute, specifically the Bellamy salute, 1941

The Bellamy salute is the salute described by Francis Bellamy to accompany the American Pledge of Allegiance, which he had authored. During the period when it was used with the Pledge of Allegiance, it was sometimes known as the "flag salute". During the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists and Nazis adopted salutes which were similar in form, resulting in controversy over the use of the Bellamy salute in the United States. It was officially replaced by the hand-over-heart salute when Congress amended the Flag Code on December 22, 1942.

The Bellamy salute was first demonstrated on October 12, 1892 according to Bellamy's published instructions for the "National School Celebration of Columbus Day":

At a signal from the Principal the pupils, in ordered ranks, hands to the side, face the Flag. Another signal is given; every pupil gives the flag the military salute -- right hand lifted, palm downward, to a line with the forehead and close to it. Standing thus, all repeat together, slowly, “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands; one Nation indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.” At the words, “to my Flag,” the right hand is extended gracefully, palm upward, toward the Flag, and remains in this gesture till the end of the affirmation; whereupon all hands immediately drop to the side.
— From The Youth’s Companion, 65 (1892): 446–447.

[wonkowasright]

Adolph appropriated a ancient rite of blessing, turned it toward himself. That method of holding the arm toward him was an ancient Christian form of blessing.

Hitler should not be given the ability to still claim credit for it.

How do we know the lad wasn’t using that blessing which is still used in churches to this day.