A headline from the blogsite “David Harris Jr.” claimed that “David Hogg [was] mocked for giving Nazi/Socialist salute to end march.”
Roseanne Barr, along with hundreds of tweeters, also believed Hogg mirrored the Hitlerian salute.
ICYMI Roseanne replied to a David Hogg conspiracy theorist who tagged the actual boy, but then ABC made her delete it. Don’t worry, here’s a screenshot: pic.twitter.com/yftDrSdq6b
— Adam Sass (@TheAdamSass) March 27, 2018
At the end of his speech for the “March for Our Lives” event last month, Hogg raised his fist in the air after declaring “We will change the world!” The last time TWS Fact Check saw Hitler’s salute it didn’t resemble what Hogg threw up (open palm vs Hogg’s closed fist kind of gives it away). When Hitler used his fist as a symbol he would bend his elbow and turn the fist inward.
A raised fist has represented a panoply of causes, factions, and movements throughout history. Let’s go through some of them:
* Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement
* Republicans in the Spanish Civil War
* And on, and on, and on
The short answer is no, tweets and articles claiming that Hogg threw up the Nazi salute are blatantly incorrect.
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