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US news channel fires presenter after she calls Musk a Nazi

c/worldnews · u/Alsephina@lemmy.ml · 6 points

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A Milwaukee-based CBS affiliate has dismissed one of its weather presenters after she reportedly called Elon Musk a Nazi on social media, over a gesture the tech billionaire made during an inauguration rally for US President Donald Trump.

WDJT-TV (Channel 58), where meteorologist Sam Kuffel had worked since 2019, has confirmed her departure but provided no official explanation in an internal memo to or public comments, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

While the station described the matter as a “personal issue,” Kuffel was reportedly dismissed one day after commenting on Musk’s gesture on her Instagram account.

The TV channel has removed Kuffel’s bio from its website and no longer mentions her in its weather section, but retains articles written by her. Her Instagram account has been set to private, but screenshots purportedly capturing her posts are available online. She has not commented publicly on the incident.

Before her tenure at WDJT-TV, the journalist worked at WAOW-TV (Channel 9) in Wausau, after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a degree in atmospheric science.

The Anti-Defamation League, a US-based pro-Israeli group which monitors anti-Semitism and hate speech, has described Musk’s gesture as “awkward” but did not say it was a Nazi salute. Similarly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is the subject of an International Criminal Court warrant on charges related to genocide, has tweeted in support of the X owner, declaring him to be “a friend of Israel.”

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u/Cethin@lemmy.zip · -2 points

Russia is also full of Nazis, in case you forgot. In fact, most militaries have way too many Nazis, because they like to have an excuse to kill people.

I know where I'm posting this, and it's likely going to be ignored at best, but you don't get to just pretend like it's only *other* people.

Here's some information, but I recommend you also find more on your own, as an excercise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism_in_Russia

Dmitry Valerievich Utkin, co-founder of the Wagner Group. Tattoos, for reference.

There's plenty more to see. Nazis are a problem everywhere, and the authoritarian state of Russia certainly isn't immune.

u/Azarova@hexbear.net · 2 points

>TL:DR the countries who voted against did so to prevent Russia from using this vote as a justification for their invasion of Ukraine. Indeed they used the pretense of "removing Nazis" for their invasion.

This doesn't explain why the West has repeatedly voted against it for over a decade.

u/DoiDoi@hexbear.net · 2 points

Damn that's crazy that the country full of nazis and the fascist military industrial complex masquerading as a country arming them with billions of dollars worth of weapons would be the only two in the world to vote against the glorification of nazism. Totally wild. Oh and they vote against it every time, for years? Wow got to wonder what's up with that.

u/Objection@lemmy.ml · 1 points

Completely removing any credibility from the narrative that you like Nazis by *checks notes* voting against condemning Nazis.

Is that also the US's justification for voting against this resolution every time it comes up, before or since?

u/nohaybanda@hexbear.net · 1 points

to prevent Russia from using this vote as a justification for their invasion of Ukraine.

The UN has, on a few occasions, voted to sanctioned war as lawful and justified. The resolution to condemn Nazism is absolutely not that, and it is pure bullshit to claim it would be functionally the same.

u/Hestia@hexbear.net · 1 points

Hmm wonder who the two are...

I was expecting the US and Isreal but it ended up being Ukraine as the second one.

u/ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 1 points

It's that same fucking map again

![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a7b71443-302c-4c6f-8b15-1a9d0ea5839a.jpeg)

u/Karkitoo@lemmy.ml · -2 points

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/11/09/why-france-and-51-other-countries-voted-against-the-un-resolution-condemning-nazism_6003471_8.html

TL:DR the countries who voted against did so to prevent Russia from using this vote as a justification for their invasion of Ukraine. Indeed they used the pretense of "removing Nazis" for their invasion.

These countries do not condone fascism (or at least officially. I'm looking at you, USA)

u/jack@hexbear.net · 2 points

Weird how libs never have anything but vague accusations of tankie and totalitarian while actual Marxist-Leninist governments have history's most successful poverty eradication campaign

u/jack@hexbear.net · 2 points

Chinese people consider their country to be a functional democracy with massive popular support for its policies and the way it has improved their lives, so "totalitarian" is a lie. Unless that's just what you call it when billionaires get executed for financial crimes?

u/samus12345@lemm.ee · -1 points

I'm afraid a country can't be totalitarian and free at the same time.

u/yogthos@lemmy.ml · 1 points

The whole free world was a bullshit narrative to begin with.

u/samus12345@lemm.ee · 0 points

Is there even a leader of a free world any more? When the US went fascist it was Germany, but they've been having issues too lately.

u/Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net · 2 points

If a fascist man, who nazi salutes at public events and who publicly supports nazi and fascist aligned governments around the world cannot be called a nazi, who can?

u/bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml · 2 points

if i hear one more lib tell me that in USA you can freely say anything without repercussions as an argument...

u/Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 points

UN vote on combating glorification of nazism

![](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/283d4589-67f6-420a-ac39-d39b1e5a4e44.webp)

u/njm1314@lemmy.world · 1 points

Right so calling the guy who endorses and promotes Nazis on his website, who reuses Nazi rhetoric and who uses Nazis symbols on camera is reckless?

u/NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · -1 points

I've never trusted Russia Today to be a fact based news source and more importantly it's been a long time since I've trusted CBS to report on anything that isn't 100% motivated by their own self-interested drive for profit.

TLDR:

Neither news source involved are known to me to be particularly trustworthy.