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Father Calvin Robinson was booted from the Anglican Catholic Church's ministry after repeated warnings about his political activities

The Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) has defrocked Father Calvin Robinson after the priest went viral for mimicking a recent gesture by Elon Musk that really, really looked like a Nazi salute.

In a statement released Wednesday, the leadership of the ACC wrote that:

 . . . were made aware of a post made on X showing the end of a speech made by Calvin Robinson at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington, DC. In it, he closed his comments with a gesture that many have interpreted as a pro-Nazi salute.

In his closing remarks at the summit, Robinson quoted Musk, telling the crowd, “My heart goes out to you,” before tapping his right hand to his chest and extending his arm — palm down — in a salute to the crowd. 

Musk was embraced and celebrated by extremists and neo-Nazis when he performed the gesture twice while speaking to Trump supporters following the inauguration last week. Musk’s intention was unclear, but the gesture has been widely likened to a Nazi salute.

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Priest Defrocked After Copying Elon Musk’s Salute At Pro-Life Summit

Rolling Stone ✏ Written by Nikki McCann RamirezRecommended by Christy Walsh.

Father Calvin Robinson was booted from the Anglican Catholic Church's ministry after repeated warnings about his political activities

The Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) has defrocked Father Calvin Robinson after the priest went viral for mimicking a recent gesture by Elon Musk that really, really looked like a Nazi salute.

In a statement released Wednesday, the leadership of the ACC wrote that:

 . . . were made aware of a post made on X showing the end of a speech made by Calvin Robinson at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington, DC. In it, he closed his comments with a gesture that many have interpreted as a pro-Nazi salute.

In his closing remarks at the summit, Robinson quoted Musk, telling the crowd, “My heart goes out to you,” before tapping his right hand to his chest and extending his arm — palm down — in a salute to the crowd. 

Musk was embraced and celebrated by extremists and neo-Nazis when he performed the gesture twice while speaking to Trump supporters following the inauguration last week. Musk’s intention was unclear, but the gesture has been widely likened to a Nazi salute.

Continue reading @ Rolling Stone.

7 comments:

  1. Didn't look like a nazi salute to me.

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    1. It looked like some sort of fascist gesture Steve, probably closer to the Quenelle than the one we associate with the Nazis.

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    2. Dunno Anthony, I find him an odd cat at the best of times but wary of throwing around the nazi/fascist pejorative to freely lest it becomes meaningless. The US is heading straight in to an implosion and he's involved so plenty of other things to label him.

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    3. Steve - to my eye his history and causes he endorses tend to frame the action making it difficult to see it in any other way. If not a fascist gesture what?

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    4. I think his attempts to meddle in the internal politics of other nations is more indicative of being a twat, and this gesture wasn't done with any intent to rile a powerful demographic. Just a feeling. I can see why people think it may be though, I just think he didn't think about what he was doing and how it could be perceived.

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  2. Robinson is closely associated with the excruciating Laurence Fox and his political "party" Reclaim.

    The best account of the salute Musk may or may not have made is this: https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump_musk_salute_gesture_attention.php

    "If Musk’s salute was intentional, it was a risky ploy on these terms—attention-grabbing in the short term, yes, but in a way that diverted focus from Trump, the attention monster in chief, on his day of glory: a dangerous thing to do. It’s possible that Musk caught us in an attention trap in that we’re all now talking about him, but it’s also possible that he caught himself in that trap inadvertently."

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    1. That was a torturous read - I abandoned it about the halfway point.

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