US news channel fires presenter after she calls Musk a Nazi – media
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A Milwaukee CBS affiliate has reportedly dismissed a presenter after she criticized a gesture made by the Trump ally at a rally

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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  • Karkitoo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3821·
    1 day ago

    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)

    • stray@pawb.social
      71·
      17 hours ago

      I’ve never been good at reading stuff like this, so it’s more than plausible I’m just missing it, but I can’t find where the resolution would give anyone the legal power or moral authority to invade another state.

    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
      363·
      1 day ago

      Indeed they used the pretense of “removing Nazis”

      Absolutely huge brained move to vote for the glorification of nazism in response.

    • Azarova [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      531·
      1 day ago

      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.

    • DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      534·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • CethinEnglish
        52·
        16 hours ago

        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.

    • nohaybanda [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      381·
      1 day ago

      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.