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Comment Re: One step from most hated (Score 1) 175

Great, now you are arguing in semantics. So tell me:
- What was the Roman salute?
- What was Roman about it?
- Was it different for Romans and non-Romans living in Constantinople/Rome?

This is the problem with dealing with disingenuous people. You know very well what is colloquially known as "Roman salute". You know very well that it was invented by idiots and used by Nazis who to shepherd idiots. But you want to argue that Roman is a valid adjective for whatever salute happened thousands of years ago so that the Nazis can hide in their make-shift cocoon of being technically correct.

Comment Re: One step from most hated (Score 1) 175

According to an apocryphal legend, the fascist gesture was based on a customary greeting which was claimed to have been used in ancient Rome.[2] However, no Roman text describes such a gesture, and the Roman works of art that display salutational gestures bear little resemblance to the modern "Roman" salute.[2]

Google-foo for reference. I would assume people would do at least that much before commenting. But it seems reddit has leaked to Slashdot while older generation dies off.

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