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.”
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.
That’s a bit of bullshit. The ADL said specifically that it was NOT a Nazi salute. Which is the end of the ADL, for me. They’re simply not credible as alleged opponents of anti-Semitism.
smells like a duck quacks like a duck, shits on the floor. must be a duck…
So Netanyahu, leader of a bunch of Nazis, just said he’s a friend to them, case closed.
wasn’t there a quote about control and knowing who you can’t criticize?
Yeah but it was more so talking about how when Democrats are in power it’s okay to criticize both Democrat and republicans, however once Republicans are in power you’re not allowed to criticize Republicans because the power stigma shifts.
something that I’ve started noticing as of late as well. If you try to criticize the Republican Party you’ll be met with resistance, arguments and full shutdown leadin to personal attacks, where if you criticize the Democratic Party, they will still disagree with what you say but they’ll at least listen to you.
Democrats?
You can’t criticize the democrats? Did Fox News shut down?
You can’t criticize the democrats?
Depends on the instance.
Democrats are criticized by democrats all the time. Republicans actively censor all criticism they have control over.
Republicans actively censor all criticism they have control over.
One of the major reasons why I like Lemmy is the multitude of options available for dealing with “Republican” moderators of all political bents.
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?
Garbage article, hiding behind the ADL, afraid to call him a nazi as well. Cowards who don’t call out nazi-ism are playing defense for the nazi’s. To the wall with the lots of them, good on Sam for not bowing to fascist authority.
It’s like when a todler is hiding behind a thin pole and everyone can still see them. The ADL can’t hide anything behind the phrase “awkward gesture.” Someone needs only ask, “What makes it awkward?”
UN vote on combating glorification of nazism
Hmm wonder who the two are…
I was expecting the US and Isreal but it ended up being Ukraine as the second one.
It’s that same fucking map again
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)
Defending nazism to own the russkies, what a great policy.
Indeed they used the pretense of “removing Nazis”
Absolutely huge brained move to vote for the glorification of nazism in response.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Denouncing nazis would embolden our enemies huh
how’s this explain germany, which abstained?
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?
Jewish Voice for Peace
From their perspective, Democrats.
From their perspective? Feminists.
Sure, them too.
if i hear one more lib tell me that in USA you can freely say anything without repercussions as an argument…
They’ll just tell you it’s because Trump is in office that you can’t criticize it now
You know there is a specific type of person who holds 95% percent Nazi views, but is pointing fingers in all directions when an actual Nazi is called out as a Nazi. It is the same type of person that says he hates rapists most of all things, but never admits there is enough proof of sexual misconduct about any actual rapist. That person is the next door m’fer that enables fascism and patriarchy throughout history, and he is complicit to both.
Musk tried to defend his flagrant Nazi pageantry by pointing himself out as a Zionist. Wasn’t literally Hitler a supporter of the creation of Israel (a Jewish state)?
Over this past year of Israel’s full-throated genocide in Palestine, I’ve been surprised to not see it pointed out that (to my understanding) Zionism was a platform of the Nazi party.
Am I wrong? Was Zionism not so explicitly supported by the Nazi party?
There must be a better source for this news than RT.
Would you expect western propaganda outlets to be more truthful on this?
Here’s a Yahoo article on it ig. There’s a bunch more too now.
That’s not “a Yahoo article”. Yahoo! News hosts articles from different sources, and this is from some shitty E-tier website called comingsoon.net.
Probably the best source for this currently is the HuffPost.
Love how he’s been championing Nazis and telling holocaust jokes for years , but the salute is somehow too much for people
And the ADL condones the salute, but condemns the jokes.
The leader of the free world everybody.
The world arbiter of freedom and goodness
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.
Xi Jinping
I’m afraid a country can’t be totalitarian and free at the same time.
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?
And people say hexbear is all tankies!
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
The whole free world was a bullshit narrative to begin with.
Leader of a divied up and purchased world doesn’t have the same ring to it. It has a ring of truth instead
The leader of divided and failing colonizer nations seems more accurate.
Very true.
An actual source in the form of the HuffPost.
How far we have fallen
Weird how they broth agree, thus entirely defeating your propaganda.
How is it propaganda
Your implication is rt is less trustworthy than Huff Post, because of the race of the owner. You yourself proved that’s false.
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Not my post, not my source
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How is it propaganda if your source also agrees
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Race?? Huh??
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