Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is the real answer.

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  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No the real answer is that literally nearly every possible configuration of your hands and movement is offensive and rude to some culture, person or religion.

    It’s fucking damn near impossible to find ANY that are actually safe.

    This has been a problem of public speaking for longer then America has been a country, and longer then the ivy leagues have been a thing.

    Public speaking hand gestures go back literally hundreds of years.

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    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Okay but the reason they all do it today is because they went to the same rich people colleges and courses. The reason those courses teach these things may have historical background, but that’s not what we’re referring to here.

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