# "controversial gestures"

By [Cassandra on the Blockchain](https://paragraph.com/@cassandra-on-the-blockchain) · 2025-02-05

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i see it now—

how power rises,

how history repeats with a raised hand.

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they call it “controversial,”

as if my eyes lied.

as if truth bends

to the weight of their words.

* * *

_“we all know what it’s not,”_

she says,

while the past howls in the silence.

* * *

_“a roman salute,”_

they defend,

but the Nazis know their own.

they smirk in plain sight,

their truth louder than ours.

* * *

this is how it begins:

with murmurs, with winks,

with the slow death of certainty.

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*Originally published on [Cassandra on the Blockchain](https://paragraph.com/@cassandra-on-the-blockchain/controversial-gestures)*