Comment on Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself”

Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “It’s not me being an antisemitic transphobic bigot that’s killing Twitter; it’s all the companies who don’t want their brands next to my antisemitic transphobic comments!”

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  • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which comment did Musk make that was antisemitic?

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    • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Musk was responding to a post that said Jewish communities “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” The post also referenced “hordes of minorities” flooding Western countries, a popular antisemitic conspiracy theory.

      It’s the kind of post you can find easily on X these days, and likely would have gone unnoticed had Musk, with more than 160 million followers, not re-shared the post with the comment: “You have said the actual truth.”

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      • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Right, but it is actually true that anti-semitic views are more prevalent among racial minorities (in the US) than among whites. No less a figure than Matt Yglesias had made the exact same point the day prior. How is it an “anti-semitic trope” to agree that that’s true?

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• PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh shit, is that how capitalism works? I never thought the money leopards would eat my face!

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• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Smartest thing he’s ever said.

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