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

billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Which comment did Musk make that was antisemitic?

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- ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨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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    ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s not what he was agreeing to, he agreed with a conspiracy theory that claims that Jewish people are actively encouraging the “Great Replacement Theory”. So it’s two conspiracy theories stacked on top of one another.
    
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