Hate speech, whether uttered by Musk or merely endorsed by him, is amplified when the world’s richest person posts or comments on it. All we can rely on is what he says and does on his very public, powerful platform. There’s no way to know what’s inside Musk’s heart. But as the owner of X, he has chosen to defend racists’ free speech over the targets’ rights to not be harassed, even going so far as to threaten to sue the ADL for defamation after the organization said antisemitism had surged on X after Musk took over the platform more than a year ago.’ “We condemn this abhorrent promotion of Antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms.” “It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of Antisemitism in American history at any time, let alone one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said Friday in a statement. In response, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote that “it is indisputably dangerous to use one’s influence to validate and promote antisemitic theories.”Įven the White House weighed in on the tweet. X did not respond to requests for comment. He wrote that he does not believe hatred of White people extends “to all Jewish communities.” But then he singled out the Anti-Defamation League, claiming that it promotes racism against White people. Musk, in subsequent posts, expounded on his views. His last social media post said that a Jewish nonprofit dedicated to aiding refugees “likes to bring invaders in that kill our people.” The mass shooting was the deadliest attack against Jews in American history. It’s the same conspiracy echoed in the final written words of Robert Bowers, the convicted murderer of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. The antisemitic conspiracy theory - which posits that Jews want to bring undocumented minority populations into Western countries to reduce White majorities in those nations - is often espoused by hate groups. 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.” ICYMI: Musk was responding to a post Wednesday 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 was the multibillionaire’s most explicit public statement yet endorsing anti-Jewish views. That kind of overt thumbs up to an antisemitic post shocked even some of Musk’s critics, who have long called him out for using racist or otherwise bigoted dog whistles on Twitter, now known as X. Elon Musk has publicly endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory popular among White supremacists: that Jewish communities push “hatred against Whites.”
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