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Elon Musk curses out advertisers who left X over antisemitic content

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From the article: Musk added that he himself arguably had done more for the environment, at Tesla, than anyone in the world, based on Tesla's massive sales of electric vehicles. "It would be fair to say, therefore, as a leader of the company, I've done more for the environment than everyone -- any single human on Earth."

He has previously claimed he knew 'more about manufacturing than anybody alive'. In this interview, he calls upon planet Earth (to be his judge?). None of these statements would be expected to be uttered in earnest from a grown up.

Actual antisemitic content or alleged antisemitic content? We do a disservice to those who are attacked by real antisemites to blame mere stupidity for being something more malicious.

Given that he apologized for the antisemitic content, it's not alleged behavior.

The original tweet did not mention any specific organization but the "Jewish community" writ large. The original tweet calls out this community for "dialectical hatred against whites" as a monolith, to which Musk commented that this is the "actual truth."

If <given racial group> is reduced to a monolithic stereotype and then accused of latent hate against another <given racial group>, the content is likely racist. If, in addition to the above, the comment then insinuates the monolithic group is guilty of an international conspiracy... then it's also a good bet that the racist comment is also anti-Semitic.

This episode makes Mr. Musk's bias crystal clear.

Not "Jewish community". "Jewish communitIES". The first wording means all jews. The second leaves reasonable doubt that the author meant all jews, and not just some of them.

Please honestly ask yourself why are you so morally convicted about something you did not quote accurately. I do not imply your bad faith, but something's obviously gone wrong here worth thinking about. Perhaps your anger was actually masterfully manufactured.

> Actual antisemitic content or alleged antisemitic

Actual antisemitic content. I can’t say Musk is an anti-Semite. But he repeatedly—and increasingly—promotes and now even says antisemitic things.

I have yet to see him sincerely apologise for preaching an anti-Semitic take on replacement theory as “the truth.” He apologised for being unclear, which just raises the question what he meant by that tweet.

So wait what's your logic here -- if a person promotes racist content but it's totally a whoopsie and they didn't mean it, the content is no longer racist and we have to prepend it with "alleged" like it's legally defined?

It’s stupid to propagate messaging regardless of personal intent as others are of other intent which can be triggered by someone else just being stupid.

You’re engaged in vacuous min/max of categories and harm. Who cares about engaging. At the root of it you’re one meat suit whose existence doesn’t matter.

^ keep telling that to the “wrong” person and they might just do something about despite it being a disposable comment on a backwater social media forum

For the ivy leagues universities: Tolerating a little bit of antisemitism demonstrations makes up for tolerating some over representation in admission acceptance rates (Maybe they hope ?).

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