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White House blasts Elon Musk’s ‘unacceptable’ antisemitic tweet (thehill.com)

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"Like President Biden said weeks ago memorializing the victims of the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting, the October 7 ‘devastating atrocity has brought to the surface painful memories left by millennia of Antisemitism;’ and under his presidency ‘we will continue to condemn Antisemitism at every turn'," White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement.

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[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it is definitely an extremely bad development for the world--regardless of whether Elon has convictions about this or not--that Elon is basically a white genocide/casual antisemite guy now. he's one of the richest men alive and has a pretty significant amount of social and cultural influence that can't be snuffed out by just ignoring what he's saying. his audience is already in the millions, and he functionally has a captive one in owning Twitter since he can do what he wants with the place.

[–] megopie@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

He’s successfully built a cult of personality, and is slowly consolidating that by alienating those who are willing to question him. We’re just lucky his mask off isn’t all that charismatic or convincing.