Elon Musk Tries to Backpedal After Agreeing With Anti-Semitic Tweet – and Fails Spectacularly

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Elon Musk, man. This guy.

On Wednesday, the billionaire owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, agreed with a blatantly anti-Semitic post on the platform. And no, this wasn’t some faux “anti-Semitism” that criticized Israel’s policies. No, this was actual “unvarnished anti-Semitism,” as CNN’s Jake Tapper called it.

Here’s the initial tweet from a paid blue checkmark with a couple of thousand followers:

Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.

I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much. You want truth said to your face, there it is.

Here is Musk’s reply, which remains up as of this writing:

You have said the actual truth

No, I did not make that up:

That’s right. The guy who owns one of the most influential social media sites in the world publicly agreed with a tweet declaring that Jews push “hatred against whites” while also embracing replacement theory.

Since buying Twitter last year and renaming it X, advertisers have left the platform in droves. This latest thing? It will not help. At this rate, the only advertisers left will be crypto scams and the Hitler Store.

Musk then re-upped his attacks on the Anti-Defamation League.

“The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel,” he replied to his tweet that agreed with the original anti-Semitic post. “This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat. It is not right and needs to stop.”

After receiving predictable and completely justified backlash, Musk made it known that he opposes the mass killing of Jews.

Musk claimed that “‘decolonization’ necessarily implies a Jewish genocide, thus it is unacceptable to any reasonable person.”

Whether “decolonization” would actually entail genocide in this context doesn’t seem to be the point of the exchange. Rather, it’s a more natural means for Musk to say he’s anti-genocide – as opposed to, you know, a standalone tweet saying, “By the way, I just want to go on the record and say, I oppose a Holocaust sequel.”

When one user objected that not all “Jewish communities” push hatred of White people, Musk backtracked somewhat.

However, four minutes later, he went after the ADL again by claiming the organization advocates for “anti-white” and “anti-Asian racism.”

If there’s a silver lining here, it’s that there’s a chuckle or two to be shared at the expense of X CEO Linda Yaccarino, who was hired ostensibly to assuage advertisers’ fears that the platform is a toxic cesspool of bigotry.

So that’s going well.

Beyond that, this is all very ugly.

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.