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Elon Musk calls U.S. media and schools ‘racist against whites & Asians’

Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla

and Twitter, accused “the media” and “elite colleges and high schools” of being “racist” against white and Asian people, espousing his views without providing evidence on Sunday.

Musk posted his comments on Twitter, where he has nearly 130 million followers, in response to news that media organizations around the country decided to cut the comic strip “Dilbert” from syndication after its creator, Scott Adams, delivered a racist tirade in a video on his YouTube channel last week.

In the video, Adams discussed a poll conducted by right-leaning Rasmussen Reports that said 26% of Black respondents disagreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white.” The phrase referenced in their poll has been labeled a “hate slogan” by the Anti-Defamation League. In his video, Adams called Black people who rejected that phrase as a “hate group.”

Adams also said that he personally chose to live in a community where few or no Black people lived, and then advised his white viewers to “get the hell away from Black people,” saying he didn’t “want to have anything to do with them.”

Adams’ video was published during Black History Month in the U.S., which was established in 1976 by President Gerald Ford as a period during which to honor the struggles and contributions of Black Americans.

Among the news outlets that dropped “Dilbert” were the Los Angeles Times, The Oregonian, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Washington Post and USA Today.
Musk’s track record

Brian Levin, a civil rights attorney and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University said, in response to Musk’s tweets:

“Systemic racism requires not only widespread bigotry to be held within a group but also a structural component that allows discrimination and oppression to be imposed on a minority because of an advantage of access and power. A white billionaire from South Africa who recently lost a high profile racial discrimination case may not be in the best position to offer counsel.”

As CNBC previously reported, a San Francisco federal court ruled that Tesla must pay a former worker, Owen Diaz, for damages after he endured a hostile work environment and racist abuse at the company’s factory where he previously worked as an elevator operator.

Additionally, the EEOC, a federal agency responsible for enforcing civil rights laws against workplace discrimination, has issued a cause finding against Tesla, according to a financial filing from the company last year.

Prior to the EEOC finding, the California Civil Rights Department, formerly known as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, sued Tesla after a three-year investigation, alleging widespread racist discrimination at Tesla factories and facilities across the state.

The CRD alleged that Tesla has kept Black workers in lower-level roles at the company even when they have the skills and experience to be promoted to more senior roles; assigned Black workers more demanding, dangerous and dirty work in their facilities; and retaliated against Black workers who complained formally about what they endured, including racist slurs used by managers.

Tesla called the CRD’s lawsuit “misguided,” and later countersued the agency.
The data on racism

Musk made his claims about “the media” and some higher educational institutions and high schools in the U.S. without presenting any evidence.

Specifically, he wrote, “The media is racist.” He then added, “For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist against whites & Asians. Same thing happened with elite colleges & high schools in America. Maybe they can try not being racist.”

According to Pew Research, newsroom employees are much more likely to be white (and male) than U.S. workers overall. In film and TV, according to McKinsey research, “Black talent is underrepresented across the industry, particularly off-screen.” Less than 6% of the writers, directors and producers of U.S.-produced films are Black, McKinsey found.

According to the most recently available U.S. Census Bureau data, about 29% of non-Hispanic white people in the U.S. have attained a bachelor’s degree or higher levels of education, about 18.4% of Black people in the U.S. have attained that level of education, and about 51.3% of Asian people have done so.

Despite Asian American educational attainment, Asians are underrepresented in leadership roles in U.S. academic libraries and higher education, according to research by Mihoko Hosoi, published in the Journal of Library Administration in 2022.

Musk also replied to one Twitter account that said unarmed white people affected by police violence only get a fraction of the media attention paid to Black people injured or killed by police. Musk claimed that the media coverage is “Very disproportionate to promote a false narrative.”

According to research by Brookings Institute, “Black people are 3.5 times more likely than white people to be killed by police when Blacks are not attacking or do not have a weapon,” and “Black teenagers are 21 times more likely than white teenagers to be killed by police.”
Hate speech on Twitter

Imran Ahmed, the CEO and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, said in response to Musk’s tweets, “Elon Musk seeks to portray himself as some weird, bizarro champion of anti-racism whereas in reality when he took over Twitter, he made a series of disturbing decisions to change its rules to welcome racist hate back onto the platform and, as our research has shown, to profit from the controversy and attention hate generates.”

Ahmed also called on remaining advertisers to reevaluate whether they want to spend their budgets on Twitter, given Musk’s beliefs and changes he has made to the Twitter platform.

Since leading a $44 billion leveraged buyout of Twitter late last year and appointing himself “Chief Twit,” or CEO, Musk has stirred controversy and lost money at the social media business.

Under Musk’s watch, Twitter has restored the accounts of some previously banned and divisive figures, including neo-Nazi website founder Andrew Anglin. His moves led to an unprecedented rise in hate speech on the platform, the Center for Countering Digital Hate found, and drew an immediate outcry from civil rights leaders.

Hundreds of Twitter’s top advertisers have since halted or pulled back on ad spending there. One firm estimated that Twitter’s ad revenue declined as much as 70% in December from the previous year, Reuters reported. Musk acknowledged in a November tweet that the company suffered a “massive drop in revenue” after advertisers paused spending on the social media platform.

Musk and representatives at Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/26/elo...hools-racist-against-whites-asians-.html

Lol … Elon. Just shut up already and go back to doing something useful in society. Instead of dividing US.

Another "Woe is me" right winger.

Elon is a right-winger now. Hahahaa

I don't disagree.

Aside from the obvious statement by Adams, the “tell” is earlier in the podcast where he stated that he “identifies as Black”.

A provocateur wannabe, trying, and failing at following Rush’s footsteps…

Yes.. He is and has been for a long long time..

You have no clue what you are talking about.

musk has said… "To be clear, I support the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democratic Party!" He’s socially liberal and financially conservative. In other words an eccentric pompous ass.

Some people haven't been paying attention to the metamorphosis.

Did you seriously miss his chameleon routine? It started on the Joe Rogan show or around that time. Elon drank some of the Trumpian kool-aid and lost his damn mind. I know it wasn't the pot unless he's some kind of alien.

That Trumpian kool-aid must have been a little watered down as he voted for Clinton and Biden each time Trump ran.

Clearly, I know a hell of a lot more than you do.

I don't think he did vote for Biden. He seems to have gone off the rails during Trump's presidency.

He did.

This is the conclusion people come to when they believe the words of people over their deeds.

Oh, the irony.

The jokes just keep writing themselves.

Yes they do. After all you are still posting.

Perhaps Elon should stop diddling around with Twitter and save some lives.

WALNUT CREEK -- A Tesla that crashed into a fire truck on northbound I-680 in February, killing the driver and injuring a passenger as well as four firefighters was operating on an automated driving system.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday it has dispatched a special crash investigation team to look into the Feb. 18 crash.

The probe is part of a larger investigation by the agency into Teslas on Autopilot repeatedly crashing into parked emergency vehicles that are tending to other crashes.

Yep they sure do… “Oh the irony” is just another whataboutism you Goper’s are always calling out others on.

Tesla shouldn't have crashed if the driver had both hands on the wheel.

What, exactly, do you believe Elon would have done differently? Do you think he is actually writing code? Training AI? Seriously, what do you think, and be specific, do you think he would have done to change this?

Some people can't seem to figure out that what people post on a message board are words, not deeds. But you'll have that from time to time.

He’s the CEO for gods sake and he’s dicking around with twitter while calling out the US safety regulators. He needs to lead Tesla’s recalls and stop dicking around with twitter with all the the other fools.

j/c:

Israel accuses Elon Musk of stoking antisemitism on Twitter after anti-Soros remark

‘The Jews’ trends on platform after billionaire says Jewish philanthropist ‘hates humanity’; Foreign Ministry pans company for taking no action

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday accused Twitter owner Elon Musk of driving up antisemitic rhetoric on his social media platform in the wake of a remark he made against Jewish philanthropist George Soros.

Musk tweeted a day earlier that Soros “hates humanity,” and wrote that the billionaire and progressive megadonor “reminds me of Magneto,” a comic book villain who features in Marvel’s X-Men series.

“The phrase ‘The Jews’ spiked today on the list of topics trending on Twitter following a tweet with antisemitic overtones by none other than the owner and CEO of the social network, Elon Musk,” the Foreign Ministry tweeted on its official account.

It said that Musk’s tweet “immediately led to antisemitic conspiracy theories on Twitter.”

Separately, the ministry’s Director of Digital Diplomacy David Saranga tweeted a screenshot of Twitter trending numbers showing that, on Tuesday morning, there were 27,900 recent tweets using the phrase “The Jews.”

Tweets were “filled with antisemitic conspiracies and hate speech targeting Jews around the world,” Saranga wrote. “Unfortunately Twitter does nothing to address this problem.”

Saranga then cited Martin Niemöller, the German theologian who opposed the Nazi regime and was imprisoned in concentration camps.

“‘First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me,'” Saranga quoted.

“Niemöller’s words serve as an indictment of passivity and indifference during the Holocaust,” Saranga wrote and noted that the quote is written on the wall of the Holocaust Museum in Washington.



The attacks on Soros come as Twitter has faced criticism over its lax hate speech policies in the months since Musk, one of the world’s richest people, bought the platform last year. Soros, the billionaire and progressive megadonor, is at the center of multiple antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Like Soros, the character of Magneto is a Holocaust survivor. Brian Krassenstein, a liberal Jewish journalist, noted that parallel in a reply to Musk’s tweet, writing that “Magneto’s experiences during the Holocaust as a survivor shaped his perspective as well as his depth and empathy,” and that Soros “gets attacked nonstop for his good intentions which some Americans think are bad merely because they disagree with [his] political affiliations.”

CEO of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt called Musk’s remark “dangerous” and encouraging to anti-Jewish extremists.

“Soros often is held up by the far-right, using antisemitic tropes, as the source of the world’s problems,” Greenblatt tweeted. “To see Elon Musk, regardless of his intent, feed this segment — comparing him to a Jewish supervillain, claiming Soros ‘hates humanity’ — is not just distressing, it’s dangerous: it will embolden extremists who already contrive anti-Jewish conspiracies and have tried to attack Soros and Jewish communities as a result.

While Musk has railed against progressive policies, what prompted his attack on Soros isn’t clear. On the same day as the tweets, however, Soros’s family investment office cashed out its investment in Tesla, Musk’s electric car company.

Soros, 92, has long been a target of conservatives for backing progressive causes and politicians in the United States and worldwide. In the last decade or so, some of the attacks have echoed antisemitic conspiracy theories, depicting Soros as satanic, accusing him of seeking world control and falsely accusing him of helping perpetrate the Holocaust rather than surviving it as a child.

Musk responded, “You assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.”

CEO of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt called Musk’s remark “dangerous” and encouraging to anti-Jewish extremists.

These conspiracy theories accelerated after the 2016 election of Donald Trump, who made Soros a focus of his final campaign ad that year and who has relentlessly portrayed Soros as a villain as he runs for the 2024 election.

Musk, who calls himself a free speech absolutist, has reinstated the Twitter accounts of right-wing extremists who had previously been banned, a move that alarmed Jewish anti-bigotry groups. He suspended some of the extremists again after they returned to posting hateful tweets. Extremists have lauded him and he has returned the affection, encouraging some of their theories.

In December, Musk disbanded an advisory group focused on “Trust and Safety” on Twitter, and in March, a study by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue think tank found that antisemitism more than doubled on the platform in the months since Musk took it over.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israe...isemitism-on-twitter-after-soros-remark/

Sounds like Elon plans to give Tucker a run for his money.

Yes, the government of Israel know nothing about how anti sematism works.

I never knew Elon was a fascist nazi pig with no moral compass. But the secrets out now.

I never knew you knew my name was Elon

Interesting little clip, to say the least.



Disregard the posters' comments...that's not why I posted and I have no idea if the episode was deleted. But the commentary of Soros and tone is something else.

Almost posted that last night, but I figured people would set their hair on fire.

It's crazy how someone is labeled an antisemite because he calls someone evil -- who happens to be Jewish. But that very Jew said he didn't mind rounding up other Jews while posing as someone he wasn't. Basically, with the same demeanor that makes a Fentanyl dealer feel comfortable with his actions "if it wasn't me it would be someone else".

What's way crazier is this: Someone decides Elon's tweet is antisemitic, yells "fire", causes much more antisemitic talk than if that megaphone was left alone... blames the person who never said anything antisemitic in the first place.

What's craziest: as evidence by some of the posts here; some things can be labeled as hate speech by the thinnest of correlations. Yet the resulting hate speech is perfectly acceptable -- even championed by those participating -- as long as the original 'instigator' as any two of these things: rich, white, republican.


As the wheel goes round...

Better to be called clown than a fascist Fritz. I get that you can’t see that.