Elon Musk faces scrutiny after calling antisemitic X post the ‘absolute truth’
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is facing a wave of backlash after engaging with an antisemitic social media post Wednesday, calling it the “absolute truth.”
The antisemitic post Musk seemed to endorse came in response to a user on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, who expressed concern about rising antisemitism.
“To the cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the internet and posting ‘Hitler was right’: You got something you want to say?” the initial user, who identified themselves as a “Jewish Conservative” in their bio, wrote. “Why dont you say it to our faces.”
Another user responded, suggesting antisemitism was carried out by minorities and claimed the Jews were to blame.
“Okay. 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 read.
“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,” the user continued, adding, “You want truth said to your face, there it is.”
Musk replied: “You have said the actual truth.”
The claim echoes false conspiracy theories that say Jews want to flood the country with minorities.
As The Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg noted, the Pittsburgh Tree of Life shooter in 2018 — the man who carried out the country’s deadliest antisemitic attack — espoused this conspiracy theory in the last words he posted before entering the synagogue on the morning of the shooting.
The shooter wrote The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society “likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. … Screw your optics, I’m going in.”
Musk’s apparent endorsement of this conspiracy theory faced immediate scrutiny online.
CNN’s Jake Tapper responded on X, describing the tech billionaire’s response as “pushing unvarnished anti semitism at a time of rising antisemitism and violence against Jews.”
Other journalists, including Matthew Yglesias, also responded to the post, characterizing it by saying: “America’s richest man chimes in to say that Jews are getting what we deserve for being liberals.”
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Elon Musk faces scrutiny after calling antisemitic X post the "absolute truth."
The antisemitic post that Musk seemed to endorse came in response to a user on X, formerly Twitter, who expressed concern about rising antisemitism.https://t.co/wi7JavGEwb pic.twitter.com/seEzGP4ltG
— The Hill (@thehill) November 16, 2023
Elon Musk pushing unvarnished anti semitism at a time of rising antisemitism and violence against Jews pic.twitter.com/N5bSQxWsr9
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 15, 2023
If you want to see a lot of white nationalists whose Christmas just came early, see the replies here: https://t.co/ncVcB6KAU5
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) November 15, 2023
BREAKING: @IBM has yanked all global advertising from @X after @elonmusk retweeted a blatantly anti-semitic post. 3:30pET. As $TSLA shares tank, @CGasparino on which advertisers beyond the blast zone will pull out, no doubt dunking twitter's valuation below $5B. @ClamanCountdown
— Liz Claman (@LizClaman) November 16, 2023
In retrospect, maybe it was a bad idea for Elon Musk to get high and edgelord randomly on his own multibillion dollar social media platform about the Jews as cultural saboteurs.
— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) November 16, 2023
He's running out of groups to alienate, but he'll work on it, I'm sure. | X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post https://t.co/QGyYDOT3QO
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 17, 2023
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