cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11125375
“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."
Elon Musk said he is “Jewish by association” during a conversation with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro after a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.
Musk, the Tesla CEO and owner of social media platform X, made the comments during a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association. The association had arranged for Musk to make a private visit to Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.1 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust.
“I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism. … Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish,” the billionaire tech mogul said in a video posted on YouTube by Bloomberg Technology. “I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends. I’m like Jewish by association.”
This is high school level cringe.
Worst. I feel like HS kids have better awareness.
I’m bumping this down to middle school.
Why does EVERY racist repeat the “but my best friend/wife is Black/Asian” trope? It’s like they can’t resist
I hope the ghosts follow him around to haunt his antisemitisic ass.
Haven’t the poor souls suffered enough…
This guy is a piece of shit.
“Jewish by association”
Sounds pretty not good. Cultural appropriation with a side of self centeredness.
Also, pretty antisemitic.
Are there better words to clearly label this?
eric cartman
A musky behaviour
When Trey Parker and Matt Stone had a bunch of lily-white Mormon missionaries sing the line “Africans are African but we are Africa”, they were making a joke. This fucking guy, however…
People who got the memo by visiting one of the former concentration camps will not run their mouth like this afterwards.
Yeah, he didn’t even go. He’s just virtue signalling to his new racist backers.
Or he did go and fist pumped every time he thought no one was looking.
Which part of the brain gets satisfied by making things up in this way?
The heart
Fuck this nazi
The world would have been better off if he had been friends with the submarine guy and got imploded by association.
he’s got boot lickers, ass kissers, and ‘yes’-men…
and people paid to put up with his shit…
i doubt he has any actual friends.
What’s that saying? If you don’t know who the asshole in your friend group is, it’s you? Also, the level of antisemitism we were looking for was none. None.
He addresses this in the interview.
This has got to the be the most misleading headline I’ve ever seen. His comments about “almost no antisemitism” had absolutely nothing to do with his visit to Auschwitz.
It’s possible that he sees no antisemitism, given the fact that he’s blind to reality. He’s the modern equivalent of the emperor who had no clothes.
The guy makes my skin crawl…
It’s like he doesn’t read any posts on his own platform. Or even his own posts on the platform.
It’s like he doesn’t read
I’d stop right here.
