Many people cited Musk's visit to Auschwitz a year ago as proof he's opposed to antisemitism. Here's an account of someone who was there with him: "Elon did not care.... He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked."
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Ah yes, the autistic spectrum is when a guy self declare he's autistic and cares more about his image for the cameras than about the extermination camps and his freezing child
Can you please stop excuse for him his behavior as being autistic?
It can't be his constant get out of jail card.
If his social network wasn't so antisemitic and he wouldn't do the N*zi salute he was maybe given the benefit of the doubt.
The full context of why he was there, to cover for his, at the time, recent antisemetic behaviour, matters.
Also the later statement mentioned that when talking to him about better protections for Jewish people came to nothing means that he wasn’t just not showing expressions, he truly did not care
One recalls that when the first Harvey Weinstein stories broke, Weinstein’s emergency PR move was to go into sexual addiction rehab—for a week. Problem solved!
Similarly, we can cure a 50 year old man of his pesky lifelong antisemitism with a single field trip. His face radiates love for Jews
I don't think anyone really noticed at the time, but Gidon Lev's social media said something similar shortly after the Musk Auschwitz trip: "It was also an opportunity to talk with Musk about online antisemitism and the dangers of it. Not sure much progress was made on that front"
Also in his conversations with Netanyahu I think the constant mention of antisemitism shows that people in the system in Israel are genuinely concerned about the platforming of neo-Nazis and the mainstreaming of their ideas - exponentially since he took over.
I feel these "educational" trips for problematic individuals don't do anything other than provide photo opportunities and/or kasher antisemites. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
I know there's plenty of bad things to say about musk but using auschwitz as a fking prop has to be literally about the grossest fking thing a person could do
You’re both right: there is literally no difference between using a Nazi death camp as a photo op and abandoning a trans child due to politics. They’re not two distinct activities. He did the one in the same stroke of… brain activity as the other.
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It can't be his constant get out of jail card.
If his social network wasn't so antisemitic and he wouldn't do the N*zi salute he was maybe given the benefit of the doubt.
Also the later statement mentioned that when talking to him about better protections for Jewish people came to nothing means that he wasn’t just not showing expressions, he truly did not care
Similarly, we can cure a 50 year old man of his pesky lifelong antisemitism with a single field trip. His face radiates love for Jews