After the Anti Defamation League called the salute Musk did at the inauguration event an “awkward gesture,” the group’s leader now condemns Musk’s follow up tweet explicitly making Nazi puns:
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He’s trying to edge back towards the middle. But still it comes off as if he was fine with the Nazi salute but objects to offensive humor. I have not studied ADL to figure out what they actually stand for but they seem to be conflicted or confused.
Musk is not a genius; he's an arrogant character born into opulence who made a lucky money shot, and the rest is history. The man is intellectually and emotionally deeply immature. He is an insolent, contemptuous man-child. He is dangerous for the whole planet. He must be dealt with accordingly.
Hilariously, grifter Ben Shapiro (appearing on the left) used this trip as proof that Musk could not be an antisemite after Musk Seig Heiled the world.
I didn’t have the ‘ADL’ on my Notsee sympathizers to call out bingo card! Disgusted would be an understatement. How about firing the head of that org? You cannot defend smitler’s signature move using ‘Asperger’s’ . My husbands nephew has Asperger’s . Social awkwardness . Not genocidal adoption!
Greenblatt and the ADL has lost all standing to speak on this — one it had earned through growth from its McCarthyite origins — by turning a blind eye to right-wing extremism in its myopic focus since 10/7.
Maybe this will be a wake up call, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
A guy, hired to identify & address defamation to his community, downplays the action of a man publicly using gestures that defame his community, then is mad that the man continues to defame his community by making tasteless jokes
Lesson: when you feed the wild beast with the bloody teeth, don't expect his bite to stop at the ends of your fingers. He'll keep chewing all the way up your arm.
Why doesn’t he take his own advice and just extend musk some grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath? Surely, musk’s tweets must’ve just been the result of various awkward gestures on his keyboard or phone screen. 🤡
Quoting The Association of German National Jews in 1934 :We have always held the well-being of the German people and the fatherland, to which we feel inextricably linked, above our own well-being. Thus, we greeted the results of January 1933, even though it has brought hardship for us personally.
Doesn't say good things about me that I'm more offended by how bad these puns are than that they're holocaust puns. At least Jimmy Carr is a little funny
Maybe it was the ADL Board that chose to make that vile defense of Musk and now Greenblatt is acting on his own? I’ve been quite disguted w/both as of late, but this is a possible explanation
No, no he does not get the benefit of the doubt at this point. He wasn’t fucking “joking” and even if he was he’s in territory where the joking is just who he is.
Still way too weak and not directly addressing Nazi salute. They are toast in my book, more promoting than preventing anti-semitism. So sad but they’ve been weak for so long, caring more about Israel regardless of the cost to US (and other) Jews.
Self described Nazis have embraced Musk’s gesture as a Nazi salute. If Nazis think you’re a Nazi, you’re probably a Nazi. Musk could easily disavow the gesture if it was unintended. He hasn’t.
Musk is in arrested adolescence and thinks he is being funny.
The ADL should publish online quick reads about what Goebels and Goring did, before their suicides, as well as Hess before his hanging.
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Disturbing to say the very least.
https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/hitler-salute-hand-sign
AND FUCK GREENBLATT, THE SMUG LITTLE STEPHEN MILLER LOOKALIKE.
Save face much? Nice pivot, but too little too late.
Also seems like we were spot on about Musk, though we knew it.
Maybe this will be a wake up call, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
ADL got clowned.
A guy, hired to identify & address defamation to his community, downplays the action of a man publicly using gestures that defame his community, then is mad that the man continues to defame his community by making tasteless jokes
Is that what I just read??
I. DON'T. CARE. HOW. MANY. FOLLOWERS. YOU. HAVE. THERE.
YOU. CAN. REBUILD.
That is one hell of position.
https://bsky.app/profile/teroterotero.bsky.social/post/3lgghpol26k2s
The ADL has a fuzzy line on what they think is or isn’t ok in reference to the years of mass-extermination of many millions of people
You can joke about anything. ANYTHING. But they have to be good jokes.
These were likely written by Grok & are infantile & not funny. That's why they are bad. Not b/c they involve Nazis.
Greenblatt can't watch like half of Mel Brooks' movies.
Wonder why? 🙄
First he defends Musk, now he isn't. And it isn't like there wasn't plenty of evidence prior.
The ADL should publish online quick reads about what Goebels and Goring did, before their suicides, as well as Hess before his hanging.