Mr. Musk;
It is ironic that you are “deeply offended by ADLs [Anti-defamation League] messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind.”https://www.timescolonist.com/search?search=on&q=musk
What do you mean by this statement?
- Is everything after the words ‘deeply offended by ADLs messaging’ placed there to balance your primary intent to protest what you believe is ‘anti-white’ messaging?
- If so, then your primary intent is to state what you think is anti-white racism by ADL, an organization that counters racism. A piece of evidence that that is your actual intent is your tweet back to person A, ‘that you have said the actual truth’.
- Your response was to person A’s,“accused Jews of hating white people and professing indifference to antisemitism.”
- Let’s look at that statement. First, ‘Jews’ come in all human shapes, sizes, skin-colour, mental capabilities and ethnic backgrounds. So do Jews promote hatred of one such group; white people? Second, it is absurd to state and agree with, ‘that Jews are indifferent to antisemitism’. ‘Antisemitism’ is an invented word from a racisthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Marr in the 19th century and, to the main point, aimed at Jews. So did you intend to state, like person A, that Jews hate themselves? Also then, do all Jews everywhere and at all the times hate white people and everyone else? The implication of your statement implies that Jews hate the rest of humanity, one of those antisemitic tropes used against Jews. These are implications of person A’s statement and your response. So, what are you saying? What is your intent here?
- It is naive for ‘X’s CEO to state that ‘everyone should just STOP being discriminatory’. And, ‘X’s decision to label certain posts as ‘sensitive media’ and that ‘X’ combats antisemitism and discrimination’. That ‘X’ allows antisemitism (and any other hate speech) on the platform either shows that you and ‘X’s CEO are ignorant of what ends up on the platform or turn a blind eye to them. Which is it? Ignorance or hypocrisy?
- Back to your offendedness. Your willingness to allow extraordinary kinds of hate expressed on ‘X’, all of it offensive in a visceral manner to many others, as opposed to your middle class, white, ‘I am offended’, is mere reaction, emotion without substance. How both person A, and yourself, made your statements were not only inarticulate, and clumsy, but were made without any evidence. It is also hypocritical for you to think others should care about your being offended when you don’t care if anyone is offended by what place on ‘X’.
- Spare us the excuse that ‘there is no room on the platform’ to produce nuance about any statement. If that is the case, then ‘X’ is a platform for opinion, not discourse which means all that it accomplishes, except monetization, is voices shouting at each other. Some opinions are banal and harmless, therefore irrelevant; the statements you and person A made are not harmless; banal yes, because they are so full of errors and omissions, it is embarrassing.
- Let’s have it Elon; where is your evidence to show any accuracy in your statement or person A’s statement which, when you referenced, reveals your approval?
- No evidence? Then read a few books, and not just ones that affirm your prejudices. A billionaire could afford a few books, maybe even a few university courses. But I suppose it’s easier to hide behind a wall of money and lawyers than to defend yourself and be accountable for your own words.
- And think a little more carefully about how you have allowed ‘X’ to mutate. And talk to a few experts on communication and hate and pay attention to what is happening outside your silo.
- Billionaires are not experts at everything.