Musk’s racism mirrors Trump’s
Elon Musk is a racist. At this point, that shouldn’t surprise anyone.
I, for one, have written many commentaries denouncing his public tweets. Those tweets often show his true colors.
Simply put, Musk is becoming to business what Donald Trump is to politics: a temperamental, incompetent, petty, spiteful, cowardly, racist, narcissistic, homophobic, antisemitic, bullying buffoon. In other words, they’re two sides of the same coin.
That’s why it baffles me that so many respectable people, like President Joe Biden, are still using X/Twitter. After all, Musk has turned it into such a hellscape of hate that advertisers are treating his platform like the plague.
He illustrated why by endorsing a tweet this week, which claims that Black students at HBCUs shouldn’t become pilots because they have lower IQs.
‘It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE,’ he tweeted, intentionally mixing up the letters of the acronym for ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion.’
Civil rights groups were understandably horrified at the billionaire’s racist comments.
(Yahoo News, January 13, 2024)
Billionaire superheroes vs billionaire villains
Bill Ackman dismissed Claudine Gay, the first Black president of Harvard, as a DEI hire. He then mounted a racist crusade to oust her. Ackman and Musk demonstrate that being a billionaire means doing or saying anything without giving a damn what any thinks or says.
Most billionaires, like Bill Gates and McKenzie Scott (Bezos), aim to create a philanthropic legacy. However, Ackman and Musk seem to relish playing the Joker-like villains to these philanthropic heroes.
As the links above indicate, I’ve said all I care to about these two. But it’s noteworthy that Musk hails from South Africa. Because he keeps showing that you can take the boy out of apartheid, but you can’t take apartheid out of the boy.
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