Why Elon Musk Is Going ‘Thermonuclear’ | RealClearPolitics
So, the problem for the establishment isn t just that Musk believes in free speech he also practices it, and he has a large megaphone. The manufactured Media Matters scandal had so much impact because it was piled on top of another press campaign against Musk.
It started when someone recently posted on X the following diatribe: Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. I m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don t exactly like them too much.
Musk responded, You have spoken actual truth. The corporate press almost unanimously and immediately declared Musk antisemitic for agreeing with this statement.
The original post was blunt, angry, and lacking nuance. One can argue that associating himself with it, as Musk did, was insensitive, particularly since it echoed the rantings of the unhinged bigot who murdered 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue five years ago.
Not content to merely accuse Musk of a lapse in judgment, however, the legacy press made wild claims that far outstripped what was actually said.
Jewish groups have compared the statement in the original post to a belief known as replacement theory, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that nonwhite immigrants, organized by Jews, intend to replace the white race, The New York Times reported. That idea fueled Robert Bowers, who raged against Jewish people online before killing 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018.
Neither Musk nor the original tweet said anything about a Jewish conspiracy. Imputing the logic of a mass shooter to Musk seems an overreach motivated by malice rather than legitimate concern.
Leaving immigration policy out of it, the sentiment expressed on X is one that politically conservative Jews have been making for years: Liberal Jewish organizations have been supporting left-wing identity politics, causes, and ideology that will eventually be turned against the Jewish community.
Mainstream conservative Jews have said as much. These claims that [Trump and Musk] are anti-Semites is a transparent dodge aimed at diverting attention from the obvious fact that the explosion of anti-Semitism in America, Britain, and other Western countries is taking place primarily on the progressive left and that this explosion of anti-Semitism is being driven by the same alliance of anti-racists that have been trying since 2016 to brand most conservatives and Christians as racists, observes Yoram Hazony, adding, If you actually want to see anti-Semitism defeated in America, Britain, and other Western countries, let s see you direct your fire at the actual source of the danger and violence right now which is two orders of magnitude greater on the Left than it is on the right.