cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29138283
Summary
Elon Musk rejected accusations of Nazi sympathies in a Fox News interview, calling it āoutrageousā and blaming media propaganda.
Critics point to his straight-arm salute at Trumpās rally, endorsement of a German far-right party, and reinstating white supremacist accounts on X.
His cuts to federal agencies under DOGE have sparked protests and vandalism, including nicknaming Teslas āswasticars.ā
Musk claims heās targeted for character assassination and receives daily death threats. He and Lara Trump compared the attacks to those against Donald Trump, accusing mainstream media of spreading lies.
All he did was a salute that means he supports the Nazi ideals. He was just showing his support for Adolf Hitler, and his policies that led to ethnic cleansing of millions of people. Thatās all this is. Please be sympathetic to the worldās richest man. Obviously, things arenāt going well for him.
Did Fox News then challenge him and show a clip of him throwing up a Sieg Heil Nazi salute at CPAC earlier this year?
Of course they didnāt because Fox News isnāt journalism, but rather a Nazi sympathizing propaganda dissemination fire hose.
Then thereās the whole supporting the AFD. If heās not a Nazi, why is he supporting Nazis?
āYou grew up in South Africa,ā Lara Trump, Trumpās daughter-in-law and Fox News host, said in the new interview. āYou lived during a period of Apartheid. Iām sure youāve seen a lot of horrific things. So to be called a Nazi by people, to be made out to be this monster, that must be really hard for you.ā
Notice how Elonās response doesnāt take the opportunity handed to him on a silver plate to say āApartheid was bad obviouslyā or something like that. As far as I know heās never said anything about the topic, which youād think heād find an opportunity to do at some point among his many public statements. Unless, of course, his opinion on apartheid would be the extremely unpopular one weād suspect, given everything else about his politics and background.
Oh, heās 100% an apartheid supporter. In fact, Iām pretty sure he has had something to do with trumps exposure to South African white nationalists and their āwhite geonicide/land takingā lies and conspiracies. Itās also interesting to see a fox news host acting as if theyāre against apartheid when theyāve been the most significant platformer of these foreign white nationalists and the dissemination of their lies, particularly during the Tucker era.
Heās a nazi in the same way a cyber truck is a truck.
Newer, more dangerous, and destined for failure.
Then donāt do and say nazi stuff from now until you die