cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11125375
“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."
Elon Musk said he is “Jewish by association” during a conversation with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro after a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.
Musk, the Tesla CEO and owner of social media platform X, made the comments during a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association. The association had arranged for Musk to make a private visit to Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.1 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust.
“I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism. … Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish,” the billionaire tech mogul said in a video posted on YouTube by Bloomberg Technology. “I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends. I’m like Jewish by association.”
He says there’s no antisemitism in his close circles, as if that matters, but it’s also a lie because he himself backed a “Jews are trying to replace whites” post on Twitter.
Also, he said he was Jewish by association because he has a lot of Jewish friends. Different brand of ridiculousness from what the headline implies.
“Dude, I’m not racist! I have so many black friends!”
People who got the memo by visiting one of the former concentration camps will not run their mouth like this afterwards.
Yeah, he didn’t even go. He’s just virtue signalling to his new racist backers.
It’s like he doesn’t read any posts on his own platform.
This is high school level cringe.
Fuck this nazi
