Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts
Elon Musk’s longtime fixation on a white racial majority is intensifying. The richest man in the world posted about how the white race was under threat, made allusions to race science or promoted anti-immigrant conspiracy content on 26 out of 31 days in January, according to the Guardian’s analysis of his social media output. The posts, made on his platform X, reflect a renewed embrace of what extremism experts describe as white supremacist material.
“Whites are a rapidly dying minority,” Musk said on 22 January, a short time before taking the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, while reposting an Irish anti-immigrant influencer’s video about demographic change.
Musk’s posts included him repeatedly claiming white people face systemic discrimination, endorsing the conspiracy that there is an ongoing genocide against white people in countries around the world and promoting a claim that white people would be “slaughtered” by non-whites if they become a demographic minority.
The Tesla board of directors responded by voting to increase his bonus pay by another few hundred million.
They’d add a few zeroes. A few hundred million is less than a 1% increase.
Last I saw, he was angling for a $1 trillion bonus for his next round of grifting.
The targets they set for him to get that bonus seem pretty unachievable to me, though. It would take him having to stop actively turning people sour on the brand, which I can’t see happening any time soon.
That’s what they said about his previous ridiculous bonus package (following that outcry, Musk replaced the board with family and sycophants). Tesla’s valuation is completely divorced from reality and I wouldn’t be shocked if he somehow grifts his way into meeting the targets, at least on paper.
[sigh] Yeah, you’re probably right.