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."
33 Comments
mhague@lemmy.world · 136 pts · 2y
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.
Wootz@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 2y
"Dude, I'm not racist! I have so many black friends!"
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org · 13 pts · 2y
Yeah, this would be a dumb thing to say even if wasn't bullshit.
I mean, plenty of people don't encounter antisemitism in their daily life. So what? I don't either, for the most part, because I don't associate with antisemites, but I'm not dumb enough to imply that my social bubble represents the wider world. I am capable of reading, so I do have some idea of what goes on outside my bubble, and I am cognizant of the limits of my personal experience. The conversations I personally have at the dinner table do not have broad social implications.
cabbage@piefed.social · 6 pts · 2y
If you read between the lines he's not saying he's Jewish by association because he has so many Jewish friends; he's saying he's Jewish by association because he's a billionaire.
Scum of the earth.
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world · 97 pts · 2y
CptEnder@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml · 58 pts · 2y
This is high school level cringe.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Worst. I feel like HS kids have better awareness.
I'm bumping this down to middle school.
nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
Why does EVERY racist repeat the "but my best friend/wife is Black/Asian" trope? It's like they can't resist
DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 2y
I hope the ghosts follow him around to haunt his antisemitisic ass.
DessertStorms@kbin.social · 37 pts · 2y
Haven't the poor souls suffered enough..
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y
This guy is a piece of shit.
EvilBit@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y
When Trey Parker and Matt Stone had a bunch of lily-white Mormon missionaries sing the line “Africans are African but we are Africa”, they were making a joke. This fucking guy, however…
MNByChoice@midwest.social · 28 pts · 2y
Sounds pretty not good. Cultural appropriation with a side of self centeredness.
Also, pretty antisemitic.
Are there better words to clearly label this?
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
eric cartman
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
A musky behaviour
tryptaminev@feddit.de · 25 pts · 2y
People who got the memo by visiting one of the former concentration camps will not run their mouth like this afterwards.
aniki@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
Yeah, he didn't even go. He's just virtue signalling to his new racist backers.
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Or he did go and fist pumped every time he thought no one was looking.
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Which part of the brain gets satisfied by making things up in this way?
Honytawk@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
The heart
RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y
What did he “by association” himself after his visit to the US southern border?
Did he stop at a McDonalds along the way and “by association” make himself a minimum wage worker with two jobs and three roommates struggling to get by?
AshMan85@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
Fuck this nazi
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 2y
The world would have been better off if he had been friends with the submarine guy and got imploded by association.
ares35@kbin.social · 14 pts · 2y
he's got boot lickers, ass kissers, and 'yes'-men..
and people paid to put up with his shit..
i doubt he has any actual friends.
bazus1@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Top story tonight: Tiger attempts to change stripes; jungle unimpressed.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
What's that saying? If you don't know who the asshole in your friend group is, it's you? Also, the level of antisemitism we were looking for was none. None.
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
He addresses this in the interview.
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
This has got to the be the most misleading headline I’ve ever seen. His comments about “almost no antisemitism” had absolutely nothing to do with his visit to Auschwitz.
style99@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y
It's possible that he sees no antisemitism, given the fact that he's blind to reality. He's the modern equivalent of the emperor who had no clothes.
DessertStorms@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y
The guy makes my skin crawl..
mateomaui@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 2y
It’s like he doesn’t read any posts on his own platform. Or even his own posts on the platform.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
I'd stop right here.
eran_morad@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y