The White House blasted Elon Musk for selling “antisemitic and racist hate” after the Tesla CEO and X proprietor endorsed a social media publish accusing Jewish individuals of pushing “hatred against whites.”
“We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms, which runs against our core values as Americans. We all have a responsibility to bring people together against hate, and an obligation to speak out against anyone who attacks the dignity of their fellow Americans and compromises the safety of our communities,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates mentioned in an announcement on Friday.
An X consumer posted the antisemitic feedback on Wednesday, and Mr. Musk shortly joined the dialog to agree with the poster.
“To the cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the internet and posting ‘Hitler was right’: You got something you want to say?”
Another consumer responded, ‘Okay. Jewish [people] have been pushing the precise form of dialectical hatred in opposition to whites that they declare to need individuals to cease utilizing in opposition to them,” the poster wrote.
“You have said the actual truth,” Mr. Musk responded.
Mr. Bates, the White House spokesman, mentioned of Mr. Musk that it was “unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of antisemitism in American history at any time.”
The authentic publish, from an account with fewer than 5,000 followers, has been seen greater than 1.1 million instances since Mr. Musk replied.
In the identical X thread, Mr. Musk additionally criticized the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy group, and different teams that he claims are pushing “de facto white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind.”
In one other publish, Mr. Musk mentioned the ADL “unjustly attacks the majority of the West” as a result of they can not criticize “minority groups who are their primary threat.”
X didn’t reply to a request for remark from The Washington Times.
Mr. Bates famous the proximity of Mr. Musk‘s publish to the lethal terrorist assaults in Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7, which has been described because the “deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
“We all have a responsibility to bring people together against hate, and an obligation to speak out against anyone who attacks the dignity of their fellow Americans and compromises the safety of our communities,” Mr. Bates mentioned.
