Elon Musk is on a racist posting spree once more

[ad_1] Billionaire Elon Musk — who’s lengthy used his X (previously Twitter) platform to stoke anger at immigrants and help antisemitic conspiracy theories — has spent the previous day spreading and praising claims that “White individuals are on the verge of extinction,” Somali immigrants have “no proper to be in America,” and nonprofits who help them are committing “treason and ought to be met with drive.”

Musk quoted or reposted quite a few statements from different accounts, peppering his reposts with approving commentary like “true” and “merely a reality.” A quantity had been associated to the Trump administration’s ongoing investigation of alleged public help program fraud in Minnesota, the place many defendants are a part of Minnesota’s sizable Somali American neighborhood. He reposted commentary a few case involving a Somali immigrant who was convicted earlier this 12 months of sexually assaulting a toddler, in addition to different circumstances through which immigrants dedicated crimes.

The accounts included UK far-right determine Tommy Robinson, who Musk reinstated on X after he was banned from the platform for “hateful conduct” in 2018. “NGO’s in Minnesota are getting paid $2,375 for each Somali immigrant they carry into america,” Robinson’s put up stated, apparently referring to a one-time federal resettlement fund fee meant for “primary wants” like meals and furnishing. “That is treason and ought to be met with drive.” One other repost from an account with 1.2 million followers, Wall Road Apes, asserted that “general Somalis don't have any proper to be in America, particularly North Dakota and Minnesota. They don’t combine into our societies. They carry over their clan mentalities.” (The put up was quoting a video by one other influencer, who stated his truck had been rear-ended by an immigrant.)

Musk, who has 14 (recognized) youngsters, supplied his personal extra substantive assertion about white birthrates. “If present traits proceed, Whites will go from being a small minority of world inhabitants in the present day to just about extinct!” he wrote on December 2nd. He additionally repeated his long-running assertion that immigration is a plot to place Democrats in energy, a perception linked together with his long-running help of the “nice substitute” conspiracy idea that immigrants are being “imported” by liberals (and notably Jews) to displace white People. “The far left imported voters to achieve energy and it labored,” he wrote, quoting a put up that falsely claimed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) “wasn’t even elected by People.”

Musk’s posts additionally emphasised his alignment with President Donald Trump — who has feuded with Musk repeatedly regardless of their shut collaboration up to now 12 months. Musk reposted a December 2nd video of Trump saying “I like Elon rather a lot” and “I feel we get alongside effectively,” in addition to a video of White Home advisor Stephen Miller. Earlier this week, Trump stated that immigrants from Somalia “contribute nothing” and that “I don’t need them in our nation.”

Years in the past, Musk’s statements would doubtless have raised alarm amongst advertisers on the platform he has owned since 2022. IBM and Apple, amongst others, pulled advertisements from the platform in 2023 after Musk praised a far-right poster’s name for white pleasure and agreed with antisemitic, anti-immigrant statements. However Musk responded with a marketing campaign of authorized harassment, and Trump administration officers labored situations discouraging dropping advertisements from platforms like X into a significant advert firm merger proposal. Earlier this 12 months, one advert consulting agency CEO instructed The Wall Road Journal that manufacturers had been “afraid of the authorized and political ramifications” of not promoting on X.