Title : "After buying Twitter, Elon Musk enthusiastically welcomed both Trump and Ye back to the platform, and has been tiptoing up to the edge of antisemitism himself."
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"After buying Twitter, Elon Musk enthusiastically welcomed both Trump and Ye back to the platform, and has been tiptoing up to the edge of antisemitism himself."
"On Sunday, he tweeted that Alexander Vindman, the Jewish retired Army officer who testified about Trump’s attempt to extort Ukraine’s president, is both 'puppet & puppeteer,' echoing an old antisemitic trope about Jews pulling the strings behind world events. On Monday, Musk tweeted an image of the alt-right symbol Pepe the Frog. For most of my adult life, antisemites — with exceptions like Pat Buchanan and Mel Gibson — have lacked status in America. The most virulent antisemites tended to hate Jews from below, blaming them for their own failures and disappointments. Now, however, anti-Jewish bigotry, or at least tacit approval of anti-Jewish bigotry, is coming from people with serious power: the leader of a major political party, a famous pop star, and the world’s richest man."
Writes Michelle Goldberg, in "Antisemitism’s March Into the Mainstream" (NYT).
Why did Musk tweet this image of Pepe the Frog?
I found this quote at Deadline, from ADL Vice President, Center on Extremism Oren Segal:
“There are so many different variations of the Pepe the Frog meme…and while this one is not overtly hateful on its own — and context is always key — the fact that he posted it at this time of increasing hate on his platform is an indication that he’s not really serious about addressing this issue... Musk strikes me as someone who is very much familiar with meme culture online... I don’t think it’s unreasonable for people to assume he would know...."
But what was he supposed to know? Segal — who's the expert consulted on the image — said "this one is not overtly hateful on its own."
I agree that it's unsettling. To me — and maybe to a lot of people — Musk tweeting that image seems to say, I'm ahead of you. I know things you don't know yet. The words "psyop" and "Honestly" rub it in. And it's hard to google for meaning because the results are swamped with repetitions of the fact that Musk tweeted it — mostly efforts to sell T-shirts with the image.
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