Elon Musk – Over The Line? 11/17/23
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4.5 • 66 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Elon Musk, under fire after endorsing an anti-Semitic post on X, the fallout or the lack of it, |
| 0:07.1 | for one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. |
| 0:11.8 | It's Friday, November 17th. Welcome to the Tech Check |
| 0:14.4 | podcast. I am dear Durbosa. And I'm Mark Gilbert. |
| 0:18.0 | Eon Musk is no stranger to many divisive cultural and social issues. |
| 0:24.0 | He wades in often on Twitter or acts, |
| 0:27.0 | replying often, criticizing US immigration policy, |
| 0:32.0 | gender politics, giving credence to many different conspiracy theories, |
| 0:37.0 | but the latest deed is endorsing an anti-Semitic post. |
| 0:46.0 | At a time when emotions are running very, very high. So this is raising the question. |
| 0:48.0 | Has he finally gone too far? |
| 0:50.0 | Let's talk about the actual post at first. |
| 0:51.7 | So he agreed with a post on X that said Jewish communities, |
| 0:55.7 | quote, have been pushing hatred against whites. |
| 0:58.4 | The post also referenced, quote, hordes of minorities, |
| 1:01.8 | flooding Western countries, which is very incendiary language, Mark. |
| 1:07.2 | And in the past, when he's replied or retweeted to something, you know, there was always been someone out there who said, |
| 1:15.0 | okay, maybe he meant something else, |
| 1:16.0 | but this one was very clear, especially his response. |
| 1:19.0 | Right, exactly. |
| 1:20.0 | He said this is the absolute truth. |
| 1:22.0 | So it's hard to sort of read that in any way |
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