"On Monday [October 21, 2024], Elon Musk invoked the names of two German Nazis in a tweet while simultaneously disparaging modern pronoun conventions — attempting, as he so often does, to make a joke. (I’m not repeating the text here — not because it’s profane, but mostly because it’s just not funny.)
For context, Musk was responding to a post about a Der Spiegel article that compared him to a media mogul who helped Hitler climb to power.
— Allison Morrow, Any other CEO would have been fired for what Elon Musk just said, CNN, October 23, 2024
Morrow also mentions that the previous month, Musk had promoted a
"widely condemned interview with a Nazi apologist who said the murder of Jews in concentration camps was “humane” and that Winston Churchill was the “chief villain” of World War II. Musk later deleted his X post that called the interview 'very interesting' and 'worth watching,' per the Independent."
— Allison Morrow, Any other CEO would have been fired for what Elon Musk just said, CNN, October 23, 2024
a lesson we have learned repeatedly in the UK is that when transphobes suddenly appear in load-bearing roles in organisations, they are usually prepared to sacrifice everything, including their job and their org’s credibility, in order to platform and perform transphobia
— Alyson Greaves (@badambulist.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 3:51 AM
like, transphobia legit cooks people's brains. I'm talking people who are so determined to keep abusing trans children at their teaching job that they keep returning to school even after they've been fired, even after they've been taken to court. you cannot communicate rationally with these people.
— Alyson Greaves (@badambulist.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 5:46 AM
a new antisemitism, the parasitic traits of the belief — jeopardizing one's job, jeopardizing one's relationships, solely isolating the hosts in communities of persons who similarly can only discuss a single topic daily and for years straight, the conspiratorialism, etc.
— Salty 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 (@nacl.sh) December 11, 2024 at 6:33 AM
transphobia operates very much like the antisemitism we're all familiar with, but born anew altho still modeled in a distinct image
— Salty 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 (@nacl.sh) December 11, 2024 at 6:34 AM