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Defended early Thursday morning Elon Musk The Nazi dictator Adolf on his social media platform X Hitler. “Stalin, Mao and Hitler have not murdered millions of people,” says the post a pseudonymous user divided into a screenshot. Which in turn comes from a right -wing extremist account, follows the musk. “Your employees in the public sector did that.”
This knowledge should be a matter of course: the Nazis carried out the Holocaust, in which millions of Jews and others were killed. At the instructions of Hitler and the party leadership. But for Musk there is an ahistorical view of the Second World War, which is demonized the kind of work against which he fights in Washington, simply too comfortable to miss it. The President of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (Afscme), the largest union for employees in the public service in the United States, did not do this.
“America’s employees in the public service – our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians – have decided to make our communities safely, healthy and strong instead of becoming rich,” said Lee Saunders from Afscme in one Explanation on Thursday. “They are not murderous murderers, as the richest man in the world indicates. Elon Musk and the billionaires in this government have no idea what real people go through every day. That is why he is so willing to destroy the jobs of people, medicaid, social security and Medicare with the chainsaw. ”
“Some people would do everything!”
After the counter reaction, Musk finally removed the post from his feed on Friday.
Some of Musk’s critics Have him as a Nazi designated. Although he denies this, he seems to have only developed more in this direction since his takeover after Trump’s return to the White House.
While he was before already forbidden white nationalists allowed again on his website and with some of yours racist conspiracy theories had busy, he excited much more outrage with one raised arm to greeting at a inauguration event in January, which was not to be distinguished from a “Sieg Heil” gesture. When he was confronted with counter -reactions, he posted a number of word games called the notorious Nazis. Among them “Some people would do everything!” And “his pronouns would have been/Himmler!”
His later Dementis that he was a Nazi were not entirely convincing. In an interview with the influential podcaster Joe Rogan Musk protested that you couldn’t be a Nazi. Unless you “commit genocide”. Or “fall in Poland”. (Of course, many of today’s self -proclaimed Nazis have neither done one nor the other.)
In a virtual appearance to support the right -wing extremist Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has connections to neo -Nazis, he replaced the continued effects of the Holocaust and said: “Children should not feel guilty for their parents’ sins. Let alone for those of their great -grandparents. “
They are comments like these who have contributed to this A boycott movement Against Musk’s car manufacturer Tesla to fuel. Eobei some of the company’s electric vehicles as “swastika“Design. While the campaign “Tesla Takedown“Peacefully demonstrated in front of Tesla car dealerships, some locations were targeted for alleged arson or vandalism. Underneath swastika sprayed with spray paint on cars and property.
Musk’s political views and public comments have been ravine since after taking on Twitter in 2022 he moved misinformation in an ecosystem. He enjoys his role as an Internet antagonist. But it is not clear what he wants to achieve with his repeated Nazi alludes and his revisionism.
“Decoration” for Musk’s photo shoot
A little more than a year ago he visited Israel and the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland, where the Nazis murdered over a million people. After being accused, he came to allow anti -Semitic content on his platform and even promote. Gidon Lev, a Holocaust survivor who met Musk there, said in a later one interviewthat he was “not impressed because [Musk] not the slightest attempt to make personal contacts ”and he had the feeling that he was used as a“ decoration ”for Musk’s photo shoot.
Musk noticed in his partthat the terrible past, which is characterized by Auschwitz, “hits a lot more into the heart when you see it with your own eyes”. It was obvious that he said this during this PR tour, which was intended as a damage limitation. To curb the flood of advertising customers who leave Twitter because of its failures in the moderation of content and its own extremism. But apparently this feeling has faded over time. If it has ever existed.
Update, March 14, 8:11 p.m. ET: This story has been updated to note that Musk later removed the contribution via Stalin, Mao and Hitler.