It’s low key disturbing that the Times described Elon Musk as engaging in a process of “atonement” without including a single voice stating that using the death camp where more than a million Jews were murdered to promote your advertising business is offensive.
Like an actually useful thing that the NYT could do to combat anti-semitism would be to educate readers about the tropes of Holocaust deniers and contextualize the kind of rhetoric they’re hearing from the world’s richest man.
Oh no, the fantasy tweets from the Elon Musk–Ben Shapiro visit include Community Notes heroically debunking @AuschwitzCampOfficial's claims that the Jews are actually having a great time. Also annoying arguments with Holocaust deniers—that's X all right! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmlS...
oh i'm having FEELINGS about how the "holocaust denier" in that one screenshot is jewish and the truth-telling anti-nazis are all anglos. 😡😡😡
this is all so fucking antisemitic
100% And:
It's one thing to imagine oneself as a member of the white rose, but it's another thing to imagine oneself as a member of the white rose, and also surviving.
Not only is it obscene, but it fails to come to grip with the question visiting places like that pose: If I were there, would I have participated in the evil that was perpetrated? A person who says, "Of course I wouldn't have, and this is how I would have stopped it," completely misses the point.
If anyone were to point out how he missed the point, they'd get mocked by his sycophants. Whether or not it is a deliberate tactic, it feels like an attempt to normalize the (to me) incredible proposition that people with supremacist leanings not only couldn't be Nazis, but would oppose them.
It is in extreme poor taste to advertise his crumbly cesspool using Holocaust memory, and I worry even more about why he's doing it.
And also I'd like to say that Jonathan Greenblatt should have known it would come to this.
None of this is accidental, the Twitter platform exists at this point to promote his brand of ethno-nationalism.
Faux-opposition presented is Musk's joke, the "who goes Nazi" normalizing/laundering is among media outlets like the NYT who willingly serve his ends.
I agree with the first point. It seems unlikely any social media platform that fills the role twitter previously occupied could survive corruption for long.
As for the second? The NYT is where it is because elites are where they are. It is a fish eyed mirror with them centered. At least for now.
