Threatening a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against watchdog groups claiming X, formerly Twitter, posts anti-Semitic tropes, 52-year-old mega-billionaire Elon Musk takes out his frustration on making incendiary remarks. Musk can’t control his paranoia or his mouth, a problems not only for rich billionaires but for anyone coping with life’s daily ups-and-downs. Musk doesn’t seem to understand that political correctness or some degree of filtered speech is necessary for everyone, including mega-billionaires like Musk. Musk has admirers for his many accomplishments, especially with his Tesla Motors starting the electric-car revolution. Certainly saving the U.S. manned space program after NASA’s Space Shuttle retired in 2011 also deserves a ton of credit when SpaceX created the reusable Dragon Spacecraft and Falocn 9 rocket. Yet Musk is not immune to the court of public opinion.
When Musk bought Twitter, now called X, Oct. 27, 2022, there was much high drama especially over Twitter’s share price plummeting well below Musk’s purchase price of $42 a share. But whatever the controversy, including firing much of its executive staff, especially the ones that banned high profile Twitter users like former President Donald Trump, Musk makes things worse for himself. Now Musk threatens what he calls a “thermonuclear lawsuit” over Center of Countering Digital Hate [CCDH]. Filing suit to dismiss and Anti-SLAPP motion claiming that X “ginned up baseless claims” for how CCDH collects data. Musk doesn’t take responsibility for allowing anti-Semitic tropes disseminated on X, then having the nerve to endorse the tweets expecting the public to ignore his madness. Musk hasn’t learned much about offending the public.
Suing watchdog companies for pointing out unacceptable speech makes no sense, when all Social Media platforms have to operate within community standards. “Apparently unhappy with how it is faring in the marketplace of ideas, X Corp asks this court to shut that marketplace down—to punish the CCDH defendants for their speech and to silence others who might speak about X-Corp. in the future. Thus, X Corp. seeks ‘at least tens of millions of dollars’ in damages based on how advertisers reacted to what the CCDH defendants said about X-Corp in their public reports.” Musk doesn’t get that he can’t shoot off his mouth without repercussions. “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them,” said the X post. “You have said the actual truth,” Musk said, infuriating the Jewish community.
Musk tried to divert attention away from endorsing an anti-Semitic trope about Jews seeking to dilute the White population in what’s become known to White Supremacists as “replacement theory.” Musk tries to blame the Anti Defamation League [ADL] saying it “unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel,” Musk said. How Musk could agree with Jewish “great replacement theory” is anyone’s guess. It was the operative delusion of 46-year-old Robert Bowers when he slaughtered Oct. 27, 2018 11 Jews at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. Bowers, who was psychotic, believed in “replacement theory,” just like Jmusk’s X user with whom he agreed. Once Musk agreed with Bowers and other anti-Semitic bigots, believing in “great replacement theory,” but more generally that Jews are part of an international conspiracy to take over the world.
Musk threatens a ‘thermouclear lawsuit” against CCDH because they called him out for endorsing outrageous anti-Semitic tropes. Musk should consider suing himself for making slanderous or libelous statements costing his company X millions of dollars in lost advertising. Because of Musk’s impulsive, ill-advised public statements on X, several publicly traded companies decided to pull their advertising, including Comcast/NBCUniversal, Paramount Global, The Walt Disney Company, Apple and Lionsgate, Whatever Musk’s eccentric personal views, he should keep them out of the public eye because of possible costs to X or his other companies. Musk should spend money on some personal therapy, not on attorneys trying to argue watchdog groups cost his X company precious capital. Musk’s personal views have no place in the public eye, especially if they’re so quirky.
Mega-billionaire Elon Musk has a problem with his mouth, thinking somehow that his billionaire status gives him a right to offend other groups. If he’s called out for sharing psychotic thoughts, better kept inside his own skull, he should blame himself, not OCDH or any other watchdog group responsible to calling companies and people out for bigoted or racist thoughts. “It is unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind the most fatal act of antii-Semitism in American history at any time, let alone one month after the deadliest date for the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” said White House Spokesman Andrew Bates. Bates referred to the massacre of worshipers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. Musk’s own eccentric beliefs get the better of him, occasionally sharing it with the public, this time about “the great replacement theory.” Musk’s other crazy thought should be kept private.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
