Elon Musk defended his remarks accusing Holocaust survivor and liberal donor George Soros of trying to weaken human civilization, despite pleas from Jewish advocates and reports that the Israeli government had condemned his rhetoric.
“It will embolden extremists who already contrive anti-Jewish conspiracies and have tried to attack Soros and Jewish communities as a result,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted. Musk later replied that the organization should drop the “Anti” from its name.at a Tesla manufacturing plant in Austin, Faber pressed him to explain his incendiary rhetoric.
“Why share it when people who buy Teslas may not agree with you, advertisers on Twitter may not agree with you? Why not just say, ‘Hey, I think this.’ You can tell me, we can talk about it over there, you can tell your friends — but why share it widely?” “I mean, uh, freedom of speech. I’m allowed to say what I want,” Musk replied, falling back on an argument he has used often since he purchased Twitter last year and set about undoing the platform’s restrictions on hate speech.
The CNBC host pressed Musk one more time. “I’m trying to understand why you do it, because it puts you in the middle of a partisan divide in the country,” Faber said. “It makes you a lightning rod for critics. Do you like that? You know people today are saying, he’s an antisemite. I don’t think you are.”
“No, definitely, I’m like a pro-semite if anything,” said Musk, who then changed the subject. “We don’t want to make this a George Soros interview.”
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