The Post corrected this quickly, but it makes you wonder what their inputs were.
Raman didn't concede. Her full speech was on C-Span, 12 minutes, easy fact check. The "she cried bc she lost" stuff was entirely RW X/YouTube chatter.
Elon Musk is still going and I don’t know what to say. Unhinged racism and unmoored violent fantasies.
I would say his site should be blocked, but thanks to Starlink he’s beyond reach (which is point of Starlink).
Also note that the original post was 12 hours before he found it and replied.
Elon Musk is unambiguously calling for a violent race war.
This is far from unprecedented. The Rwandan Genocide was stoked and enabled by Felicien Kabuga, the wealthy owner of the RTLM radio station that helped coordinate the genocide and used euphemisms like "go to work" to signal attacks.
This is a useful guide, with concrete steps to taking action, for getting your company to leave Twitter/X and preventing your school from implementing genAI in the classroom.
Dave Weigel
Justin
The Washington Post editorial board printing a straight up right-wing lie
Every so often a new story pops up and everyone remembers that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer who foments violence on his Nazi website. Then everyone forgets again.
Some other things you can do (I know cause I've done them)
- reach out to a city councilor and get your municipality to pass a resolution ceasing use of X
- the same but with your local DSA chapter
(both passed unanimously btw)
