Elon Musk's recent use of Nazi-themed puns on X (formerly Twitter) has drawn widespread condemnation, including from the Anti-Defamation League. This follows his controversial salute at Donald Trump's inauguration, which the ADL initially defended as a harmless gesture. Social neuroscience expert Matt Lieberman criticized Musk's support for the Alternative for Germany neo-Nazi party and his failure to apologize for the Nazi salute.
Elon Musk 's edgelord tendencies are now alienating even some of his most ardent defenders." salute at President Donald Trump 's inaugural festivities, Musk doubled down today by making a slew of disgusting puns using the names of Nazi leaders likeon the platform he owns, a reference to Adolf Hitler's second-hand man Rudolf Hess. "I bet you did nazi that coming."
The egregious edgelord jokes earned Musk condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish organization that raised eyebrows by defending his Nazi salute days prior as an " "We've said it hundreds of times before and we will say it again: the Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it,"ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt, who didn't make any mention of his organization's previous defense of the Nazi salute foible.Social neuroscience pioneer Matt Lieberman, meanwhile, linked Musk's support for the Alternative for Germany neo-Nazi party to this latest stunt — and detailed what could have been.
"Many are disturbed that the world's richest man and of our country made a Nazi salute after supporting a Neo-Nazi party in Germany," Lieberman wrote. "He could have diffused things by saying 'My bad — I didn't mean to do a gesture that looked like that.'", he should probably refrain from making tasteless jokes about the genocidal regime — especially now that he's stepped even more into the public spotlight with Trump.
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