Musk has posted about an impending civil war on his social media platform X at least eight times in the past 10 months. Some warn it’s dangerous rhetoric.
Elon Musk attends 'Exploring the New Frontiers of Innovation: Mark Read in Conversation with Elon Musk' session during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024 - Day Three on June 19, 2024 in Cannes, France.Tech billionaire Elon Musk has repeatedly prophesied a future civil war related to immigration.
"What you're seeing in these calls for civil war is a white supremacist clarion call. It is a dog whistle," said Jon Lewis, a research fellow at George Washington University's Program on Extremism. that Ireland was "on the brink of civil war" because of immigration, and followers of the "Boogaloo" anti-government movement have for years. Extreme practitioners of the philosophy believe that stoking tensions around topics like immigration could lead to wars and hasten a larger societal collapse, creating an opportunity to reformulate society in a way that's more favorable to extremists.
Musk has invoked the idea in relation to numerous conflicts. Last October, days after the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, he responded to pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Europe with a call for reduced immigration onto the continent.Kisin responded to Musk: "Civil war implies someone will fight back. Based on current evidence, I'm not even sure that will happen."
Immigrants to Europe come from many places. In the U.K., four of the top five non-E.U. countries of origin are former British colonies,In November, Musk continued his prophecy of a civil war but pivoted his rationale. In response to an article about Germany rearming its military after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, heby the emergence of an organized rebel army engaged in armed conflict seeking to overthrow a government.
She said that, historically, the much more common dynamic in the U.S. and the U.K. is that immigrants are victims of violence perpetrated by right-wing extremists with white supremacist ideologies. Musk's posts about civil war typically have a racial dimension. One of his posts came as a reply to an account criticizing "demographic pressure" from immigrants. Another time, Musk responded after the same account expressed dismay at the lack of assimilation by immigrants.
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