“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11125375

“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."

Elon Musk said he is “Jewish by association” during a conversation with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro after a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.

Musk, the Tesla CEO and owner of social media platform X, made the comments during a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association. The association had arranged for Musk to make a private visit to Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.1 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust.

“I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism. … Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish,” the billionaire tech mogul said in a video posted on YouTube by Bloomberg Technology. “I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends. I’m like Jewish by association.”

  • mhague@lemmy.worldEnglish
    136·
    5 个月前

    He says there’s no antisemitism in his close circles, as if that matters, but it’s also a lie because he himself backed a “Jews are trying to replace whites” post on Twitter.

    Also, he said he was Jewish by association because he has a lot of Jewish friends. Different brand of ridiculousness from what the headline implies.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      13·
      5 个月前

      Yeah, this would be a dumb thing to say even if wasn’t bullshit.

      I mean, plenty of people don’t encounter antisemitism in their daily life. So what? I don’t either, for the most part, because I don’t associate with antisemites, but I’m not dumb enough to imply that my social bubble represents the wider world. I am capable of reading, so I do have some idea of what goes on outside my bubble, and I am cognizant of the limits of my personal experience. The conversations I personally have at the dinner table do not have broad social implications.

    • cabbage@piefed.social
      6·
      5 个月前

      If you read between the lines he’s not saying he’s Jewish by association because he has so many Jewish friends; he’s saying he’s Jewish by association because he’s a billionaire.

      Scum of the earth.

  • EvilBit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    5 个月前

    When Trey Parker and Matt Stone had a bunch of lily-white Mormon missionaries sing the line “Africans are African but we are Africa”, they were making a joke. This fucking guy, however…

  • MNByChoice@midwest.socialEnglish
    28·
    5 个月前

    “Jewish by association”

    Sounds pretty not good. Cultural appropriation with a side of self centeredness.

    Also, pretty antisemitic.

    Are there better words to clearly label this?

  • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    5 个月前

    What did he “by association” himself after his visit to the US southern border?

    Did he stop at a McDonalds along the way and “by association” make himself a minimum wage worker with two jobs and three roommates struggling to get by?

  • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    15·
    5 个月前

    The world would have been better off if he had been friends with the submarine guy and got imploded by association.

  • ares35@kbin.social
    14·
    5 个月前

    he’s got boot lickers, ass kissers, and ‘yes’-men…

    and people paid to put up with his shit…

    i doubt he has any actual friends.

  • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 个月前

    What’s that saying? If you don’t know who the asshole in your friend group is, it’s you? Also, the level of antisemitism we were looking for was none. None.

  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
    133·
    5 个月前

    This has got to the be the most misleading headline I’ve ever seen. His comments about “almost no antisemitism” had absolutely nothing to do with his visit to Auschwitz.