Summary

Elon Musk escalated controversy over accusations that his salute at a Trump rally resembled a “Sieg heil” by posting Nazi-related jokes on X, referencing figures like Rudolf Hess and Joseph Goebbels.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) initially defended Musk, urging “a bit of grace” and “benefit of the doubt,” but later condemned his Holocaust-related jokes as offensive.

Conservative Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also defended Musk.

Critics highlighted Musk’s history of promoting far-right conspiracy theories and enabling neo-Nazi content on X, raising concerns about increasing offensive rhetoric on the platform.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    19 hours ago

    The ADL lost all credibility forever, and the right to open their trap about anything, when they failed to condemn Musk’s Nazi salute in the strongest possible terms.

    It’s not great when gentiles don’t distance themselves clearly from the South African Nazi. But when jews don’t either - especially jews who purport to defend against defamation of all things - it’s extremely clear that those people are either totally corrupt or extremely wimpy.

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      7 hours ago

      The ADL lost all credibility forever, and the right to open their trap about anything, when they failed to condemn Musk’s Nazi salute in the strongest possible terms.

      Someone hasn’t been paying attention to what they’ve been saying every time someone criticized the atrocities of Israeli governments for the past 75 years…

      The reason why they bent over backwards to defend him at first is the same reason why they called him “a friend to Jews”: because of his positive relations with their favorite fascist apartheid regime.

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      17 hours ago

      People said they were just an Israel lobbyist group and I just shrugged my shoulders. But after defending genocide and Musk, it’s clear the last thing they actually care about is “defamation”…

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        15 hours ago

        I mean I have to wonder how it took you so long to come to that conclusion, but better late than never I guess.

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      18 hours ago

      It’s part of their name now. “The ADL, which defended Musk’s nazi salute…”

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      15 hours ago

      Honestly, if you still gave them any credibility you haven’t been paying attention. They have long held the opinion that antizionism is antisemitic.