South African immigrant Elon Musk remains to be criticizing immigrants from Black majority nations, this time accusing them of coming to the USA to vote for Democrats.
Musk made his racist commentary throughout a Wednesday interview with Katie Miller, spouse of bigoted Trump administration official Stephen Miller. The multibillionaire Republican donor reiterated a false conspiracy concept he’s beforehand touted, alleging that immigrants have been paid to maneuver to the USA to vote for Democrats.
“We’re paying people to come here from somewhere else in vast numbers, including flying them in—it’s not like you need a border wall if you’re flying them in—then fast-tracking them to citizenship,” Musk mentioned.
He additionally argued that this elaborate scheme results in immigrant communities voting “hard left,” and described the concept as “voter importation.”
The idea is a long-standing white supremacist conspiracy often called “great replacement,” touted as a option to exchange white voters with foreign-born, nonwhite voters.
Musk mentioned this creates a “money magnet” and cited Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, an immigrant from Somalia. In accordance with Musk, Omar was “voted into power by a large group of people from Somalia who are in Minnesota, which is really far from Somalia.”
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a Somali immigrant, has lengthy been a goal of right-wing racist assaults.
He additionally known as into query the current election of New York Metropolis’s Zohran Mamdani “by a majority of people who are not born in America.”
Musk’s bigoted remarks echo President Donald Trump, who has spent the final two weeks denigrating Omar and Minnesota’s Somali communities
However Musk’s feedback show much more racist as a result of he himself is an immigrant from South Africa—the one distinction being that he’s white. Musk moved to the USA and acquired tens of millions in authorities assist to assist launch his firms, with tens of millions in authorities contracts persevering with to come back in.
Regardless of his repeated failures to ship on his grandiose tech-centric guarantees, Musk has earned billions due to U.S. taxpayers. These funds have been used to again racist U.S. candidates—most notably Trump—in addition to racist political events in Europe.
Musk additionally successfully admitted in his interview with Miller that his so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity was a failure, saying that, if he may return in time, he wouldn’t do it once more. He additionally complained that his actions at DOGE led to folks “burning the cars”—a reference to intensive protests at varied Tesla services throughout the nation.
DOGE continues to be below hearth for ending life-saving applications the world over, violating People’ privateness, and costing taxpayers tens of millions—all after promising that the shoddy group would save the federal government billions.
