There’s a preferred saying a few pot and a kettle, nevertheless it doesn’t seem to be Elon Musk has heard it.
The Tesla CEO took to his social media kingdom, X, on Thursday to smear the Southern Poverty Regulation Middle, a civil rights advocacy group, as a hate-filled propaganda machine.
“The SPLC is an evil organization that spreads hate propaganda relentlessly,” Musk wrote. “It needs to be shut down.”
His newest verbal assault on the SPLC was in response to a separate put up by far-right influencer Mike Cernovich, who falsely blamed the SPLC’s monitoring of home extremism for “incit[ing] a mass shooting” in opposition to right-wing activist group Household Analysis Council in 2012.
A demonstrator holds an indication throughout a protest of Tesla CEO Elon Musk close to a dealership on March 8 in Georgia.
It is sensible why Musk would hate an extremism-tracking group, provided that he himself frequently advocates for far-right extremism.
In January, Musk threw up his arm in a Nazi-style salute throughout a rally celebrating Trump’s inauguration. And in July, the multibillionaire’s synthetic intelligence program, Grok, referred to as itself “MechaHitler” and spewed different antisemitic drivel.
In 2024, the daddy of 14 recognized youngsters mentioned his transgender daughter Vivian Wilson was figuratively “dead, killed by the woke mind virus.” That very same yr, Wilson alleged Musk frequently harassed her as a baby for being female.
Past Musk, the precise is pushing a story that leftist activists are largely violent and harmful. Trump has repeatedly labeled liberal activists as “radical” and as “terrorists.” Nonetheless, analysis has constantly discovered that right-wing extremists have carried out much more violence than left-win extremists in latest historical past.
There’s one other proverb that Musk seemingly hasn’t heard: Folks in glass homes should not throw stones.
