Elon Musk All but Endorses the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory
Elon Musk, an immigrant from South Africa, kicked off 2024 with a slew of tweets attacking the Biden administration over immigration numbers and advancing the dubious argument that the president welcomes those who enter the country illegally, viewing them as “future Dem voters.”
Since the end of December, Musk has left a graph pinned to the top of his profile on X (formerly Twitter) that claims to show how more migrants are now arriving at the southern border than there are babies being born to American mothers. “Almost no one seems to be aware of the immense size and lightning growth of this issue,” he wrote in his post. But the data he’s quoting, as the Washington Post reported, is misleading: the number of monthly migrant encounters at the border is always higher than U.S. births, and besides, many of those migrants are turned away before entry, quickly expelled or sent to detention.
All told, then, the Tesla CEO and X owner has long been receptive to racist, far-right talking points alleging some erosion of Western white identity. In the past few days, however, he has embraced them more fully, to the point of seeing an orchestrated plot. On Thursday, he took to X to agree with Geert Wilders, a Dutch political leader notorious for harsh rhetoric against immigrants and Muslims, that “a collapse of our own culture and Western values due to open borders” and “an uncontrollable amount of non-western asylum seekers” was the “biggest problem we face today.” He also evidently accepted Wilders’ claim that “weak politicians advocating cultural relativism” shared in the blame for this imagined issue.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cul...234941337/
Elon Musk, an immigrant from South Africa, kicked off 2024 with a slew of tweets attacking the Biden administration over immigration numbers and advancing the dubious argument that the president welcomes those who enter the country illegally, viewing them as “future Dem voters.”
Since the end of December, Musk has left a graph pinned to the top of his profile on X (formerly Twitter) that claims to show how more migrants are now arriving at the southern border than there are babies being born to American mothers. “Almost no one seems to be aware of the immense size and lightning growth of this issue,” he wrote in his post. But the data he’s quoting, as the Washington Post reported, is misleading: the number of monthly migrant encounters at the border is always higher than U.S. births, and besides, many of those migrants are turned away before entry, quickly expelled or sent to detention.
All told, then, the Tesla CEO and X owner has long been receptive to racist, far-right talking points alleging some erosion of Western white identity. In the past few days, however, he has embraced them more fully, to the point of seeing an orchestrated plot. On Thursday, he took to X to agree with Geert Wilders, a Dutch political leader notorious for harsh rhetoric against immigrants and Muslims, that “a collapse of our own culture and Western values due to open borders” and “an uncontrollable amount of non-western asylum seekers” was the “biggest problem we face today.” He also evidently accepted Wilders’ claim that “weak politicians advocating cultural relativism” shared in the blame for this imagined issue.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cul...234941337/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
