Summary

Elon Musk called for the firing of Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Long after she exposed racist tweets from Marko Elez, a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee who later resigned.

Long’s report revealed Elez had posted remarks promoting racism and eugenics.

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” Elez posted in July, according to the Journal’s review of archived posts.

Musk, who claims to support free speech, labeled Long “disgusting and cruel” and demanded that she should be fired.

Critics noted the hypocrisy of Musk advocating for a journalist’s removal over accurate reporting on a public official’s misconduct.

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    Unfortunately propoganda is very effective and most of the people who would outright call for groups to be placed in concentration camps simply for their existence can’t see any coorelation to them being like NAZI’s.

    Person I work with today, “I wouldn’t want to to go the Superbowl because someone would drop a nuke on our heads”. To which I responded, thankfully that has never happened. To which they responded, “Well people don’t even know what sex they are anymore.”

    So attempting to unpack any of that leaves me starting with the fact that they apparently mistrust transgender people so much that they fear they have the means and motivation to launch a nuclear attack on the President of the United States. Kim Jong Un really might want to meet these people.

    This person also calls every person of Hispanic descent we drive by an illegal that thankfully Trump will round up soon.

    It’s all blatant bigotry, but they can’t see it themselves.