Elon Musk Is Spreading Centuries-Old Racist Pseudo-Science

[@aleksosis8347]

Whaa?!! The South African emerald mine heir is racist?!! Shocking!! (drops monocle in champaign glass)

[@RichardHarlos]

_"emerald mine heir..."_ You don't fact-check things. Noted.

[@Leon-bc8hm]

@@RichardHarlos Today, Elon Musk refutes claims about his family owning an emerald mine, even though past statements suggest otherwise. Who doesn't check facts. It is you cultist.

[@LinguisticLifeform]

​@@RichardHarloscheck out the Futurism article "Elon Musk's Dad Says His Son's Whole Career Was Funded by That Emerald Mine" The "fact checking" is not as clear cut as you would like it to be

[@RichardHarlos]

@@LinguisticLifeform Last 2 paragraphs proved the necessary context for your reference to Elon as an 'heir': " 'Elon's main concern is not to appear to be a "trust fund kid" who got everything given to him on a plate," Errol told the tabloid, though did add that **the belief that his son was born with a silver - or, well, emerald - spoon in his mouth "isn't true."** **"Elon took risks and worked like blazes to be where he is today.** The emeralds helped us through a very trying time in South Africa, when people were fleeing the country in droves, including his mother's whole family, and earning opportunities were at an all-time low," he continued. "That's all." Now that the necessary context has been added, you see that he wasn't an 'heir' after all. Maybe you should read your sources with a critical mind _before_ telling other people to read them.

[@LinguisticLifeform]

@@RichardHarlos you can split hairs about the use of the word heir but Elon was a beneficiary of that emerald wealth according to his father. It would seem Elon chose to deny this in order to keep his mythology intact. The fact checking is not clear cut and the main thrust of the argument remains intact no matter if Elon was a beneficiary or an inheritor. The argument being that Elon was not a self made wonder, he had the backing of his father's wealth

[@prschuster]

He is from South Africa, the home of apartheid.

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

Ok! and? I'm glad he got out of that ANC run 3rd World s---hole.

[@jayfrank1913]

And he was raised during it. I never met a White South African who grew up there in the 70's or 80's who didn't have deeply ingrained sense of racism. Some could overcome it, most couldn't. The number of times I've heard some variation of "You don't understand, the Blacks in Africa are animals, not like African Americans."

[@mikapeltokorpi7671]

Not to mention that emerald mine in South Rhodesia.

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

It's not doing Rhodesia much good, they're a 3rd World Country.@@mikapeltokorpi7671

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

I know, the evil proponent's of esteemed Western Civilisation.@@jayfrank1913

[@kateb2643]

He grew up in South Africa at a time when that was the dominant belief among white people. You'd think he'd have grown out of it by now. Dude is a proper cartoon villain

[@yore5]

Years ago he was faking it by saying he left SA because of Apartheid. Now the mask has fully slipped

[@buckeyewill2166]

The Joker…without his green hair and makeup

[@yuiitodoro7791]

His tech are cool and great ! But his views and opinions are very sus

[@vingedheart]

When? It's still like that.

[@oakmaiden2133]

He has autism, eugenics would have him euthanized. The eugenics idea started out to help women have healthier babies. To end birth defects. Then people twisted it to racist ends. Anyone who wasn’t perfect was at risk.

[@wellscampbell9858]

This reminds me of an anecdote I learned in a sociology course long ago. A scientist produced a paper showing that the aboriginal people of Australia did poorly compared to their white counterparts on some test that used simple geometric shapes to determine an aspect of intelligence. Later, another scientist repeated the test, but with photographs of rocks from areas the Aborigines were familiar with. The Aborigines crushed the test, doing far better than their counterparts. Scientists know their work has limitations and always seek to improve their methods. Non-scientists have a result and search for the data to support it.

[@phillyphil1513]

ref: "There are 3 kinds of Lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and STATISTICS..." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

[@pansepot1490]

Yeah, try give random Americans an IQ test written in Chinese and then see how much they score.

[@rinkohorowitz]

@@pansepot1490They have started basing their claims on “culturally fair IQ tests” that being those involving geometric shape patterns and not words.

[@ek.2533]

​@@pansepot1490 I see that you completely missed their point.

[@bonitahobbs2374]

They took everything' from the Aboriginal people not just their land and ores but even didn't they take their distinct sacred grounds and even burial ground's

[@bigboy3454]

Welp, I guess you can take the boy out of the Apartheid, but you can't take the Apartheid out of the boy. Smh

[@dontcare3430]

Exactly. He's a boy in a man's body. Acts like a child . Thinks like a racist.

[@nootnewt9323]

Apartheid Clyde moment

[@RomQxt]

Ahem. I'm a whitey SAfrican. Once I left SA in 1987 to a more open and more free society in Portugal, my eyes were opened. Musk is 2 years younger than me. He left SA at roughly the same age as me, after high school, but for Canada. I self-reflected and, even though I thought I was liberal, I could recognise I had many subconscious biases and prejudices. I changed. Musk never self-reflected. If he even can is doubtful.

[@chucksneed5089]

@@RomQxt That's awesome to hear, I wish more people self reflected like you did

[@rudomhende5108]

Speak forth

[@diggao77]

Elon Musk: "Racism will stop if we stop talking about this. Wokies are obscessed with race" Also Elon:

[@jollyjoker888]

And " Wookies " Are Obsessed with TRUTH !?? " mehhhh"

[@xbabu142x]

What's fascinating to me is the man who has made his companies success by innovating fiber optics is black that's the morbidly fascinating part of it all. It seems like he wants to be the one of one, the African American racists can truly be correct on.

[@KudiGamer]

@@jollyjoker888What about the droid attack on the Wookies?

[@Hujloawffs]

And RACE doesn't EVEN EXIST

[@OmarBenjumea]

Not sure how people forget that Dr. Evil is a rich white man who grew up in the South African apartheid state.

[@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066]

​@@justinfleming5119 Yes, but his thinking hasn't progressed and he clearly has apartheid views.

[@justinfleming5119]

@@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066 😂 Clueless.

[@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066]

@@justinfleming5119 yes you are 😂

[@justinfleming5119]

@@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066 Judeo-liberalism just wrecks things and moves on satisfied with their "success" without ever looking back. And now it's doing a real genocide in Palestine while raging about "nazis" engaging in the democratic process at home.

[@justinfleming5119]

@@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066 It's not a problem for you that your worldview *requires* you to believe obvious, "2+2=5" lies with reality staring you in the face?

[@geehammer]

The X doesn't fall far from the swastika

[@freddogrosso9835]

I'm gonna use this one.

[@1Dark.Paradise.Lost1]

​@@justinfleming5119 Anything to prevent the resurgence of hateful ideology and rhetoric.

[@justinfleming5119]

@@1Dark.Paradise.Lost1 You mean White Nationalism or the ideology currently engaged in genocide? Do we ban the Magen David or the circle?

[@shellydurunna]

Omg🤣🤣

[@luna-p]

​@@justinfleming5119 Why stop the trash from identifying itself?

[@vikm1341]

He seems mentally unstable…I mean look at how he treats his children. Or what he names his children. Or what his ex wives/girlfriends say about him. Or how twitter has become now.

[@lulianjuliuswassbach]

He's an awful person. That's how he got so filthy rich

[@garypark9202]

@@vikm1341 He has the mental stability of a classic grandiose narcissist.... astoundingly insecure.... profoundly unstable. I would argue he doesn't SEEM mentally unstable, he IS mentally unstable. I am in agreement with you, though a bit more emphatic...and fanatic 🤪

[@CARPital]

​@@lulianjuliuswassbachno, that's not the reason why he became rich. He's working hard, is smart and had probably some luck. You writing that seems like you protect you ego because you are not rich. Saying 'i am a good person thus not rich'. No man, it's not working like that. There are many rich people out there doing good for society

[@lulianjuliuswassbach]

@@CARPital do you know how Elon Musk got rich? He is the biggest welfare queen there is, constantly getting money from the government and not paying his taxes. I never said that every rich person is a bad person, you also don't know anything about my personal financial situation. He inherited an emerald mine from his father and just like every other tech guy, got thousands and thousands of dollars from his family. Elon Musk did not get rich because he's a smart guy

[@Calcium-mn9eq]

​​@@CARPitalYou clearly are oblivious to the fact of this man's case. And it seems that your brain capacity is quite low, based on the way you interpreted the op's message. Smh!

[@richardshalla]

Elon is a poor excuse for a so called societal savior. He's a small angry child inside.

[@youteacher78]

He's the kind of person who unironically thinks Patrick Bateman is the hero in Psycho and who will quote Plato's idea of meritocracy, seeing himself as the philosopher king. Saving the world isn't about giving everyone acces to clean drinking water or some lowly achievable shit like that, it's about restoring the "right order" in society, after which everything will be magically alright.

[@brandillysmom]

The first time I heard of a person described as having a small angry child inside was DJT.

[@stormtrooper8420]

And extremely smart too

[@Max_Mustermann]

He seems to be a narcissist.

[@jamberry8026]

@@stormtrooper8420 What is that you say, you don't read books?😅

[@CJ-vw3dt]

I lived 1997 for some time in South Africa, and visited 2011/12 again. Especially in 1997 I met some white south Africans who tried to explain this way of thinking to me, that we europeans just wouldn't understand but that it would be a fact...and I also met (and actually learned from) very bright black south africans. And I remember being in a train from Cape town to Johannesburg and a white woman not entering the compartment because there was a coloured and a black woman sitting there with me...And that was the time when Musk was a young adult. Grown up in Apartheid, in a family that gained a lot from it, and feeling superior.

[@poweredbydecaf1915]

As an Arab, I am so proud that Elon Musk referred to us as 'The Enemy'. To be the enemy of such a vile person is truly an honor.

[@xbabu142x]

Oh man to this day I still get confusion when I tell them I practice Sharia Law in business ethics. Riba and it's definition and use is laid out the easiest to understand way in Sharia Law. They're always asking why my employees are loyal and why they're ok with everyone knowing each other's salaries. Even Catholics like the Sharia Law definition more than Usury. This Elon dude so dumb, he doesn't know the man responsible for all the innovations in fiber optics for his success now is black lol. In the US the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is looked at like a autocracy which I guess but they don't understand what that means there, they think it's North Korea.

[@poweredbydecaf1915]

@@xbabu142x They think Sharia Law = stoning women and blowing up buildings. I'm almost 40 now so I stopped trying to get through to them and thankfully these years the opinions of people like this become less and less relevant. They think their hatred makes them righteous. Let them live in the dark.

[@mbougarne]

No he's an enemy of Islam not Arabs. When he said according to his son that the Arabic is the language of the enemy he means Muslims not Arabs.

[@poweredbydecaf1915]

@@mbougarne Yeah, probably. Either way, whatever group Elon Musk dislikes is probably pretty great.

[@allisongross2946]

​@@mbougarneyou think he can tell the difference? You overestimate racists

[@WillemPenn]

So I was recently late diagnosed as autistic and someone said “Hey, don’t feel bad. There are lots of successful autistic people. Take Elon Musk for example.” I said, “I actually wasn’t feeling bad about my diagnosis until you pointed that out, but thanks I guess? I really don’t want to belong to any group he is a member of.” 😂

[@dshepherd107]

😂 💯

[@isaganipalanca8803]

Whoever said the Grand Musk Rat is autistic just insulted all autistic persons!

[@stephenlitten1789]

He is a Saffer, so don't feel so bad

[@sisuguillam5109]

Elon is not officially diagnosed, if I remember correctly. He claims to be autistic whenever it suits him.

[@danielpintard7382]

also I late diagnosed autistic person and the one thing that pains me is Elon going after trans autistic people for no good reason other than to be a troll and rile up his base

[@noahbirdrevolution]

Imagine being so insecure you have to lash out against "others" instead of addressing problems that affect you and your neighbors. As a Appalachian kid in the 80s and 90s, I would've never imagined that society would have a drastic social regression in the 2010s and 20s.

[@JdTaylor-xf4bc]

There is no progression, only regression.

[@noahbirdrevolution]

@@JdTaylor-xf4bc You'd be a tadpole.

[@incognitotorpedo42]

@@JdTaylor-xf4bc Not true. The future has a positive bias.

[@JdTaylor-xf4bc]

@@incognitotorpedo42 It sure does for those you aren't evil and wicked.

[@fallout1953]

​@@incognitotorpedo42How? Society always degenerates.

[@maargenbx1454]

The question “why are you arguing with derps online?” is incredibly frustrating. Are knowledgeable people supposed to cede online platforms to ignorance? Academics are supposed to sit in their ivory towers, write their papers, publish their books and only engage with each other? Online is where the people are. We need to encounter more knowledgeable people there, and not just people who form opinions before getting any facts, or without learning to think critically.

[@snowbird7254]

You have a good point. If we have people spreading misinformation on certain platforms, we need people to counteract that so it's not all one-sided.

[@othomas4592]

yes yes yes, exactly. Most of the people who know better have better things to do with their time, and also are averse to the frustration of trying to explain things to people who don't want it explained... or worse, who flat out reject even hearing the arguments because they've already made up their mind that you don''t know what you're talking about because it contradicts their preferred source... but we need to each take a little time to shine a little light and excise these malignant ideas before they grow and spread. We can see, with Q'anon and other conspiracy theories, for example , what happens when people don't do that. Nobody wants to take the time to help uncle Jim realize that 9-11 wasn't an inside job, even though yes yes yes the elites are corrupt and sometimes evil etc. etc. etc. but Jim, there are just too many lines of reasoning and evidence that disqualify the hypothesis and happen to converge on another one... but dammit, try getting Jim interested in that... and Jim is out there, recruiting new believers, all day long on the internet... Thanks to nobody scrutinizing Wakefield early enough and forcefully enough, and intervening early and substantially, we have millions of die-hard committed anti-vaxxers all over the world. Now we have measles outbreaks again, jesus.

[@DeutschlandDenDeutschen1848]

@@snowbird7254 There is a lot of misinformation on both sides on this topic. For example saying that race is not based in biology at all is misinformation because race is based on phenotype wich is biological. The racial idea of genetic clusters that only overlap marginally is wrong but saying that race/phenotype doesn't align somewhat with gentic similarity is also wrong. Even though two black africans can have very different genetic profiles, the closest match for each of them is still going to be a black african 100% of the time and never a nordic european. Garrison Hayes here also says that the debate on IQ data was settled generations ago when it obviously wasn't. The very man who received the nobel prize for discovering the structure of the DNA is still alive today shunned by the scientific mainstream for making claims like the ones criticized in the video. It is settled that there are IQ average differences between ethnic group, the cause is still being discussed: 1:52 Many people will straight up deny that the differences exist. The scientific consensus is that IQ changes to some degree depending on the enviroment (flynn effect) but that it is mostly genetic for individuals. From this we get the discussion about the differences in IQ averages of ethnic groups and wether they are caused by genetics (nature) or enviroment (nurture). Many scientists are more inclined to believe that it is nurture based on the empirical evicende but they don't have conclusive data on this, so scientists like the ones we see in the video do not claim that the cause is nurture, they criticize and debunk unscientific arguments advocating for nature. Scientists who are in favor of nature like the mentioned nobel prize winner are ostracized by the scientific mainsteam and essentially lose their jobs. Most people who are not scientists feel morally obligated to assume that nurture is the cause because nature would go against the moral dogma that emerged as a response to racially motivated terror. This creates a one sided discussion and it's going to be worsened by the stigmatization of data that goes against the popular narrative or data period. For example we actually see some friendly fire in this video with a tweet argumenting for nurture being framed because it mentions IQ averages at all 1:04

[@avinashreji60]

@@DeutschlandDenDeutschen1848 Lol german why don't raise your right arm so I can see you

[@Ladifour]

Online is where the bots are. Twitter is not an organic platform anymore.

[@cronizle]

Man, if I looked like Elon Musk, I would be avoiding bringing back phrenology like it was the plaque.

[@marigeo24]

it's funny because we all know he looks wasian

[@incognitotorpedo42]

lol, but seriously, Musk isn't "bringing back phrenology". The phrenology stuff was courtesy of Mother Jones and was meant to make him look bad. Musk is an asshole, but I don't want to lie about him.

[@vincentvega5686]

elon is bald. so insecure about it he had hair transplants.

[@mandyharewood886]

Plague.

[@kylemichaelreaves]

The irony of someone on the spectrum promoting eugenics is clearly lost on him. He's not nearly as smart as he markets himself to be.

[@bitterpaul6151]

Amazing how often, upon realising they don’t deserve their success, rich and powerful people seek out any bs to justify their position.

[@JamilaJibril-e8h]

Those tech things nerd Chad weird stuff by adult men it feels dumb and yeah Internet fanciest cult

[@spacedev2030]

"Arabic is language of enemy". Elon Musk. Weathly by money but bankrupt by morality and ethics.

[@harimauindia5775]

Good lord 💀

[@The-Singularity-X01]

If he had said it was Russian, it'd still be equally racist... but it would at least be 'somewhat' correct as right now Russia is proving itself to be quite belligerent.

[@buckeyewill2166]

Guess he doesn’t use the Arabic numeral system

[@PS-ej2xn]

As Muslims, we must invent such quotes, even if they are totally fake. Helps the cause of Islam.

[@harimauindia5775]

@@PS-ej2xn liar

[@ricardovelchi5760]

Elon Musk grew up in South Africa with a father who was a true believer. Apple not falling far from yhe tree? I don't get what people see in this guy and why they're so enamored with him

[@pcastromedina]

Agree

[@StephenFlynn-xl2fw]

Because they're also immature racists???

[@jamesarnette1394]

No. Money.

[@one-seventh]

On behalf of my country South Africa I apologise about Elon Musk. To add alacrity to idiocy, he went to school with me.

[@incognitotorpedo42]

Some people are enamored of Elon because he set out to solve one of mankind's greatest problems, climate change, and did more than pretty much any other human on the planet. Has he been a dick lately? Yes. But he's also done some good in the world.

[@Phyl0808]

Elon Musk grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid era. Those racist views were taught at an early age.

[@patriciagriffin1505]

Yes and hard to unlearn

[@JapanSpr94]

No excuse. They are also taught here in America.

[@RomQxt]

I concur and support your assertion. I'm also white and I was born in SA 2 years before Musk so he and I are contemporaries. Born around 100kms apart in the same province. Except he was born into an affluent family and I was born into a blue-collar working class family, albeit extremely privileged in comparison to 75% of the country. He and I both left SA directly after high school. I managed to unlearn many prejudices after being exposed to a more open and free society in Portugal. Why he didn't is probably because he refuses to self-reflect.

[@RomQxt]

​@@patriciagriffin1505 ...I left in 1987 and I am still unlearning but I believe it is possible!

[@patriciagriffin1505]

@@RomQxt yes I definitely do.. I grew up during the Civil Rights movement where there was much hatred shown toward our black brown communities I took a different path of love and compassion so I know it’s possible just takes conscious effort and looking into ourselves

[@fredrik3685]

Don't feed the beast, don't use Twitter and don't buy a Tesla.

[@wolfieeeee256]

(which are bad cars anyway!! Humanity is walking off a cliff-edge by choosing the electric car over an actual change in the way we live (better mass transit, better designed cities and living spaces etc)

[@ZeRo-yc7zf]

Have you seen tesla drivers? They are immune to rational thought

[@buckeyewill2166]

I dumped X….too many peach fuzzed face Hitler wannabes.

[@utilid4lifefigureitout602]

I went from ambivalent about Elon Musk when I knew very little about him... to unadulterated disgust after scratching the surface of who Elon Musk factually is and what he has undeniably said and done. The facade his percieved intelligence allows him to enjoy is an injustice all on it's own.

[@alliwishis_2]

He's coming off like Henry Ford and Walt Disney before him

[@angelainamarie9656]

Conservatives like to smirk and observe somehow that the Left 'used to love' Elon, but the truth is, we just didn't know him as a person, we knew what his PR folks wanted everyone to know. Once he came out from behind his press releases and started talking himself, he revealed what an egotistical, hypersensitive, thin-skinned idiot he really was.

[@lynnhettrick7588]

Same! And especially once he opened his mouth and spoke.

[@freddogrosso9835]

I use to kinda like him, until the situation where those kid got trapped in a cave in Thailand. After he tried to push the use of his submarine and they told him it's not suitable for that. He got really angry, like a little kid who never heard the word "no".

[@5paces164]

For such a wealthy man, he certainly has far too much free time. I’ve always been suspicious of Mr. Musk. What a name

[@dw3403]

He doesn't like censorship on his platform but don't you dare post anything about his false persona.

[@CharlieTWilbury]

He loves censorship on his platform and performs it regularly. Twitter is the furthest thing from a free speech platform.

[@MorganBondelid]

It’s always “rules for thee, not for me!”

[@CharlieTWilbury]

@@dw3403 lol! He has no issue with censorship, as long as he gets to decide what gets censored. Twitter censors more now than it did before he bought it.

[@alfredoalcantar8691]

@@MorganBondelid like democrats did for covid

[@alfredoalcantar8691]

@@CharlieTWilbury wow what

[@someone0904]

The fact that one of the most powerful men on Earth is racist is quite concerning

[@farziltheweebo4841]

Almost all white people in power are racists

[@d.k.s.5919]

Most of the most powerful people on earth develop elitist views, and sometimes it's race elitism.

[@shubhnamdeo2865]

No it's because it seems profitable to him. He chooses the side where he sees profits. He's a businessman. Nearly an oligarch.

[@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow]

most of them are right?

[@Blade.5786]

Not one of the most powerful (that title belongs to heads of states), but definitely one of the richest.

[@bassafarside6071]

Humanity has no need of billionaires.

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

So says you, poverty flats.

[@Jacob-ed1bl]

We literally wouldn't have what we have or live the easy lives we live without them 🙄. This is ridiculous thinking, to say the least. If you truly feel that way, go live with a tribe and never look back.

[@angelainamarie9656]

Nope. They all seem to be the absolute worst human beings alive. Something about being that wealthy either takes their decency from them, or they never had it in the first place and that's how they got to be so filthy rich. They sure didn't EARN it.

[@pfitz4881]

@mcfahk😂🤣😆

[@aethionr4478]

hahahaha i found the bootlicker. hahahaha who told you this garbage?@@Jacob-ed1bl

[@iainherridge6253]

I wish mother Jones would post more often?

[@MotherJones]

Working on it!! 🫡🙏🥰

[@WillemPenn]

@@MotherJonesThank you!! 🙏

[@siamsasean]

A big part of this is that IQ tests don't actually measure intelligence. People think they do, but intelligence isn't like height, weight, how fast you can run, how much you can lift. There's no "intelligence meter", no objective scale. IQ tests are tests of skills and knowledge. If you're high on skills/knowledge that are taught in the European/North American school systems, you measure as high IQ. If you're a skilled Chinese bladesmith and artist and know East Asian history and languages well, but can't read English and you're given an IQ test in Louisiana, you'll probably bomb.

[@harimauindia5775]

So countries with a poor education system (like in Africa) would have a low IQ score?

[@Applecoco520]

@@harimauindia5775 Africa in itself is a continent, and I will not agree that the entire contient of Africa would have low IQ. But i get the point this commenter is making, and I get to what you are saying. So in the countries within Africa that are underdeveloped, yes IQ scores would be low based upon @siamsasean comment

[@harimauindia5775]

@@Applecoco520 I see

[@hedgefundphil]

the us military uses intelligence to determine which jobs are suitable for which people, the courts use iq tests to determine eligibility for social security, employers used iq tests long before the civil rights movement.

[@harimauindia5775]

@@hedgefundphil "test of skills and knowledge"

[@sisuguillam5109]

It's 2024. And Space Karen is behaving like South Africa is still the country he was born into? How... not surprising.

[@yomilala8929]

"Space Karen" 😂😂😂😂

[@kr-jj5kr]

Apartheid Clyde. Musk isn't superior to a frog.

[@seanthomxx2694]

He does bear a striking resemblance to Pepe

[@SolutionsWithin]

I’m Caucasian and I have never thought that people’s skin colour or culture is indicative whatsoever of how valuable someone is or how to treat them. All humans are equal and valuable and part of the one great spirit or source energy, Brahma, whatever you want to call it. Sorry for anyone who’s been mistreated. Sorry some people are ignorant and some are just mean. Musk, being rich and educated, ESPECIALLY should know better.

[@ethanedwards9339]

Race is more than skin colour. If it were just skin colour, many Indians would be black.

[@yawos9024]

Well, it was a philosophy manufactured to justify slavery and the looting of Africa despite their knowing that their ancestors before them saw the races as different but equal.

[@-in-the-meantime...]

Musk, Queen of the Subsidy

[@hipking23]

The welfare queen

[@user-je3zc3nj9c]

Call it what it really is the Welfare Queen!!!

[@yoni-in-BHAM]

I was a fan of his until I learned about his anti-Black agenda. Like him I'm also an "aspie" and was proud of his achievements despite his difficulties with autism. I know the discrimination people on the spectrum like us encounter. But unlike him I'm Black and deemed less than because of my race, so now I'm even less than in his eyes and in the eyes of people like him. I know that it shouldn't matter what these people think, but I can't help but think about the safety of not only myself, but of my family and of others who look like me... I'm afraid... And It really hurts..

[@galaxylucia1898]

Hey don’t be afraid. ❤Just continue to educate yourself (and others) around you so that you are well-informed and knowledgeable enough to PROTECT yourself. The Western world/society was not built for us, only seeks to profit off of us. You can thrive and be successful in whatever you endeavor. Just develop the skill of discernment, know that you are here to exist for a good reason, and do not ever believe for one second that any of this white supremacist B.S. is real. Decolonize your thinking, your reading, your knowledge. Once you do that you will never ever care about who thinks what about you. Good luck. ✊🏾

[@itoibo4208]

I missed what he said. I am interested in learning more about it.

[@r.lewisblake7793]

@@itoibo4208?

[@itoibo4208]

@@r.lewisblake7793 yes. I want to see his racism. People keep saying he is racist.

[@justinfleming5119]

@@itoibo4208 Also, what does an "anti-black agenda" look like? "Step one: Leave them alone to determine their own fates".

[@SashaCoCo]

Thank you Dr. Gustav for your integrity in revealing the actual studies and exposing when they're being misused. I hoped the younger generation would be more evolved and stop racism, bigotry, and prejudice - all of which are based on ignorance. Perpetuating white supremacy and racism represents a lower evolved soul. Eventually they will become the minority. I look forward to a more loving, inclusive world.

[@mnkwazi]

@cherylwallingford8016. I agree however part of the problem is our economic, political and social systems have winners and losers. In order for a "chosen" group to live better lives, others must be mistreated. Some of the bigotry is based on ignorance while most of it is calculated with a goal. For instance the concept of whiteness has changed in America. It has gone from solely Anglo Saxon to include the Irish and Italians, with the ultimate goal of demonizing people of African descent.

[@Devilnero1991]

Dr. Gustav didn't reveal anything. He said the biologically the races are not fixed, of course it is not! But we're talking about the unfixed races we have today. The whole argument is saying it out loud is wrong and that there are no things as black and white races(which I think is good), really!

[@marvin2678]

@@SashaCoCo ah so the great replacement IS real and ITS a good Thing

[@marvin2678]

@@SashaCoCo you Wish Other to become a minority but think youre the good Guy ?

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

Elon is so pathetic.

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

He's crying all the way, to the Bank. :-(

[@Jeni_Goci]

@@stevenmcgillivray9283 with your racist money...we see you. we'll be seeing you.

[@stevenmcgillivray9283]

For someone supposedly pathetic, he' thriving/

[@mytruecrimelibrary]

@@stevenmcgillivray9283 lol sure 😂

[@everettbr]

@@stevenmcgillivray9283 divorced, disowned by own kids, being treated for depression, bought a business with borrowed money and crashed its value by 70% - is that your definition of "thriving"?

[@l-pv5793]

That’s why he bought social media so he could be a racist in peace

[@MarsOpposition]

Elon's Musk is a stench that makes your eyes water!

[@yomilala8929]

A stench that washes your eyes away.

[@adcaptandumvulgus4252]

Oh wow I haven't heard about phrenology in ages, maybe Elon believes in the four humors too?

[@Zaio22ar]

For God sakes, the guy grew up in apartheid South Africa as privileged white boy. It's not like this is coming out of nowhere!

[@StephenFlynn-xl2fw]

Prejudice isn't science. Answers without questions are propaganda.

[@addammadd]

Aphorisms earn likes. Platitudes generate popularity.

[@futsk01]

Where's the question to this answer?

[@animal0mother]

Answers without questions are Jeopardy! clues.

[@WestOfEarth]

thing to remember is that when you engage someone on social media who's spreading these pseudo-scientific ideas, you may not convince that individual of their error, but there will be other readers who will see your response and be swayed by your argument.

[@writer9999]

Looks like he's just days away from appearing in Clinton, Obama birth location, (q)anon, COVID(oh no he already did that 😢), moon landing, truth about earth being podcasts 🎉

[@magnolia7212]

This is plain disgusting. It feels surreal.

[@NelsonMills-r3m]

What would you expect from a South African immigrant who was raised in a conservative, white-dominant environment?

[@vincentvega5686]

oh be careful there. elon is not a dirty immigrant. hes an ex-pat. elon believes the word "immigrant" is reserved for...

[@justinfleming5119]

I guess I would expect him to be into science and space and stuff.

[@MossyMozart]

@user-xs4kj7ou6h - I would expect him to be a thoughtful adult who can see with clear vision now, like I became after I left Florida. (I was born in the segregation era - segregated schools, restaurants, water fountains for crying out loud!).

[@justinfleming5119]

@@MossyMozart If you don't mind my asking, what city did you grow up in?

[@Rubyllim]

@@justinfleming5119 I live here, no, most of the rich kids are into agriculture and don't take kindly to values that veer off from what straight white ppl have like most conservatives, they're not interested in science, or the discovery science stands for, they have a conclusion, and they look for data that they can plant that conclusion onto, no matter how flawed it is

[@FoOtFoOt542]

Ever notice how the so-called-genius Elon seems to just express his superior intellect by retweeting stuff or purchasing naming rights to corporations?

[@angelainamarie9656]

I still need to go find this recording, but right after he took over the twit site someone recorded this 'spaces' conversation. These were their voices, not like a transcript. I hear some engineer make a point, I wasn't sure how valid it was or not, but Elon's response was so BREATHTAKINGLY arrogant it blew my mind. he first, stomped all over this guy, maligned his intelligence, called him stupid, called his ideas stupid, stomp stomp stomp. Then, without hardly a pause, he repeats the man's very statement almost word for word, smugly, as if he knew better all along. But, he just REPEATED what the other guy said. After viciously crapping all over said engineeer. THAT'S how he works. And it's not like that's out of pattern, he forced the real founder of Tesla out and demanded to be referred to as the founder. That's how he makes people think he's a 'genius.' He just waits for the real brains to solve a problem then elbows them out of the way and takes credit.

[@AudreyElliott-l7o]

​@@angelainamarie9656 The Anti Christ Spirit is operating in him: as well as his close billionaire associates.

[@kissit012]

Einstein (a man who blatantly stole from his mathematician wife) himself said “the key to genius is hiding your sources” aka stealing from others more brilliant than you

[@phasematerialsresearch9319]

Very well said. Now I’m waiting for people to realize he isn’t really fighting the woke mind virus but actually he’s CONTRIBUTING TO IT. No one who hates “woke” would go and breed three times with someone like Grimes. Clearly his relationship with Grimes is ALL ABOUT EUGENICS. Elon is evil and just as dangerous as his buddy Bill Gates.

[@PanEtRosa]

@@angelainamarie9656 let's not forget when he called an experienced rescue diver a pdf-file for gently suggesting that an active emergency wasn't the time for Elon to test one of his toys

[@SX41799]

Intelligence doesn't mean good sense. So many ignore this fact.

[@MastaBaitaAmbatukam]

how

[@F8Tributo]

​@@MastaBaitaAmbatukamFor example, one could be considered intelligent if they ammased $44 billion to buy a social media platform, then turned it into a vitriolic, negative cesspool and alienated the advertisers until 18 months later it's only worth $17 billion. Prime example of the difference between intelligence and common sense.

[@CaptainPlasma1117]

He is not intelligent, having money does not equate genius.

[@thewiseowl8804]

@@CaptainPlasma1117He is intelligent.

[@shadrachemmanuel1720]

Wealth Creation doesn't mean intelligence.

[@audreyquinn73]

Elon Musk was raised in South Africa and grew up with apartheid. It does not surprise that he harbours racial discrimination against black people in that case, albeit it also does not excuse his racism. What really scares me is how quickly his interest and support of a racist tweet can promote that message to millions of followers.

[@phasematerialsresearch9319]

The wild thing is that even Trump doesn’t take it as far as Elon when it comes to racism. Trump is tame compared to him, let that sink in.

[@marvin2678]

@@audreyquinn73 racist IS anything you font like

[@johnhall3683]

I keep telling y’all he’s a rich white man from South Africa.. It’s only a matter of time before his racist past catches up with him…🤔 Acting like he is over here, I can only imagine how he was behaving over there in South Africa!

[@kaydee9358]

Elon is the poster boy for why no one should be allowed to be a billionaire. No one person should have this level of influence over the entire society. I hope people use their critical thinking skills to not buy into his garbage.

[@gabriellefagan1014]

This from the guy who called the rescuers of those kids trapped in a cave in Thailand peodofiles, all because he wasn't given the chance to "save" them

[@gonebabygone4116]

Europeans and Blacks were largely separate for a long time. Slavery led to the mixing of blacks and Caucasians in the U.S. We see hybrid vigor demonstrated in almost every sports team in the country. The fact that we don't see the same in board rooms isn't proof of black inferiority, it's pretty obviously structural racism at work. If the playing field were level, some of us with parents from different continents would rise to the top in every endeavor. It's painful to watch this nonsense spread; our demographic choices were made two generations ago, and these people who "want my country back" could best contribute by no longer voting against their own interests.

[@rinkohorowitz]

How does hybrid vigor occur in sports?

[@gonebabygone4116]

@@rinkohorowitz In my tribe we have these things called "Google" and "ChatGPT". You pose a question, you get an answer. Plants show hybrid vigor as do animals. Despite our self-awareness, we are, all of us, just large, clever apes, so the same rules apply.

[@hypergraphic]

I'm not sold on structural racism being the reason for the outcome gap these days. I'd say fatherless homes is a much bigger factor.

[@gonebabygone4116]

@@hypergraphic And those are a result of structural racism in the first place.

[@TheBoogerJames]

Modern diversity is about color and gender and less about ideas. Obama was a (half) black guy but was no different in his political philosophy than Biden or Clinton. Many of these boards and CEOs you speak of are more than happy to have non-whites as long as they tow the company line.

[@Jagger-Tyr_13]

Im so thankful for people like Margaret Mead who basically ended eugenics teachings in anthropology. Makes me proud to be a student of the craft.

[@everyones.shadow]

IQ and other tests only test your ability to complete that kind of test. Imagine a Canadian sitting a test in India during summer when the test is in Indian standard English.

[@marvin2678]

Such porn excuses

[@RileEren]

​@@marvin2678why

[@lylewalker5681]

It’s important to note that he’s been doing great replacement, white genocide talk for years. It isn’t something that he started doing in the last year or two. I really, really push back on people who said he’s recently become radicalized. He’s not become radicalized, he’s just decided to give up the game where he was pretending to be a decent human being.

[@mariusg8824]

He got his kids with genetic purity in mind. And it made him crazy, that they didn't turn out as planned. He carefully avoids to say it out loud, but he totally buys into race theory.

[@DeutschlandDenDeutschen1848]

The replacement of white peoples due to low domestic birth rates and high rates of immigration is a fact. Wether you want to call it "The Great Replacement" and what you see as the causes behind it is a different story. I think it's fair to say that citizens who want to stop this trend are shamed by the media and barred from political participation in left majority environments and because of that white people will most likely cease to exist for the most part in the next 200 years.

[@thewiseowl8804]

I don’t buy that. The internet can and will radicalize anybody.

[@RileEren]

​@@mariusg8824who+

[@marvin2678]

@@lylewalker5681 prove him wrong then

[@Maria-EU]

The reason I want to vomit every time I see a tesla on the streets

[@youteacher78]

You can take the emeraldmine heir out of South African apartheid but you can't take South African apartheid out of the emeraldmine heir.

[@yomilala8929]

Wiser words have never been said

[@olzt100]

The first laughable criteria is that IQ does not measure inteligence. It measures culture more than one's ability to think. And because intelligence has so many qualities, it cannot be quantified in one general test. It's like going on Jeopardy and being the winner then playing a Chess master and getting destroyed. The memorization used on Jeopardy will not be a strong talent to beat a Chess master.

[@angelainamarie9656]

We studied one of the early Army 'IQ" tests in my sociology class. It included questions about what was in such-and-so book of the Bible, as if every American should be able to easily recall that. I was like, as an atheist, I would have simply failed this 'intelligence' test. it is indeed, more a 'socialization' test. Can't avoid being one.

[@RichardHarlos]

_"The first laughable criteria is that IQ does not measure intelligence. It measures culture more than one's ability to think. And because intelligence has so many qualities, it cannot be quantified in one general test."_ You're close, but not quite there. IQ (intelligence quotient) tests are designed to measure certain cognitive abilities and skills, such as: 1. Fluid reasoning - The ability to think logically, identify patterns, and solve problems in novel situations. 2. Knowledge - Acquired knowledge from education and exposure to information. 3. Quantitative reasoning - The ability to understand and solve mathematical and numerical problems. 4. Visual-spatial processing - The ability to analyze and process visual details and spatial relationships. 5. Working memory - The ability to temporarily store and manipulate information in the mind. It's true that IQ tests have limitations and don't measure all aspects of human intelligence. Factors like emotional intelligence, creativity, wisdom, and practical skills are not fully captured by IQ scores. Additionally, IQ can be influenced by education, socioeconomic status, and cultural factors. While IQ scores can provide an estimate of certain cognitive abilities, they should not be taken as a definitive or comprehensive measure of one's overall intelligence or potential for success in life.

[@olzt100]

@@RichardHarlos I am not close. I am accurate. Why? Because intelligence is an opinion. And as an opinion, people will place value on that opinion. Because we did not create anything that has intelligence all our values and statements on intelligence are subjective. We can't truly define something we do not fully understand. Western culture has decieved us on our own capabilities and understanding.

[@RichardHarlos]

@@olzt100 You are not accurate. You are partially accurate. So again, you're close. Repeating your previous narrative doesn't constitute an argument from evidence. It's just a rant.

[@olzt100]

@@RichardHarlos No. I am acurate and you are reading a designed defintion that is programming you to be wrong. Let's try this as proof. We discover two civiliations in outer space. Both have advanced technologies above our own. How do we determine which civilization is more intelligent? Some type of awkward test? No. It's going to be by some subjective judgement comparing it to the base knowledge we posssess. But how good is our own base knowledge if they have advanced technologies? End of debate. Western culture has dumbed you down, not made you smarter.

[@k.c1126]

This is why it's so important to teach people how to interpret charts and statistics and help them understand how data can be manipulated.

[@leventehorvath8562]

Indeed! And it would have been nice for the Mother Jones people to actually argue against the facts presented by eyeslasho, because as it stands, they got nothing on him, except emotional rethoric.

[@jacksmith-mu3ee]

​@@leventehorvath8562 that's bcz musk is wrong

[@leventehorvath8562]

@@jacksmith-mu3ee Wrong about what?

[@guest_4416]

​@@leventehorvath8562why waste time spending 30 minutes to debunk fake news that was created in 30 seconds. It's a losing battle

[@leventehorvath8562]

@@guest_4416 Because otherwise you don't get to call it fake news in the first place.

[@ryanreedgibson]

In 2022 I was going to buy three Tesla cars for Christmas. Elon sent one tweet that left me saying to myself wtf. We went with Toyota and Lexus instead. The guy is a total tool.

[@rinkohorowitz]

Good choice. He is selling Tesla stock like crazy. You’re better off buying a Toyota or a Chinese EV. Tesla uses the same parts as the aforementioned anyway.

[@justinhearst]

Good. Better quality cars anyway.

[@ryanreedgibson]

@@rinkohorowitz I won't touch anything in China anymore. It's time we all start buying from those who are not seeking growth with the purpose of destroying us. All the workstations and electronics in my home are made no closer than South Korea, Maylasia, Taiwan or Japan. Yes, they're more expensive but it's a small price to pay for not supporting the CCP. Yes, I do know that the Toyota wire harnesses and relays are made in China, but I couldn't get around that.

[@dreamersdisease2481]

What if every car company made a tweet that left you saying WTF to yourself?

[@letmetranslate4249]

I sadly bought one before knowing who he was 😞

[@zam6877]

I first discovered that Elon had gone down this dark road... ...when he said needed to increase the birth rate I thought "no we need to improve access to quality of education to brown and bl... ooooh!"

[@colesonafrank5329]

Yep. That he effectively ignores (or rather chooses to censor his actual beliefs regarding) the majority of Earth's human population while encouraging increased reproduction in predominantly white nations seems like positive evidentiary proof of his fundamental racism. It's unfortunate that this taints everything he does, undermining the essential paradigm shifting engineering accomplishments that should otherwise be embraced and supported by liberals and progressives who now revile his companies despite their missions and accomplishments putting most long established, biosphere-destroying, profiteering corporations to shame.

[@Emiliapocalypse]

“No not _their_ birth rate!!!” -Musk

[@leonfrancis3418]

You get it now, lol.

[@DeutschlandDenDeutschen1848]

What's wrong with white people not wanting to go extinct? And just like with high IQ it's acutally east Asians that are at the top here and not white people . South Korea and Taiwan our going to demographically implode if they don't do anything about their birth rates. China is shrinking and Indias demographic turn has already begun. And this is not the solution to "overpopulation", at this rate it's a huge economic problem because it creates a very overaged society.

[@ethanedwards9339]

Why? They're birthrates are fine. Mostly whites and Asians need to improve their birthrates.

[@elbruces]

He's gradually painting himself in a corner. The more he Tweets, the less people want to hear from him.

[@dominicg4130]

Remember his roots. It is steeped in Apartheid ideology. Never mind that his family were victims of a robbery during that era. You reap what you sow.

[@fredamariebrown4727]

When will people STOP buying Teslas???

[@phillyphil1513]

irk...? the "Monster" that is Elon didn't create himself. sadly people are weak AF in their thinking and unable to see past the tip of their noses regarding the LARGER EFFECTS of their "addictions" and their Consumer Behavior.

[@ssehe2007]

Already begun

[@DrScryptex]

More importantly, when are they going to kick him out of Tesla and Space X?

[@stefanjepp6612]

Teslas are not bad products! Musk is a real danger for the image of a good product! Which electric car would you buy?

[@nightraven2975]

​@stefanjepp6612 the Chinese brand BYD Auto Co., Ltd. With their slogan, Build Your Dreams are cheap, reliable, and actually easy on the eyes. They recently out sold Tesla I think. I'd rather them over the mid Tesla or the over priced European EVs.

[@mdog86]

Honestly can't believe I was ever a fan of him, it's embarrassing to think about now. He's such an awful, horrible human being.

[@kgilliagorilla2761]

Dropped my twitter account when Elon bought it. Don’t miss it at all. Just think if everyone that can’t stand the guy signed off for good. They would eat themselves.

[@vincentvega5686]

and don't ever all it X. keep calling it twitter. that should piss elon off lol

[@MamaKatt]

deleted my account when he purchased it also. Proof money cant buy class.

[@RileEren]

​@@MamaKattwhy

[@NCause]

Yet all the black conservatives will still defend him and others on the right and subscribe to this ignorance

[@xbabu142x]

I just don't understand educated black conservatives even being ok with this. Like please have some respect for your degree and education at least even if you have none for yourself. If they could with a straight back say they did it for the money I would totally respect that as I am not black, but I do understand the need to provide for my family. But like what is the purpose of saying a dude who wants to rub your head to see if you're smart but is too dumb to conclude the head rub action from the science shown, is good for saying he is of a higher intellect than you.

[@AdastraRecordings]

Of course Musk is a eugenicist, it makes total sense.

[@claudiushedrington752]

And yet , after hearing this black people will go out in "droves ", to buy either a tesla or get on the x platform. Leave that man alone ! He has nothing of value , period !🧐

[@leonfrancis3418]

The average Tesla buyer is a middle aged affluent whlte male. We aren't buying his cars in droves. We do buy Mercedes in droves, though.

[@zinjanthropus322]

Black X is the most fun place online.

[@earnthis1]

Elon bows to Twitter user Cat Turd. That's where Elon is at these days.

[@weirdarthistorian]

I've noticed that a lot of right-wing influencers are picking up the same pssudoscience again. They feel empowered by him. As a historian, it makes me furious that this problematic mindset and theories are still popular, and people haven't learned anything from history at all.

[@marvin2678]

@@weirdarthistorian Well mostly because people cant prove Them wrong

[@RichardDoker-op6py]

Elon knows how to play the game, he's from colonial south africa.

[@pfitz4881]

Elon has let the power that comes with money go to his child like mentality. Sounds a lot like the orange man, doesn't he.

[@phasematerialsresearch9319]

He’s actually worse than Trump. Even Trump isn’t as racist and conniving as Elon Musk. People will soon see that Musk is going to become even worse than Bill Gates.

[@NoeA22]

Racism is a complex and deeply rooted issue, and psychology plays a significant role in understanding the motivations behind it. Often, individuals who hold racist beliefs, particularly among white racists, are those who feel a sense of underachievement compared to their peers. This can lead to an inferiority complex, where they struggle to reconcile their self-worth with their perceived shortcomings. To cope with this dissonance, they may adopt the belief that their race inherently makes them superior, using it as a psychological crutch to mask their insecurities and inadequacies. This need to bolster their self-esteem by demeaning others is a defense mechanism, allowing them to avoid confronting their own failures. However, this behavior does not truly elevate their status; instead, it reflects a deep-seated vulnerability and a lack of self-acceptance. In reality, the act of perpetuating racist ideologies is a sad testament to their inability to thrive on their own merits, revealing more about their inner turmoil than any supposed racial superiority.

[@MrMelonsz]

A fantastic piece of writing! Thank you for delving into the psychology behind this! Psychology is the best place to look for a person’s motivation in my opinion.

[@marvin2678]

@@NoeA22 or they Just Look at the Last and See that every single invention of importance was done whites...which was done by SUB saharns ?

[@arcsaber1127]

The real problem isn't that some people are less intellectual than others. The real problem is that some people mistreat and denigrate others for their (real or perceived) lack of intelligence

[@lesliepropheter5040]

Musk is from South Africa and hangs out with Trump - yeah, not a surprise

[@latenightlogic]

If an account says ‘radical centrist’ you run for the hills.

[@marvin2678]

Why ?

[@hazardousjazzgasm129]

@@marvin2678 found another one

[@yore5]

@@marvin2678they’re almost always far-right grifters that get a boner thinking about a second civil war

[@nathaneastman5556]

​@@marvin2678 Because it's really an alt right account

[@marvin2678]

@@nathaneastman5556 whats wrong with thag

[@patrickmaline4258]

fun fact about I.Q. tests: their inventor announced that they were culturally biased when he introduced them. ☮️❤️

[@hazardousjazzgasm129]

shhhhh, stop using facts to disrupt their narrative, you're hurting their fee-fees

[@flyflybaby2723]

The fact that people use charts, graphs, quotes - often from peer-reviewed and rejected papers - to manipulate and convince other people is *so so true!*

[@lesliepropheter5040]

But he’s racist from misinterpreting the biblical text and going from there - aka Trump

[@epikbearcz7962]

@@lesliepropheter5040 huh ?

[@Antonio-op6iw]

And black folks breaking their necks to buy his cars… 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

[@RileEren]

So

[@Gardor]

The primary confusion stems from a misunderstanding of what IQ actually measures. It doesn't gauge absolute intelligence but rather relative cognitive ability within a specific group. Since IQ tests are standardized around Western culture and education systems, migrants and individuals from non-Western backgrounds often score lower due to cultural and systemic biases. Moreover, those facing barriers within the Western education system tend to perform worse as well. To get a more accurate measure of cognitive potential, it's crucial to control for at least two factors: cultural background and educational environment. Therefore meaningful comparisons can only be made with second- or third-generation migrants or people facing similar educational environments.

[@angelainamarie9656]

This guy is such a net negative to our society.

[@TheAlchemist1089]

SpaceX Tesla PayPal Don't say net negative

[@ordavis]

@@TheAlchemist1089 He's not a net negative!!!!! Think of the corporations he made!!! He gave you more things to consume!!! This absolves him of spreading fascist propaganda to millions!!!

[@ajatathemu]

Neo social Darwinism makes a comeback

[@erasto-xidig]

Elon Mask is the richest clown alive right now

[@AJPemberton]

What is sad is the willing audience [people like Musk find. It seems there will always be people who are eager to put others down. Imagine living a life where the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making others feel worse. The only way you can feel worthwhile is by saying others are worthless. Often seems coupled with an inability to express any emotion other than anger.

[@teresajohansen2589]

Thank you

[@StopWhining491]

When you cherry-pick your data, you can probably "prove" anything. That's not science.

[@catherinepowell1049]

deport musk

[@Morning404]

I agree.

[@MamaKatt]

Best idea I have heard in a very long time.

[@rinkohorowitz]

Yes.

[@yomilala8929]

I'm not even American but I agree 💋💅🏾

[@djgulston]

No, thanks! We don't want him back in South Africa. Send him to Antarctica.

[@EANDM71]

I need Black people to wake up on this.

[@TheNTDote]

They're not just racist against Blacks. If you see the amount of Racisms Indians get on Twitter is more INSANITY.

[@ZodyZody]

I'm happy to see such excellent coverage of this topic - very well done!

[@Framos16]

Exactly! He's horrible

[@zegermanscientist2667]

Funny thing is: genetic variation in Africa is higher than anywhere else. There is actually no such thing as "a black person".

[@marvin2678]

Yet africa IS all underdevolped

[@OliviaFranks219]

@@marvin2678your point is?

[@Griot-Guild]

It actually isn't ​@@marvin2678

[@jj1106]

@@marvin2678Yea, explain yourself please.

[@marvin2678]

@@jj1106 Well my Point IS despite all the effort by the West agrica IS a shithole

[@jFNY_]

It's also good to remember that IQs were designed from the outset to be inherently racist, and that played into early eugenicist rhetoric because proponents of eugenics would often advocate for exterminating black people on the basis of they had lower IQ scores, directly ignoring that the IQ system was stacked against them and did not take into account systemic racism, the impact of slavery, how hard it was to get a good education in southern states for black people, especially due to the combined impacts of Jim Crow laws, systemic racism, post world war two redlining, and segregation

[@crush3095]

my life is so blessed because my very first friend ever, before first grade was by black neighbor, same age as me really hard to develop ignorant misconstruals about black people, when he was practically my brother my entire childhood and now my whole life I don't have this troubling fictional problem, which is really a psychological race complex

[@bjb7587]

Musk is not the only high profile person spreading racist tropes. An even more successful racist - Donald Trump.

[@nstix2009xitsn]

@bjb7587 Another racist liar is heard from.

[@sunset1952]

I mean the only reason he is rich, is because he benefited from the apartheid in South Africa. His grandfather moved to Africa to exploit our colonized continent.

[@xbabu142x]

Even recent he's forgetting the black scientist who innovated all of fiber optics in the last decade that allows all his stuff to work... What an ignoramus the dude is.

[@flightographist]

Ya, I'm a biologist and we know there is no such thing as race. Phenotype is the term to describe the differences between people from different areas of the globe. Brief periods of reproductive isolation lead to differences in the populations but IQ isn't necessarily one of those characteristics. But- it can be in populations exposed to toxic environmental variables...say like lead in paint in historically impoverished neighborhoods, methyl mercury contamination in regions with pulp and paper production ( first nations reserves for example). Current research indicates a possible causal relationship between air pollution ( like in urban areas) and reductions in intelligence.

[@wartgin]

Exactly

[@marolatv618]

IQ testing is a flawed metric for determining intelligence. The IQ test can only be 'passed' or 'excelled' by someone who is familiar with the subject matter in the test and the language of the test. People who share the same background as the person who made the test would obviously score higher marks. Intelligence is learned through your environment. We learn what we need to navigate the places and spaces that we frequent. A child from the inner city may be more adept at reading faces to determine friend or foe. They may know their neighborhood back-to-front to know where to hide if a strange person is chasing them. They may know the best way to fend off a rabid dog. This intelligence is more useful to them than pointing out a divan from a commode whilst identifying the colloquial names couch and toilet.

[@marvin2678]

Ah so Hes right ?

[@wartgin]

@@marvin2678 Which he were you referring to?

[@gnostic268]

Nope. First Nations and all Indigenous people in North America don't have a phenotype. There are some similarities to Indigenous people prior to colonization but tribes don't require a member to adhere to a specific phenotype to be an enrolled member. They go by involvement in tribal culture, language, ceremonial knowledge and participation in their community. Phenotypes are now outdated

[@lulurama3010]

So people are shocked a white man who was born and grow up in south Africa during apartheid and whos family benefited for apartheid has these types of ideas or supports them okay.

[@MrBaddiss27]

Wonder why Nigerians are voted the smartest people in the world

[@inulomar1776]

So many people hear the dog whistle and don't understand who is using the whistle and their ulterior motives behind the dog whistle, you can't fix stupid, you can only work around it

[@youthrevisitedagain]

The only thing musk has going for him is he has brilliant people working for him. He’s not one of them.

[@Rsysas]

Yes. Thank you. I’m sick of people acting like they don’t know what he is about.

[@lanitagrice7644]

IQ test validity was debunked soooo long ago that I'm amazed anyone believes in them. (btw, my own IQ score was the highest in my age level at more than one school I attended, so I'm not speaking from sour grapes).

[@marvin2678]

@@lanitagrice7644 Sure it Just a coincidence that all the countries with Low iq suck