Musk’s Dad: Elon’s Not Racist—He Was Friends With ‘Black Servants’​

https://www.thedailybeast.com/musks-dad-elons-not-racisthe-was-friends-with-black-servants/

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  2. Errol Musk is a pedophile that impregnated his stepdaughter twice.

  3. It kind of seems like the only thing the trickle down theory even works for is racism/hatred.

  4. Yeah… let’s trust a wealthy racist to define who’s is a racist.

  5. >Errol fondly recalled the South Africa of Elon’s childhood—during which the country was run by a white supremacist regime that kept its Black-majority population in poverty and under strict racial segregation

    “Friends” with “servants”

  8. Walz has been cooking. He needs to be de facto leader of the party.

  10. I keep having to check that these links don’t lead to The Onion.

  13. So no personal power imbalance in those “friendships” Errol? The family wouldn’t be where they are today without the apartheid regime. It allowed mediocracy to fall upward. I hope his “friends” were spitting in his food.

    On the other hand – loving Vivian in this article. She is an impressive young woman, despite her father, and wise **far** beyond her years:

    >*“I’m a leftist, not a Marxist,” she said. “I describe myself by the things that I personally believe in and the things that I feel are pretty common sense, if you think about it for more than two seconds… I believe in free health care. I believe food, shelter, and water are human rights. I believe that wealth inequality is one of the biggest problems of the United States right now, especially of our generation.”*

    >*She explained she is passionate about workers being “fairly compensated for the work that they do” because she, growing up the daughter of a multi-billionaire in Los Angeles, has seen wealth inequality at its extreme.*

    >*“I don’t feel like wealth should be hoarded by these mega-billionaires who are the top 1 percent, who only have their own interests at heart,” she said. “I’ve met some of these billionaires—they’re not very good people. I don’t think any of them are.”*

    As long as Elon deadnames his daughter, I’ll deadname Twitter.

  14. Does Elon have friends that don’t financially benefit from being around him.

  15. The statement is dumb enough on its own but add in the last word and it’s so incriminating of both father and son.

  16. I thought this was an onion article. Imagine my surprise.

  17. “Oh really? Do you recall a name of one of these ‘Friends’?”

  18. This is a common belief among racists, that if somebody is truly racist then they wouldn’t have any friends of that race.

    [Here is a speech from Himmler disproving and mocking this:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posen_speeches)

    >I am now referring to the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people. It’s one of those things that is easily said: ‘The Jewish people are being exterminated’, says every party member, ‘this is very obvious, it’s in our program, elimination of the Jews, extermination, we’re doing it, hah, a small matter.’ And then they turn up, the upstanding 80 million Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. They say the others are all swines, but this particular one is a splendid Jew. But none has observed it, endured it. Most of you here know what it means when 100 corpses lie next to each other, when there are 500 or when there are 1,000. To have endured this and at the same time to have remained a decent person — with exceptions due to human weaknesses — has made us tough, and is a glorious chapter that has not and will not be spoken of.

    I hate to say it, but Himmler had a point. These people are massive hypocrites. They openly support policies that would target their friends and family, and cry foul when it happens. Whenever somebody says “you’re one of the good ones”, they are subconsciously separating you from the group that they hate, without attempting to reevaluate their racist worldview.

    Hold these people to account. Point out their hypocrisy. They will either go full mask off, or make a genuine effort to change, and in my opinion either one is better.

  19. Friends with black servants. Hmm. I’m convinced that he’s not a racists. “He’s always been nice to you all colored folks.” Good grief

  20. Considering Errol Musk’s usual contempt for Elon and South African-ness, I’m assuming his statement was something along the lines of: “The little pansy wuss cried whenever I beat my slav—er, servants in front of him.”

  21. That entire family is the backwash of humanity’s gene pool.

  22. In 2017, Elon was the subject of a Rolling Stone cover story by the writer Neil Strauss. This time, his rage toward Errol was made clear.

    “He was such a terrible human being,” Mr. Musk told Mr. Strauss. “My dad will have a carefully thought-out plan of evil. He will plan evil.”

    He added: “Almost every crime you can possibly think of, he has done. Almost every evil thing you could possibly think of, he has done.”

    Mr. Strauss described tears streaming down Elon’s face as he said this.

  23. This is way worse than the “I can’t be racist, I have a black friend” copout.

  24. Friends with the servants as long as they didn’t get all “uppity”

  27. I’m tired of hearing from Elon. I’m tired of hearing from his mom. I’m tired of hearing from his dad. I need this fucker to stop being relevant.

  28. Well I guess we now know where musk got his complete lack of self awareness. 

  31. I’m not taking the word of a motherfucker who won’t pay taxes to governments headed by black people as he thinks they’re not “legitimate”.

    Also, a motherfucker who knocked up his stepdaughter on multiple occasions.

  32. That he would even say that shows how completely out of touch he is with the life of the people who worked as “servants” in his home. They weren’t his friends. They had to be there so that they could feed their families. They had to be nice to him or risk losing their job. There was a massive power imbalance.

  33. “I had this cleaning lady named Yolanda. Very wise. She practically raised me…”

  34. Errol Musk is a goddammed liar. He and his family greatly benefitted from apartheid, and remain bitter about it’s undoing to this day. The Musks are an Afrikaner family (white SA nationalists) who benefitted from apartheid, profitted from cheap and free black labor to work at their emerald mine, and have long documented white supremacist values, and a history of sympathy for the Nazis. Elon was named after a sci-fi book written by a Nazi. Don’t let these slimeballs fool you. They are not good people.

  36. Musk’s dad was literally a registered nazi why does his opinion matter

  37. “We had several black servants who were their friends,” Errol touted in an email to The Washington Post in response to questions about his son’s hostility toward diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

    Yup. That’s apparently his quote from an email to the Washington Post.

  38. Well, that takes the whole “i have black friends” line to a whole new low.

  39. There’s a kind of person out there who is really convinced by this.

    Spoiler alert: they’re racist themselves.

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