Legacy media outlets reported with insinuations of “racism” on Elon Musk’s accusations of “the media” and “elite colleges and high schools” being “racist” against white and Asian people. His tweets came in reply to the controversy surrounding Scott Adam’s remarks last Wednesday when he concluded that half of black people are “racists.”
The controversy began with a Rasmussen poll that asked black people “Do you agree or disagree with the statement ‘it’s okay to be white’?” The results showed that 46 percent of the black respondents didn’t agree.
The purpose was to use a harmless statement to “trigger” anti-racism fanatics, thus exposing them as (anti-white) racists themselves. The slogan was later embraced by white supremacists, thus giving the statement an extremist connotation. As such, the slogan is laden with two contrasting meanings: it’s literal meaning and its political affiliation. This important distinction was not made very clear by the poll itself.
Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert cartoon, interpreted the polling results as proof that half of Black Americans hate Whites.
“That actually … That’s like a real poll,” Adams replied, somewhat horrified. “If nearly half of black people are not okay with white people, according to this poll,” Adams said, “that’s a hate group. And I don’t want anything to do with them.”
Adams went on: “Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people, because there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.” He said he was no longer going to try to be helpful to black America. “I’ve been doing it all my life and the only outcome is I get called a racist.” Adams concluded by adding that he was sick of seeing, almost on a daily basis, videos on social media of “Black Americans beating up non-black citizens.”
Another tweet read: “Adam’s comments weren’t good. But there’s an element of truth to this […] it’s complicated. We were on the right path to colorblindness and need to return to it.” To which Musk replied: “Exactly.”
Musk called the media reporting of police violence “very disproportionate to promote a false narrative.” He further acknowledged a tweet showing a statistical correlation between increased media focus on “racism” and declining race relations.
Musk has been accused of racism and being right-wing after he lifted speech restrictions on Twitter, and for his outspoken opposition to what he calls “the woke mind virus.”
“Systemic racism requires not only widespread bigotry to be held within a group but also a structural component that allows discrimination and oppression to be imposed on a minority because of an advantage of access and power. A white billionaire from South Africa who recently lost a high profile racial discrimination case may not be in the best position to offer counsel.”
