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X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)

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IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.

To be clear: Musk endorsed a tweet which used a false antisemitic conspiracy theory to tell people why "Hitler was right"

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[-] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago

I mean, it's not a spell, it's a sentence. If reading it will make it spread, as in more people will agree and support it, the problem is already there.

[+] [email protected] -31 points 10 months ago

Nazi recruitment actually works that way. They used to even pay people to quote-tweet them with a condemnation in order to get more recruits.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

I'm a Jew. I don't know whether you are or not. But in my experience, the best thing to do with antisemites is to show the world who they are.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Also, If someone is accusing someone else of antisemitism I expect evidence. If they're not prepared to provide it, it's just gossip.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

No. Hydrogen peroxide is the best disinfectant. Beats sunlight by a long long margin.

Bleaching Nazis on the internet is basically what OP is calling for, and by your own analogy, they’re right.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

You are correct... but I don't believe that automatically means we should quote them. We can speak over them.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Sorry for the late answer. My point is that the problem is upstream to the issue of quoting/non quoting. A person who gets convinced by a nazi/antisemitic slogan is already a problem on itself. The quote is one of the N ways that person can be exposed to ideas that underneath they already support, and I don't think this is a good reason to change the way that we talk about some issues. In other words, even if someone "gets recruited" by the quote, this is merely surfacing the problem, it's not creating it.

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