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X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The conservatives were never normal. Not in 1930 and not today. Conservatives act polite and keep their hatred to themselves when it suits their best interests. But the moment a conservative feels safe to be themselves, the hate flows forth. Hitler did not create the nazis anymore than trump created the magats. They were always shitbags. They just needed someone to give them permission to be themselves.

Conservatives are natural predators of any group they see as vulnerable. They seek out weakness to exploit in normal people. Normal people do not do such things to others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we're not disagreeing but just using "normal" in different senses. I mean "not unusual" (half of the population leans conservative) while you mean something like "well adjusted" or "healthy".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fair enough. I do not see hate-based ideologies as "normal". Nearly every act of racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, or other bigotry committed in history has been committed by conservatives.

When we treat bigots as normal members of society, we normalize bigotry. They are not normal. They are harmful. There is simply no place in a modern society for conservatism.