On Sunday, Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter, accuss “the media” and “elite colleges and high schools” of being “racist”. This is against white and Asian people without providing evidence.
Elon Musk made his remarks on Twitter, where he has nearly 130 million followers. In response to news that media outlets across the country have decided to pull the comic strip “Dilbert” from syndication. After its creator, Scott Adams, delivered a racist tirade in a video posted on his YouTube channel last week.
In the video, Adams discussed a Rasmussen Reports poll that found 26% of Black respondents disagreed with the statement, It’s OK to be white. The phrase mentione in their poll has been designate a “hate slogan” by the Anti-Defamation League. Adams referred to Black people who disagreed with the phrase as a “hate group” in his video.
Adams also stated that he chose to live in a community where there were few or no Black people. Then advised his white viewers to “get the hell away from Black people,” stating that he didn’t “want to have anything to do with them.”
Adams’ video was release during Black History Month in the United States, establish in 1976 by President Gerald Ford as a commemoration period.
Among the news outlets that dropped “Dilbert” were The Los Angeles Times, The Oregonian, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Washington Post and USA Today.
The track record of Musk In response to Musk’s tweets, Brian Levin. A civil rights attorney and the director of California State University’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, stated:
“Systemic racism necessitates not only widespread bigotry within a group but also a structural component. That allows discrimination and oppression to be impose on a minority due to an advantage of access and power. A white South African billionaire who recently lost a high-profile racial discrimination case may not be the best person to offer advice.”