Elon Musk Shares Post Saying Hitler ‘Didn’t Murder Millions Of People’ | EUROtoday

Elon Musk, tasked earlier this 12 months with firing hundreds of federal employees throughout the United States, shared a submit that blamed “public sector employees” for mass killings dedicated underneath Adolf Hitler and different dictators.

The Thursday repost on Musk’s X account learn: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”

Along with Hitler, the submit referred to Josef Stalin, the communist dictator of the Soviet Union till 1953, and Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People’s Republic of China, who was liable for the deaths of tens of thousands and thousands by way of hunger and illness.

Musk later deleted the repost, however not earlier than X customers and others condemned Musk’s obvious protection of dictators liable for genocide and mass homicide.

“It is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to elevate the kind of rhetoric that serves to undermine the seriousness of these issues,” the Anti-Defamation League stated in a press release.

Musk’s disturbing repost focusing on public sector employees comes at a time when the billionaire ― now in control of the brand new, so-called Department of Government Efficiency ― has been liable for the firings of hundreds of federal employees. That contains employees in crucial positions on the National Weather Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and extra.

The ADL beforehand defended Musk when he appeared to present a Nazi salute at an inaugural celebration for President Donald Trump earlier this 12 months, saying Musk must be given “a bit of grace” or “perhaps even the benefit of the doubt.”

But the ADL modified its tune after Musk made jokes about his salute, together with a submit on X that stated partly: “Bet you did nazi that coming,” with a laughing emoji.

“Making inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust only serve to minimize the evil and inhumanity of Nazi crimes, denigrate the suffering of both victims and survivors and insult the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Shoah,” the ADL stated in a press release on the time.

Musk has beforehand endorsed antisemitic conspiracy theories, and has outright denied neo-Nazi violence. He can also be being sued for defamation by a current Jewish school graduate after Musk falsely stated the person was a federal agent pretending to be a neo-Nazi throughout a 2023 brawl.

“I certainly — I would say that I — you know, I’m guilty of many self-inflicted wounds,” Musk testified throughout a deposition within the case final 12 months.