Union rages after Elon Musk shares X put up that ‘Hitler didn’t homicide thousands and thousands, public sector staff did’ | EUROtoday

Workers blasted DOGE hatchet man Elon Musk Thursday after he reposted a startling message on X declaring that “Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Public sector employees did.”

Lee Saunders, union president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees of the AFL-CIO, fired off a livid response saying: “America’s public service workers — our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians — chose making our communities safe, healthy and strong over getting rich. They are not, as the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers.”

He added: “Elon Musk and the billionaires in this administration have no idea what real people go through every day. That’s why he’s so willing to take a chainsaw to people’s jobs, Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare.”

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It was solely the most recent of Musk’s disturbing cases of sidling as much as Hitler as he appeared to excuse the actions of the architect of the Holocaust that murdered 6 million Jews and others to select on public staff, whose jobs he has lower by the hundreds since Donald Trump took workplace.

Ironically, he retweeted the Hitler put up simply days after the Trump administration introduced it was withholding some $4 million in grants and contracts from Columbia University for failing to squelch pro-Gaza protests on the expense of Jewish college students, indicating the demonstrations had been antisemitic.

Some 150 of pro-Palestinian protesters, lots of them Jewish, poured into Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan Thursday to help former Columbia Palestinian scholar Mahmoud Kahil, who was arrested for for organizing a campus demonstration in protection of Gaza.

“Not in our name,” learn the crimson t-shirts worn by the protesters, who shouted “Fight Nazis, not students.” Police arrested some 100 of the protesters. Khalil and different scholar on Thursday sued Columbia to dam congressional entry to scholar data because the college threatened to expel or droop campus protesters.

Musk, who was born and raised in apartheid South Africa, triggered an early uproar when he notoriously flashed what seemed to be a Nazi salute at an occasion marking the Inauguration in January.

He later mocked outrage over the gesture with a sequence of unfunny Nazi “puns” that includes Hitler’s high aides, together with: “Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!” and “Some people will Goebbels anything down!” He additionally wrote: “Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler! “

Musk concluded: “Bet you did nazi that coming,” with a laughing-to-tears emoji.

The head of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League ripped Musk’s Nazi “jokes,” noting that the Holocaust was a “singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it.”

Public staff had been hardly the one Americans shocked by Musk’s repost.