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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Siva Vaidhyanathan

Elon Musk’s defense of Scott Adams shows why he is misguided and dangerous

‘Musk is both a celebrity who can focus the world’s attention on a fringe question with just a Tweet and an employer of thousands of people he can actually affect with his company’s policies and practices.’
‘Musk is both a celebrity who can focus the world’s attention on a fringe question with just a Tweet and an employer of thousands of people he can actually affect with his company’s policies and practices.’ Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

Even a cursory exploration of race and racism around the world would yield the conclusion that there is nothing simple about it. Racial identity and race-based oppression emerge, morph and erode in different ways in different parts of the world.

But leave it to Elon Musk to try to convince you that racism is simple and straightforward. Musk will tell you what is and is not “racist”. And he will explain to you which institutions are racist and to whom.

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