https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/402810
“Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming,” Musk posted Thursday, adding laughing-face emojis.
His post earned reprobation from Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, a group that took criticism days earlier for declaring that Musk’s hand gesture was not a Nazi symbol.
“We’ve said it hundreds of times before and we will say it again: the Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it,” Greenblatt wrote on X. Addressing Musk, he added, “The Holocaust is not a joke.”
Greenblatt’s own account had remained silent earlier in the week after Musk’s hand gesture; he’d also refrained from commenting on Musk during a panel on antisemitism earlier Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. An ADL spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about why Thursday’s post was denounced when the gesture wasn’t.
Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, denounced Musk’s jokes in stronger terms.
“Wordplay about Nazis isn’t funny. It isn’t clever. And it’s dangerous,” Deutch wrote on X. Addressing Musk, he added, “However you feel about the accusations being made against you, this is absolutely the wrong response. Nazi-themed ‘jokes’ are offensive and harmful. Don’t belittle the seriousness of the Holocaust; you give cover to those who seek to do the same.”
Linda Yaccarino, X’s CEO, also responded to Musk’s jokes — with a laughing-face emoji. Yaccarino, who was hired by Musk, has pledged to curb antisemitism on the platform in the past.
Funny that you expect people to get your own jokes but you fail to understand others jokes
ReplyDeleteMaking fun of the Nazis is a common thing especially in England
https://youtu.be/vlmGknvr_Pg?si=hP1mK4ioc3_0tE2T
Also Charlie Chaplin made a comedy which was poking fun at them.
Even the Jewish comedians Mel brooks and woody Allen would make fun and use their names as a form of mockery
When I was a child, my father didn't like me watching Hogan's Heroes. Portraying the Nazis, y"sh, as buffoons, sometimes lovable ones, was crossing a line. They were monsters and could only be depicted that way.
ReplyDeleteMany, many years later I learned that amongst the cast were (a) an Austrian Jew who fled Austria just before the war (b) an American Jew who fought the Nazis (c) a Holocaust survivor and (d) a German Jew who desperately wanted to mock his former oppressors.
Musk's statement is, much to your lack of comprehension, brilliant. He's looked at people like you and said "You moron, it wasn't a Nazi salute and your desperation to slag me no matter what I do makes you look idiotic so that's how I'll treat you."
Greenblatt wasn't nearly at outrages when BLM(tm) was burning down Jewish businesses and synagogues. You weren't displaying pictures of students and Arabs doing an actual Seig Heil over the last 15 months. But Musk waves in the ear with his right hand and you go apopleptic. You deserve the ridicule.