Elon Musk Is Spreading Centuries-Old Racist Pseudo-Science
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Racist pseudo-science is making a comeback thanks to Elon Musk. Recently, the tech billionaire has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X (formally known as Twitter), spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology to his audience of 176.3 million followers-a dynamic my colleague Garrison Hayes analyzes in his latest video for Mother Jones.
X, and before it Twitter, has a long-held reputation for being a breeding ground for white supremacy. Dating as far back as the 2016 election, these extremists have used the app to sow seeds of misinformation and spread racism.
Garrison zeroes in on a specific phenomenon: Musk is amplifying users who will incorporate cherry-picked data and misleading graphs into their argument as to why people of European descent are biologically superior. He shows how fringe accounts, like user @eyeslasho, experience a drastic jump in followers after Musk shares their tweets. The @eyeslasho account even thanked Musk for raising “awareness” in a thread last year. (Neither @eyeslasho nor Musk, via X, responded to Garrison’s request for an interview.)
“People are almost more susceptible to simpler charts with race and IQ than they are to the really complicated stuff,” Will Stancil, a lawyer and research fellow at the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, told Garrison in a video interview. He added: “This is the most basic statistical error in the book: Correlation does not equal causation.”
In 2022, just one week after Musk purchased Twitter, the Center for Countering Digital Hate -an online civil rights group- found that racial slurs against Black people had increased three times the year’s average, with homophobic and transphobic epithets also seeing a significant uptick, according to the Associated Press. More than a year later, Musk made headlines once again for tweeting racist dog whistles in a potential attempt to “woo” a recently fired Tucker Carlson. But, his new shift into sharing tech-bro-friendly bigotry carries its own unique set of consequences.
Garrison also talks to Dr. Sasha Gusev, a statistical geneticist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, who points out that because this racism is seemingly backed by scientific fact, people often lack the language to call out its problematic nature.
“There’s a kind of fusion between old-school gutter racism that everyone can recognize and this new-school Silicon Valley, data-driven analysis. And I think that this is very confusing to people,” said Gusev. “They don’t know what to do with it. They say, ‘Hey, there’s this thing that I recognize as ugly, and then there’s somebody posting a hundred charts that seem to support it.'”
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He is from South Africa, the home of apartheid.
Ok! and? I'm glad he got out of that ANC run 3rd World s---hole.
And he was raised during it. I never met a White South African who grew up there in the 70's or 80's who didn't have deeply ingrained sense of racism. Some could overcome it, most couldn't.
The number of times I've heard some variation of "You don't understand, the Blacks in Africa are animals, not like African Americans."
Not to mention that emerald mine in South Rhodesia.
It's not doing Rhodesia much good, they're a 3rd World Country.@@mikapeltokorpi7671
I know, the evil proponent's of esteemed Western Civilisation.@@jayfrank1913
Welp, I guess you can take the boy out of the Apartheid, but you can't take the Apartheid out of the boy. Smh
Exactly.
He's a boy in a man's body.
Acts like a child .
Thinks like a racist.
Apartheid Clyde moment
Ahem. I'm a whitey SAfrican.
Once I left SA in 1987 to a more open and more free society in Portugal, my eyes were opened. Musk is 2 years younger than me. He left SA at roughly the same age as me, after high school, but for Canada. I self-reflected and, even though I thought I was liberal, I could recognise I had many subconscious biases and prejudices. I changed.
Musk never self-reflected. If he even can is doubtful.
@@RomQxt That's awesome to hear, I wish more people self reflected like you did
Speak forth
Not sure how people forget that Dr. Evil is a rich white man who grew up in the South African apartheid state.
South Africa blossomed into a well-managed, orderly and prosperous society with the abolition of Apartheid.
@@justinfleming5119 Yes, but his thinking hasn't progressed and he clearly has apartheid views.
@@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066 😂 Clueless.
@@justinfleming5119 yes you are 😂
@@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066 Judeo-liberalism just wrecks things and moves on satisfied with their "success" without ever looking back.
And now it's doing a real genocide in Palestine while raging about "nazis" engaging in the democratic process at home.
Whaa?!! The South African emerald mine heir is racist?!! Shocking!! (drops monocle in champaign glass)
_"emerald mine heir..."_
You don't fact-check things. Noted.
@@RichardHarlos Today, Elon Musk refutes claims about his family owning an emerald mine, even though past statements suggest otherwise. Who doesn't check facts. It is you cultist.
@@RichardHarloscheck out the Futurism article "Elon Musk's Dad Says His Son's Whole Career Was Funded by That Emerald Mine"
The "fact checking" is not as clear cut as you would like it to be
@@howeffingridiculous Last 2 paragraphs proved the necessary context for your reference to Elon as an 'heir':
" 'Elon's main concern is not to appear to be a "trust fund kid" who got everything given to him on a plate," Errol told the tabloid, though did add that **the belief that his son was born with a silver - or, well, emerald - spoon in his mouth "isn't true."**
**"Elon took risks and worked like blazes to be where he is today.** The emeralds helped us through a very trying time in South Africa, when people were fleeing the country in droves, including his mother's whole family, and earning opportunities were at an all-time low," he continued. "That's all."
Now that the necessary context has been added, you see that he wasn't an 'heir' after all. Maybe you should read your sources with a critical mind _before_ telling other people to read them.
@@RichardHarlos you can split hairs about the use of the word heir but Elon was a beneficiary of that emerald wealth according to his father. It would seem Elon chose to deny this in order to keep his mythology intact. The fact checking is not clear cut and the main thrust of the argument remains intact no matter if Elon was a beneficiary or an inheritor. The argument being that Elon was not a self made wonder, he had the backing of his father's wealth
The X doesn't fall far from the swastika
I'm gonna use this one.
We should ban that symbol too. Anything to protect jewish feelings.
@@justinfleming5119
Anything to prevent the resurgence of hateful ideology and rhetoric.
@@1Dark.Paradise.Lost1 You mean White Nationalism or the ideology currently engaged in genocide? Do we ban the Magen David or the circle?
Omg🤣🤣
Elon is a poor excuse for a so called societal savior. He's a small angry child inside.
He's the kind of person who unironically thinks Patrick Bateman is the hero in Psycho and who will quote Plato's idea of meritocracy, seeing himself as the philosopher king. Saving the world isn't about giving everyone acces to clean drinking water or some lowly achievable shit like that, it's about restoring the "right order" in society, after which everything will be magically alright.
The first time I heard of a person described as having a small angry child inside was DJT.
They're a lot alike!
And extremely smart too
He seems to be a narcissist.
So I was recently late diagnosed as autistic and someone said “Hey, don’t feel bad. There are lots of successful autistic people. Take Elon Musk for example.” I said, “I actually wasn’t feeling bad about my diagnosis until you pointed that out, but thanks I guess? I really don’t want to belong to any group he is a member of.” 😂
😂 💯
Whoever said the Grand Musk Rat is autistic just insulted all autistic persons!
He is a Saffer, so don't feel so bad
Elon is not officially diagnosed, if I remember correctly. He claims to be autistic whenever it suits him.
also I late diagnosed autistic person and the one thing that pains me is Elon going after trans autistic people for no good reason other than to be a troll and rile up his base
Elon is so pathetic.
He's crying all the way, to the Bank. :-(
@@stevenmcgillivray9283 with your racist money...we see you. we'll be seeing you.
For someone supposedly pathetic, he' thriving/
@@stevenmcgillivray9283 lol sure 😂
@@stevenmcgillivray9283 divorced, disowned by own kids, being treated for depression, bought a business with borrowed money and crashed its value by 70% - is that your definition of "thriving"?
This reminds me of an anecdote I learned in a sociology course long ago. A scientist produced a paper showing that the aboriginal people of Australia did poorly compared to their white counterparts on some test that used simple geometric shapes to determine an aspect of intelligence. Later, another scientist repeated the test, but with photographs of rocks from areas the Aborigines were familiar with. The Aborigines crushed the test, doing far better than their counterparts. Scientists know their work has limitations and always seek to improve their methods. Non-scientists have a result and search for the data to support it.
ref: "There are 3 kinds of Lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and STATISTICS..." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Yeah, try give random Americans an IQ test written in Chinese and then see how much they score.
@@pansepot1490They have started basing their claims on “culturally fair IQ tests” that being those involving geometric shape patterns and not words.
Sounds a lot like poll tests.
Imagine being so insecure you have to lash out against "others" instead of addressing problems that affect you and your neighbors. As a Appalachian kid in the 80s and 90s, I would've never imagined that society would have a drastic social regression in the 2010s and 20s.
There is no progression, only regression.
@@JdTaylor-xf4bc You'd be a tadpole.
@@JdTaylor-xf4bc Not true. The future has a positive bias.
@@incognitotorpedo42 It sure does for those you aren't evil and wicked.
@@incognitotorpedo42How? Society always degenerates.
Apartheid Clyde. Musk isn't superior to a frog.
He does bear a striking resemblance to Pepe
Humanity has no need of billionaires.
@@artandarchitecture6399 Aw... how cute. Oh, did you mean 'undue'? And if you did, would you like to explain how anything anybody on the internet can say something that somehow 'oppresses' Elon Musk? You're not very bright.
So says you, poverty flats.
@@stevenmcgillivray9283 That's rich, coming from a guy still living with his parents.
We literally wouldn't have what we have or live the easy lives we live without them 🙄. This is ridiculous thinking, to say the least. If you truly feel that way, go live with a tribe and never look back.
Nope. They all seem to be the absolute worst human beings alive. Something about being that wealthy either takes their decency from them, or they never had it in the first place and that's how they got to be so filthy rich. They sure didn't EARN it.
Elon Musk grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid era. Those racist views were taught at an early age.
Yes and hard to unlearn
No excuse. They are also taught here in America.
I concur and support your assertion. I'm also white and I was born in SA 2 years before Musk so he and I are contemporaries. Born around 100kms apart in the same province. Except he was born into an affluent family and I was born into a blue-collar working class family, albeit extremely privileged in comparison to 75% of the country. He and I both left SA directly after high school.
I managed to unlearn many prejudices after being exposed to a more open and free society in Portugal. Why he didn't is probably because he refuses to self-reflect.
@@patriciagriffin1505 ...I left in 1987 and I am still unlearning but I believe it is possible!
@@RomQxt yes I definitely do.. I grew up during the Civil Rights movement where there was much hatred shown toward our black brown communities I took a different path of love and compassion so I know it’s possible just takes conscious effort and looking into ourselves
I went from ambivalent about Elon Musk when I knew very little about him... to unadulterated disgust after scratching the surface of who Elon Musk factually is and what he has undeniably said and done. The facade his percieved intelligence allows him to enjoy is an injustice all on it's own.
He's coming off like Henry Ford and Walt Disney before him
Conservatives like to smirk and observe somehow that the Left 'used to love' Elon, but the truth is, we just didn't know him as a person, we knew what his PR folks wanted everyone to know. Once he came out from behind his press releases and started talking himself, he revealed what an egotistical, hypersensitive, thin-skinned idiot he really was.
Same! And especially once he opened his mouth and spoke.
Exactly
I use to kinda like him, until the situation where those kid got trapped in a cave in Thailand. After he tried to push the use of his submarine and they told him it's not suitable for that. He got really angry, like a little kid who never heard the word "no".
Elon Musk grew up in South Africa with a father who was a true believer. Apple not falling far from yhe tree? I don't get what people see in this guy and why they're so enamored with him
Agree
Because they're also immature racists???
No. Money.
On behalf of my country South Africa I apologise about Elon Musk.
To add alacrity to idiocy, he went to school with me.
Some people are enamored of Elon because he set out to solve one of mankind's greatest problems, climate change, and did more than pretty much any other human on the planet. Has he been a dick lately? Yes. But he's also done some good in the world.
And black folks breaking their necks to buy his cars… 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Musk, Queen of the Subsidy
The welfare queen
Elon's Musk is a stench that makes your eyes water!
Man, if I looked like Elon Musk, I would be avoiding bringing back phrenology like it was the plaque.
it's funny because we all know he looks wasian
lol, but seriously, Musk isn't "bringing back phrenology". The phrenology stuff was courtesy of Mother Jones and was meant to make him look bad. Musk is an asshole, but I don't want to lie about him.
elon is bald. so insecure about it he had hair transplants.
Plague.
The irony of someone on the spectrum promoting eugenics is clearly lost on him. He's not nearly as smart as he markets himself to be.
I first discovered that Elon had gone down this dark road...
...when he said needed to increase the birth rate
I thought "no we need to improve access to quality of education to brown and bl... ooooh!"
Yep. That he effectively ignores (or rather chooses to censor his actual beliefs regarding) the majority of Earth's human population while encouraging increased reproduction in predominantly white nations seems like positive evidentiary proof of his fundamental racism. It's unfortunate that this taints everything he does, undermining the essential paradigm shifting engineering accomplishments that should otherwise be embraced and supported by liberals and progressives who now revile his companies despite their missions and accomplishments putting most long established, biosphere-destroying, profiteering corporations to shame.
“No not _their_ birth rate!!!” -Musk
You get it now, lol.
It's 2024. And Space Karen is behaving like South Africa is still the country he was born into? How... not surprising.
deport musk
I agree.
Best idea I have heard in a very long time.
Yes.
I was a fan of his until I learned about his anti-Black agenda. Like him I'm also an "aspie" and was proud of his achievements despite his difficulties with autism. I know the discrimination people on the spectrum like us encounter.
But unlike him I'm Black and deemed less than because of my race, so now I'm even less than in his eyes and in the eyes of people like him.
I know that it shouldn't matter what these people think, but I can't help but think about the safety of not only myself, but of my family and of others who look like me... I'm afraid...
And It really hurts..
Hey don’t be afraid. ❤Just continue to educate yourself (and others) around you so that you are well-informed and knowledgeable enough to PROTECT yourself.
The Western world/society was not built for us, only seeks to profit off of us. You can thrive and be successful in whatever you endeavor.
Just develop the skill of discernment, know that you are here to exist for a good reason, and do not ever believe for one second that any of this white supremacist B.S. is real. Decolonize your thinking, your reading, your knowledge. Once you do that you will never ever care about who thinks what about you.
Good luck. ✊🏾
I missed what he said. I am interested in learning more about it.
@@itoibo4208?
@@r.lewisblake7793 yes. I want to see his racism. People keep saying he is racist.
@@itoibo4208 Also, what does an "anti-black agenda" look like? "Step one: Leave them alone to determine their own fates".
Thank you Dr. Gustav for your integrity in revealing the actual studies and exposing when they're being misused. I hoped the younger generation would be more evolved and stop racism, bigotry, and prejudice - all of which are based on ignorance. Perpetuating white supremacy and racism represents a lower evolved soul. Eventually they will become the minority. I look forward to a more loving, inclusive world.
@cherylwallingford8016. I agree however part of the problem is our economic, political and social systems have winners and losers. In order for a "chosen" group to live better lives, others must be mistreated. Some of the bigotry is based on ignorance while most of it is calculated with a goal. For instance the concept of whiteness has changed in America. It has gone from solely Anglo Saxon to include the Irish and Italians, with the ultimate goal of demonizing people of African descent.
African, Indian, Aborigine, Latino, Asian, even had an ignorant racist tell a group of Native Americans to "go home"!
I am black but I haven’t seen any compelling evidence that all races have ,on average, equal IQ.
What would you expect from a South African immigrant who was raised in a conservative, white-dominant environment?
oh be careful there. elon is not a dirty immigrant. hes an ex-pat. elon believes the word "immigrant" is reserved for...
I guess I would expect him to be into science and space and stuff.
@user-xs4kj7ou6h - I would expect him to be a thoughtful adult who can see with clear vision now, like I became after I left Florida. (I was born in the segregation era - segregated schools, restaurants, water fountains for crying out loud!).
@@MossyMozart If you don't mind my asking, what city did you grow up in?
Prejudice isn't science. Answers without questions are propaganda.
Aphorisms earn likes. Platitudes generate popularity.
Where's the question to this answer?
Answers without questions are Jeopardy! clues.
You can take the emeraldmine heir out of South African apartheid but you can't take South African apartheid out of the emeraldmine heir.
He doesn't like censorship on his platform but don't you dare post anything about his false persona.
Because free speech is an excuse to promote himself and his racist’s philosophy.
Europeans and Blacks were largely separate for a long time. Slavery led to the mixing of blacks and Caucasians in the U.S. We see hybrid vigor demonstrated in almost every sports team in the country. The fact that we don't see the same in board rooms isn't proof of black inferiority, it's pretty obviously structural racism at work. If the playing field were level, some of us with parents from different continents would rise to the top in every endeavor. It's painful to watch this nonsense spread; our demographic choices were made two generations ago, and these people who "want my country back" could best contribute by no longer voting against their own interests.
How does hybrid vigor occur in sports?
@@rinkohorowitz In my tribe we have these things called "Google" and "ChatGPT". You pose a question, you get an answer. Plants show hybrid vigor as do animals. Despite our self-awareness, we are, all of us, just large, clever apes, so the same rules apply.
I'm not sold on structural racism being the reason for the outcome gap these days. I'd say fatherless homes is a much bigger factor.
@@hypergraphic And those are a result of structural racism in the first place.
Modern diversity is about color and gender and less about ideas. Obama was a (half) black guy but was no different in his political philosophy than Biden or Clinton. Many of these boards and CEOs you speak of are more than happy to have non-whites as long as they tow the company line.
Amazing how often, upon realising they don’t deserve their success, rich and powerful people seek out any bs to justify their position.
When will people STOP buying Teslas???
irk...? the "Monster" that is Elon didn't create himself. sadly people are weak AF in their thinking and unable to see past the tip of their noses regarding the LARGER EFFECTS of their "addictions" and their Consumer Behavior.
Already begun
Elon Musk was raised in South Africa and grew up with apartheid. It does not surprise that he harbours racial discrimination against black people in that case, albeit it also does not excuse his racism. What really scares me is how quickly his interest and support of a racist tweet can promote that message to millions of followers.
The wild thing is that even Trump doesn’t take it as far as Elon when it comes to racism. Trump is tame compared to him, let that sink in.
I wish mother Jones would post more often?
Working on it!! 🫡🙏🥰
@@MotherJonesThank you!! 🙏
The fact that people use charts, graphs, quotes - often from peer-reviewed and rejected papers - to manipulate and convince other people is *so so true!*
But he’s racist from misinterpreting the biblical text and going from there - aka Trump
Ever notice how the so-called-genius Elon seems to just express his superior intellect by retweeting stuff or purchasing naming rights to corporations?
I still need to go find this recording, but right after he took over the twit site someone recorded this 'spaces' conversation. These were their voices, not like a transcript. I hear some engineer make a point, I wasn't sure how valid it was or not, but Elon's response was so BREATHTAKINGLY arrogant it blew my mind. he first, stomped all over this guy, maligned his intelligence, called him stupid, called his ideas stupid, stomp stomp stomp. Then, without hardly a pause, he repeats the man's very statement almost word for word, smugly, as if he knew better all along. But, he just REPEATED what the other guy said. After viciously crapping all over said engineeer. THAT'S how he works.
And it's not like that's out of pattern, he forced the real founder of Tesla out and demanded to be referred to as the founder. That's how he makes people think he's a 'genius.' He just waits for the real brains to solve a problem then elbows them out of the way and takes credit.
@@angelainamarie9656
The Anti Christ Spirit is operating in him: as well as his close billionaire associates.
Einstein (a man who blatantly stole from his mathematician wife) himself said “the key to genius is hiding your sources” aka stealing from others more brilliant than you
Very well said. Now I’m waiting for people to realize he isn’t really fighting the woke mind virus but actually he’s CONTRIBUTING TO IT. No one who hates “woke” would go and breed three times with someone like Grimes. Clearly his relationship with Grimes is ALL ABOUT EUGENICS. Elon is evil and just as dangerous as his buddy Bill Gates.
In 2022 I was going to buy three Tesla cars for Christmas. Elon sent one tweet that left me saying to myself wtf. We went with Toyota and Lexus instead. The guy is a total tool.
Good choice. He is selling Tesla stock like crazy. You’re better off buying a Toyota or a Chinese EV. Tesla uses the same parts as the aforementioned anyway.
Good. Better quality cars anyway.
@@rinkohorowitz I won't touch anything in China anymore. It's time we all start buying from those who are not seeking growth with the purpose of destroying us. All the workstations and electronics in my home are made no closer than South Korea, Maylasia, Taiwan or Japan. Yes, they're more expensive but it's a small price to pay for not supporting the CCP. Yes, I do know that the Toyota wire harnesses and relays are made in China, but I couldn't get around that.
The first laughable criteria is that IQ does not measure inteligence. It measures culture more than one's ability to think. And because intelligence has so many qualities, it cannot be quantified in one general test. It's like going on Jeopardy and being the winner then playing a Chess master and getting destroyed. The memorization used on Jeopardy will not be a strong talent to beat a Chess master.
We studied one of the early Army 'IQ" tests in my sociology class. It included questions about what was in such-and-so book of the Bible, as if every American should be able to easily recall that. I was like, as an atheist, I would have simply failed this 'intelligence' test. it is indeed, more a 'socialization' test. Can't avoid being one.
_"The first laughable criteria is that IQ does not measure intelligence. It measures culture more than one's ability to think. And because intelligence has so many qualities, it cannot be quantified in one general test."_
You're close, but not quite there.
IQ (intelligence quotient) tests are designed to measure certain cognitive abilities and skills, such as:
1. Fluid reasoning - The ability to think logically, identify patterns, and solve problems in novel situations.
2. Knowledge - Acquired knowledge from education and exposure to information.
3. Quantitative reasoning - The ability to understand and solve mathematical and numerical problems.
4. Visual-spatial processing - The ability to analyze and process visual details and spatial relationships.
5. Working memory - The ability to temporarily store and manipulate information in the mind.
It's true that IQ tests have limitations and don't measure all aspects of human intelligence. Factors like emotional intelligence, creativity, wisdom, and practical skills are not fully captured by IQ scores. Additionally, IQ can be influenced by education, socioeconomic status, and cultural factors.
While IQ scores can provide an estimate of certain cognitive abilities, they should not be taken as a definitive or comprehensive measure of one's overall intelligence or potential for success in life.
@@RichardHarlos I am not close. I am accurate. Why? Because intelligence is an opinion. And as an opinion, people will place value on that opinion. Because we did not create anything that has intelligence all our values and statements on intelligence are subjective. We can't truly define something we do not fully understand. Western culture has decieved us on our own capabilities and understanding.
@@olzt100 You are not accurate. You are partially accurate. So again, you're close.
Repeating your previous narrative doesn't constitute an argument from evidence. It's just a rant.
@@RichardHarlos No. I am acurate and you are reading a designed defintion that is programming you to be wrong. Let's try this as proof. We discover two civiliations in outer space. Both have advanced technologies above our own. How do we determine which civilization is more intelligent? Some type of awkward test? No. It's going to be by some subjective judgement comparing it to the base knowledge we posssess. But how good is our own base knowledge if they have advanced technologies? End of debate. Western culture has dumbed you down, not made you smarter.
It’s important to note that he’s been doing great replacement, white genocide talk for years. It isn’t something that he started doing in the last year or two.
I really, really push back on people who said he’s recently become radicalized. He’s not become radicalized, he’s just decided to give up the game where he was pretending to be a decent human being.
I keep telling y’all he’s a rich white man from South Africa.. It’s only a matter of time before his racist past catches up with him…🤔 Acting like he is over here, I can only imagine how he was behaving over there in South Africa!
Dropped my twitter account when Elon bought it. Don’t miss it at all. Just think if everyone that can’t stand the guy signed off for good. They would eat themselves.
and don't ever all it X. keep calling it twitter. that should piss elon off lol
deleted my account when he purchased it also. Proof money cant buy class.
thing to remember is that when you engage someone on social media who's spreading these pseudo-scientific ideas, you may not convince that individual of their error, but there will be other readers who will see your response and be swayed by your argument.
I lived 1997 for some time in South Africa, and visited 2011/12 again. Especially in 1997 I met some white south Africans who tried to explain this way of thinking to me, that we europeans just wouldn't understand but that it would be a fact...and I also met (and actually learned from) very bright black south africans. And I remember being in a train from Cape town to Johannesburg and a white woman not entering the compartment because there was a coloured and a black woman sitting there with me...And that was the time when Musk was a young adult. Grown up in Apartheid, in a family that gained a lot from it, and feeling superior.
Oh wow I haven't heard about phrenology in ages, maybe Elon believes in the four humors too?
Remember his roots. It is steeped in Apartheid ideology. Never mind that his family were victims of a robbery during that era. You reap what you sow.
Musk is from South Africa and hangs out with Trump - yeah, not a surprise
my life is so blessed because my very first friend ever, before first grade was by black neighbor, same age as me
really hard to develop ignorant misconstruals about black people, when he was practically my brother my entire childhood
and now my whole life I don't have this troubling fictional problem, which is really a psychological race complex
Neo social Darwinism makes a comeback
Thank you
Musk is not the only high profile person spreading racist tropes. An even more successful racist - Donald Trump.
Elon knows how to play the game, he's from colonial south africa.
This guy is such a net negative to our society.
SpaceX
Tesla
PayPal
Don't say net negative
What is sad is the willing audience [people like Musk find. It seems there will always be people who are eager to put others down. Imagine living a life where the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making others feel worse. The only way you can feel worthwhile is by saying others are worthless. Often seems coupled with an inability to express any emotion other than anger.
Elon has let the power that comes with money go to his child like mentality. Sounds a lot like the orange man, doesn't he.
He’s actually worse than Trump. Even Trump isn’t as racist and conniving as Elon Musk. People will soon see that Musk is going to become even worse than Bill Gates.
The only thing musk has going for him is he has brilliant people working for him. He’s not one of them.
Exactly! He's horrible
As a 60 yr old white man, this is stupid. The US wouldn't have made it to the moon if it hadn't been for a black woman named Catherine Johnson, she figured out the tragectory to get to the moon and back.🇺🇲💙🇺🇲
Sir, there were two other Black women that worked with mathematician Katherine Johnson…..there was engineer Mary Jackson and NASA supervisor Dorothy Vaughan…..
America wouldn't be America without the unpaid contributions of black people period.
That is a lie.
@@donjindrano it isn’t
@@christianlamptey7188 Yes it is. Thousands of people could have made those calculations.
IQ test validity was debunked soooo long ago that I'm amazed anyone believes in them. (btw, my own IQ score was the highest in my age level at more than one school I attended, so I'm not speaking from sour grapes).
So many people hear the dog whistle and don't understand who is using the whistle and their ulterior motives behind the dog whistle, you can't fix stupid, you can only work around it
Elon bows to Twitter user Cat Turd. That's where Elon is at these days.
IQ and other tests only test your ability to complete that kind of test. Imagine a Canadian sitting a test in India during summer when the test is in Indian standard English.
Such porn excuses
elon musk: so deficient that he thinks *elon musk* is smart
Was anyone really surprised? I mean, he renamed Twitter to a stylized swastika... just need to add a few lines, which I'm sure is his motto to begin with
This from the guy who called the rescuers of those kids trapped in a cave in Thailand peodofiles, all because he wasn't given the chance to "save" them
Musk is that guy that seems smart until he opens his mouth
We're ONE species.
We’re one RACE.
@@CoryPchajek Amen.
Just because Musk has an ability to (perhaps addiction to?) making money, why do people assume he's intelligent? The amount of money you have does not automatically make you smart. The more we get to know him (Musk), the more we see how flawed he is.
Elon seems to genuinely think wealth = intellect, which I can understand. If your entire success was based off the random chance of tech and the ability to be born wealthy you might want to ascribe to a philosophy that justifies having obscene levels of wealth. Here's someone who could spent 0.01% of his net wealth and save thousands of lives but doesn't want to. If he can't convince himself he's the best person to have that wealth he's just a guy who got lucky and who should be doing something better with his life.
As an aside he's also a terrible business owner. He deconstructed subways up invent a go cart ride for Teslas that is incredibly inefficient, costly and involves workers being exposed to unreasonable levels of work place safety violations. That's the kind of idiocy he gets to to on his own. The way American business culture works there's very little punishment for being a toxic boss so he's fine. But again it speaks to this same mentality, since he's wealthy he must be right. "Trust me I'm going to invent cave tunnels that make no sense if you understand anything about the problem and I'll defame the people who do understand the issues" isn't the outlook of someone who recognizes their limitations.
So this nonsense fits perfectly into reinforcing his self delusion. Since he also doesn't have the background or intellect to understand complex issues outside his limited field of expertise he can't figure out why it's stupid. And even better it fits his new hypocritical free speech warrior self image. He didn't waste billions of dollars he's saving society through his anti intellectual understanding of free speech where everyone gets it, unless it occurs on another website, costs him money or hurts his ego. Then it doesn't count. In his mind if he can find something "anti woke" that justifies destroying his relationship with at least one of his children and spending money he didn't want to then it will be all worth it because he'll gain the respect he thinks he deserves. Because he's rich which means he must be better than all his critics afterall.
If an account says ‘radical centrist’ you run for the hills.
Why ?
You can take the profiteer out of apartheid, but you can't take apartheid out of the profiteer.
Ya, I'm a biologist and we know there is no such thing as race. Phenotype is the term to describe the differences between people from different areas of the globe. Brief periods of reproductive isolation lead to differences in the populations but IQ isn't necessarily one of those characteristics. But- it can be in populations exposed to toxic environmental variables...say like lead in paint in historically impoverished neighborhoods, methyl mercury contamination in regions with pulp and paper production ( first nations reserves for example). Current research indicates a possible causal relationship between air pollution ( like in urban areas) and reductions in intelligence.
Exactly
IQ testing is a flawed metric for determining intelligence. The IQ test can only be 'passed' or 'excelled' by someone who is familiar with the subject matter in the test and the language of the test. People who share the same background as the person who made the test would obviously score higher marks. Intelligence is learned through your environment. We learn what we need to navigate the places and spaces that we frequent. A child from the inner city may be more adept at reading faces to determine friend or foe. They may know their neighborhood back-to-front to know where to hide if a strange person is chasing them. They may know the best way to fend off a rabid dog. This intelligence is more useful to them than pointing out a divan from a commode whilst identifying the colloquial names couch and toilet.
Ah so Hes right ?
@@marvin2678 Which he were you referring to?
Funny thing is: genetic variation in Africa is higher than anywhere else. There is actually no such thing as "a black person".
Yet africa IS all underdevolped
I feel like a better person after watching this.
I believe that.
Thank you for outing Elon the racist
For anybody that doesn't know pseudo means false. Calling something pseudo-science or pseudo-religion or pseudo-jaywalking is literally just calling it false, like un-science or un-religion or un-jaywalking or false-science or false-religion or false-jaywalking.
Elon Musk Is a 🤡
Why is anybody surprised that a south african who grew up during a part tide doesn't think much of black people?
In 1914 George Washington Carver was called upon by Georgia to help them with their boll weevil infestation. Mr Carver had them plant sweet potatoes, peanuts to save their farms. Now why didn't any white man think of that? They had to send for him in Iowa!!!🇺🇲💙🇺🇲
He was an Apartheid Baby (pre-Nelson Mandela South Africa). Read "Inequality by Design" written at the time "The Bell Curve" came out. IBD talks about how environment like living in a physically toxic environment full of lead and other heavy metals can reduce one's IQ. Also IQ is plastic. The more education you have the higher your IQ becomes. Also read "A Terrible Thing to Waste" which goes into detail about IQ altering pollution. Not only was Musk raised in a state that made this official policy but he is doing it to get a rise out of people thinking that all publicity is good. If you are in the market for an Electric Vehicle there are more to choose from and the market is expanding all the time.
It's about keeping the game going.
Mebbe an "Urban IQ" test might clarify the issue of tests being biased by group experience being interpreted as "common knowledge".
"Common knowledge" is determined by the people who control the narratives.
Maybe, the government should take twitter away from Elon. I've never, and never will, use it, but even I realize the impact of the platform.
IBM did this in the 1930's in Central Europe. It didn't end well.
So glad you are calling out Elon for what he is!!!!
Tell neil degrasse tyson that
Jordan Kermit the frog Peterson also believes this stuff- someone look into Peterson on Race and IQ.
And Elon Musks South African apartheid aligned family of origin doesn’t seem to bother enough of us… this is a HUGE problem.
He doesn’t think the outcomes are different because of race, but rather culture and environment.
Shut Elon Musk down. Shut all his platforms down permanently.
I have always maintained that Musk was both ignorant and dangerous. A person can be a scientific/business/math genius and still be ignorant. In Musk's case he believes that wealth = clever. And so do millions of stupid people. A really clever person KNOWS that clever = control. But will never tell anyone that secret.
Thank you all so so much for sharing this!
What he is doing with that platform is so dangerous
You can just observe people in public for a time and see it's bs.
Great content from MJ. Subscribed, hope to see these vids get more traction.
And yet , after hearing this black people will go out in "droves ", to buy either a tesla or get on the x platform. Leave that man alone ! He has nothing of value , period !🧐
The average Tesla buyer is a middle aged affluent whlte male.
We aren't buying his cars in droves.
We do buy Mercedes in droves, though.
Black X is the most fun place online.
Being rich doesn’t exempt one from being an a$$hole.
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Yet all the black conservatives will still defend him and others on the right and subscribe to this ignorance
So, in a video talking about how guilty by association is a flawed argument used to color Black people, you’re holding Elon Musk guilty of being racist by being slightly associated with racist?
I forgot he's from South Africa! I hate billionaires.
The growth of billionaires has been in storage in a thorn in the side of America
Elon believes his crap doesnt stink and that somehow hes a genius, lol.
"..gross sweeping statements about entire groups of people." - Isn't that what people do when they say Asians are shorter on average? Or when they say Scandinavians have brighter and more fine hair? What makes the brain an exception?
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