By Paul Kersey
04/29/2022
Earlier: Ann Coulter: This Thanksgiving, Joy-Ann Reid Has Much To Be Thankful For
Is this it?
Did a white South African just spend $44 billion to make the slur of white supremacist irrelevant? Because when trying to uplift the idea of free speech and defeat the concept of censorship and baseless accusations about âwhite powerâ when faced with undeniable truth, Elon Muskâs bid to acquire Twitter may have just permanently ended the stigma of the anti-white slur.
A black woman on MSNBC and a fake black man on Twitter have both tried to shame Musk for trying to â in their vernacular â restore the white supremacy of Apartheid South Africa.
Desensitizing your average white mother and father, who pay their taxes and work hard to drive their children to and from school and soccer practice, to the idea of no longer caring about being called a âwhite supremacistâ for simply believing in free speech is worth protecting and defending is not a winning proposition for advancing the idea Musk is the bad guy.
Free speech is good, right?
In the eyes of those who stand to gain by censoring free speech with the slur of âwhite supremacy,â itâs a toxic concept.
But the richest man in the world is now challenging the hegemony of the âwhite supremacyâ slurâŚ
MSNBCâs Joy Reid Claims Elon Musk âMissesâ Apartheid-Era South Africa, by Liz Wolfe, Reason.com, April 27, 2022
On Tuesday night, MSNBC anchor Joy Reid implied that SpaceX/Tesla founder Elon Musk, whoâs in the process of purchasing Twitter, wants to own the social media site to restore the white supremacy of Apartheid-era South Africa.
In Reidâs telling, right-wingers on Twitter have âbeen described as being on the outside of the culture looking in through the glass. But they donât just want to come in. They want to come in and be able to punch people in the face and walk around and laugh about it and then not have anyone to stop them.â
âThe enjoyment they get out of being in this âtown squareâ is being able to harass people, being able to attack peopleâŚElon Musk, I guess he misses the old South Africa in the â80s, I guess he wants that back,â offered Reid.
Reid wasnât the only one hinting, or outright declaring, that Musk has racist motivations. She was joined by discredited Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King, who said Muskâs actions were âabout white powerâ and that he âwas raised in Apartheid by a white nationalist.â
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This is false on multiple counts. Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1971. His parents divorced when he was a child, and Musk lived with his father Errol, an engineer who amassed a large fortune, for several years. Musk moved to Canada in 1988 when he was 17. He and his father became estranged later on, though Musk said in 2019 that Errol contributed â10% of a ~$200k angel funding roundâ to Zip2, one of Muskâs early business ventures.*
The oft-repeated claim that Elon Musk is a racist or an Apartheid supporter likely originates from the Errolâs claim that he owned a Zambian emerald mine in the 1980s. Many people have since used Errolâs claim to argue that the family must have profited from Apartheid, with some detractors alleging that this fortune was then funneled to Elon and used by him at the start of his career.
This is all they have.
âWhite supremacist.â
Thatâs it.
And they just pulled that card on Elon Musk, for his daring to buy Twitter and restore free speech.
In one, seemingly innocuous act, Musk has inadvertently neutered the power of our enemies calling anything they like âwhite supremacy,â and immediately not only delegitimizing it, but cancelling it/them for good.
Thereâs no going back, now.
We either live in a world where speech our enemies donât like can be drowned out with cries of âwhite supremacy,â or we live in a world where our speech is unencumbered with such spurious claims.
Musk may have just liberated Western man.