Summary
Elon Musk called for the firing of Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Long after she exposed racist tweets from Marko Elez, a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee who later resigned.
Long’s report revealed Elez had posted remarks promoting racism and eugenics.
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” Elez posted in July, according to the Journal’s review of archived posts.
Musk, who claims to support free speech, labeled Long “disgusting and cruel” and demanded that she should be fired.
Critics noted the hypocrisy of Musk advocating for a journalist’s removal over accurate reporting on a public official’s misconduct.
he’s going full (kan)ye
I mean if there is no recourse for social murder of that scale, what do they expect? The original era of leftist terrorism (the propaganda of the deed) was in the 19th to early 20th century, but it was actually ditched for humanitarian reasons (all the while the first fascist regimes ramped UP their violence) and it was done more to bring about change.
What Luigi did (and he was not a leftist) is far more personal than political. While he did mention political reasons, the events in his own life really got him so pissed at the system that he shot that low-level CEO (He was a CEO. But the conglomerate that is United Health is so large that he was practically a middle-manager in terms of the internal predatory chain). It was mostly very personal, and I think this is what is even scarier to them than a revolutionary feeling. People killing for personal reasons will do so regardless of their overall political reasons.