[uejfiweun]

This seems like more than a bit of a stretch to me. I don't really think of Magneto as a "Jewish supervillain". In fact I highly doubt almost anybody knew Magneto was Jewish. This attempt to paint this as an anti-Semitic attack seems totally unfair to me.

Moreover, Soros is a guy from another country who pours money into the USA to get leftist DAs elected who don't prosecute crimes. Krasner, Boudin, Gascon, etc. He has openly admitted to this. I have an ENORMOUS amount of criticism of this that has literally NOTHING to do with Mr. Soros' religion, or background, or anything. Hiding behind this wall of "any criticism of me is racist" is a serious bullshit move IMO.

[rco8786]

> In fact I highly doubt almost anybody knew Magneto was Jewish. This attempt to paint this as an anti-Semitic attack seems totally unfair to me.

I have no skin in this game...but Elon most definitely knows that Magneto is Jewish when making that comparison. Whether or not other people are aware of it is irrelevant.

[uejfiweun]

I mean is that a guarantee though? If I was looking for a random OLD supervillain to compare to Soros I'd probably go with Magneto or Saruman as well! How do we know Musk wasn't just picking some old man supervillain?

In general I'd like to try to believe people aren't just blatantly racist.

[giraffe_lady]

Does it not feel weird to go so far afield to find an alternate explanation when the obvious one fits his other actions, statements, and recent political affiliations?

Are you going to notice when you cross over from "giving someone the benefit of the doubt" to "making excuses for racists?" Is it possible you already have?

[uejfiweun]

I really don't feel like I'm going "far afield" here. When I think "Magneto" the first things that come to mind are "X-men" and "old" and "wheelchair". AFAIK I literally have never seen any info saying he is Jewish until today. And according to the commenter below this detail of Magento was invented in 2008, well after many of the movies were made.

[cmurf]

He's Jewish, and a Holocaust survivor. It's central to the character's backstory from nearly the beginning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto_(Marvel_Comics)

And it's in the opening scene of the first X-Men movie (2000). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI7SEIKaKwE

And is a recurring theme in others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY2eW2cXcNg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu8g3Z2Hles

[uejfiweun]

OK, I stand corrected. Thank you. I clearly don't know what I'm talking about. I'm not really an X-man fan.

[hackermatic]

Anybody who is extremely on Twitter (Musk) or interested in American politics (Musk) can't help but be aware that invoking Soros is an anti-Semitic trope going back decades.

[ksherlock]

Apparently, that backstory was invented in 2008, 45 years after his debut (1963).

[croes]

The survivor-of-Auschwitz part is from the 80s, they just didn't make him explicitly Jewish back then.

https://www.vulture.com/2019/06/dark-phoenix-how-the-x-men-m...

[uejfiweun]

Yeah I mean it's pretty obvious that WaPo political operatives just dug this unknown detail up in an attempt to smear Musk as an anti-Semite, because that's easier than actually trying to argue with his claims via fact and reason.

[fzeroracer]

Musk was literally told about Magneto [1] and he decided to double down on it on a reply. Dunno how much more explicit Musk needs to make it.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1658294821679951872?s=20

[greedo]

It's pretty clear from the movies that Magneto was a Holocaust survivor. I'm pretty confident that Musk knows this, and was clearly peeved that Soros had recently sold his T$LA holdings. The man's pettiness knows no bounds.

[kmos17]

Soros is a holocaust survivor, everything he does that you label as leftist is to avoid a repetition of that horror. Musk has shown his true colors many times before, this is just more of the same and confirming how despicable a person he is.