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by ksherlock 1127 days ago
Apparently, that backstory was invented in 2008, 45 years after his debut (1963).
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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...

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.
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

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.