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by Auracle 942 days ago
You could see the online public opinion shift against him in real time on Reddit the second he started mentioning some politically conservative viewpoints. I bet someone smarter than me could figure out a way to graph it.
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You mean his anti-Semitism comments?
Yeah, your comment on it is a perfect illustration, thank you.

Most Jewish people in the US are Democrats, and it's pretty much been the party platform the last ten years to push "hatred against whites" and to immigrate "hordes of minorities."

Apparently the latter is a conspiracy theory against Jewish people as a whole, though I've certainly never heard it. Perhaps Elon hadn't either. To call him affirmatively replying to that tweet antisemitic is a huge stretch. Should someone in his position be commenting on stuff like that? Probably not, but I think it's insane it's as big of a deal that it is.

For what it's worth I just unsubscribed to a particular Patreon because the guy running it was clearly pro-Hamas/anti-Israel from what he's been posting on Twitter. I'm in no way an antisemite myself.

To your comment as whole - no, I was referring to perhaps...5 years ago?