The White Home has condemned Twitter proprietor Elon Musk’s put up amplifying the identical antisemitic trope that motivated the Pittsburgh Tree of Life mass assassin.
“It’s unacceptable to repeat the hideous lie behind probably the most deadly act of Antisemitism in American historical past at any time, not to mention one month after the deadliest day for the Jewish folks for the reason that Holocaust,” White Home spokesperson Andrew Bates mentioned in an announcement despatched to PoliticusUSA.
“Like President Biden mentioned weeks in the past memorializing the victims of the Pittsburgh Synagogue taking pictures, the October 7 ‘devastating atrocity has dropped at the floor painful recollections left by millennia of Antisemitism;’ and underneath his presidency ‘we’ll proceed to sentence Antisemitism at each flip.’”
“We condemn this abhorrent promotion of Antisemitic and racist hate within the strongest phrases, which runs in opposition to our core values as People. All of us have a duty to deliver folks collectively in opposition to hate, and an obligation to talk out in opposition to anybody who assaults the dignity of their fellow People and compromises the protection of our communities.”
One of many foundational features of fascism is dividing folks into factions with dehumanizing language to allow them to be extra simply weaponized in opposition to each other, as an alternative of combating in opposition to state stealing energy from them. It is a related doctrine to bear in mind earlier than you learn these tweets.
Elon’s tweet is right here:
Elon Musk’s antisemitic and racist hate tweet
He was agreeing with this assertion (right here in full):

hate speech on Twitter
The 2 tweets above have been responding to this tweet asking individuals who write on social media “Hitler was proper” to say it to his face:
The caravan scaremongering pushed by then President Donald Trump and proper wing media within the lead as much as the 2018 midterms “discovered a goal,” as Vox put it, in “Jews who helped resettle refugees.” They famous: “However the specific second he (allegedly) selected for his bloodbath, and the place he selected to do it, present that what radicalized the assailant to the purpose of violence was a selected manifestation of anti-Semitism: blaming Jews in America for bringing in an invasion of nonwhite immigrants who would slaughter the white race.”
On October 27, 2018, Robert Bowers killed 11 congregants on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Two others have been critically wounded two others and 5 responding officers have been wounded. Throughout his trial, the proof piled as much as show that the assassin’s assault stemmed from his violently antisemitic beliefs he made public on Proper wing social media web site Gab that gives a secure haven for these whose beliefs are so noxious and vile they’ve been banned from different websites.
Elon Musk has reinstated many customers who have been beforehand banned by the previous possession, together with those that espouse Nazi beliefs and imagery, together with accused rapists and intercourse traffickers.
After the Pittsburgh Tree of Life taking pictures, GAB proprietor Andrew Torba posted concern for the households and neighborhood of Gab members, claiming that God was on “their aspect”:
“We’ve most likely probably the most site visitors we have now ever had,” Torba mentioned in a single, underneath the username @a. “Please pray for us. Our households, our mates, and our neighborhood are all underneath assault,” Torba mentioned in one other, as Gab confronted server and site visitors points. “God is on our aspect. Always remember that. God is on Gab. Pray.”
The proof proved Bowers’ motive.
“The proof on this trial proved that the defendant acted due to white supremacist, anti-Semitic and bigoted views that sadly are usually not authentic or distinctive to him,” mentioned U.S. Lawyer Eric Olshan for the Western District of Pennsylvania. “Our Structure protects an individual’s proper to carry repugnant beliefs. However our Structure additionally protects each individual’s proper to observe his or her religion. When individuals who espouse white supremacist, anti-Semitic, and bigoted views choose up weapons and use them to kill or attempt to kill folks due to their religion, our Workplace and our companions in regulation enforcement will maintain them accountable to the fullest extent of the regulation. Each time.”
The Tree of Life taking pictures is strictly what’s at stake each time a racist and or antisemitic hate trope is amplified.
I visited the Tree of Life synagogue after the taking pictures, and one of many quotes from that piece is much more haunting at the moment: “Conservadox Jew Victor Fishman, who came over the synagogue from outdoors of Atlanta, Georgia, advised me he by no means thought he’d see this in our nation – see individuals who fled from the Nazis gunned down in a synagogue in america.”
Hate speech that dehumanizes a gaggle of individuals is the primary and the final step of fascism, in response to Yale professor of philosophy Jason Stanley.

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