'Doesn't matter whether you're Elon Musk or…,' UK PM Rishi Sunak condemns antisemitism remark
Elon Musk, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said, "It doesn't matter whether you're Elon Musk or you're someone on the street who's shouting abuse at someone who happens to be walking past you, that's wrong in all its forms". In an interview with Bloomberg News, Sunak subtly slammed Musk's remark, unlike US President Joe Biden who accused the tech entrepreneur of amplifying anti-Jewish hatred on his X social media platform.
Instead, the UK PM told in the interview, "I don't tend to get in the business of scrutinizing what every single person says who I've interacted with. Of course I abhor antisemitism".
"Antisemitism in all its forms is completely and utterly wrong," Sunak added. This month, the Tesla CEO was severely embroiled in a controversy for backing antisemitism opinions on the X platform.
Elon Musk greed with a post on X that falsely claimed Jewish people were stoking hatred against white people, saying the user who referenced the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory was speaking "the actual truth." 'Only wish the best for humanity...' says Elon Musk on anti-semitism controversy The US White House condemned what it called an "abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate" that "runs against our core values as Americans." Major US companies including Walt Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, and NBCUniversal parent Comcast paused their advertisements on his social media site. Disney Joins Apple, IBM in Pulling Ads from Elon Musk's X Over Antisemitism Controversy The "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory holds that Jewish people and leftists are engineering the ethnic and cultural replacement of white populations with non-white immigrants that will lead to a "white genocide." Antisemitism and Islamophobia have risen
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