Unelected billionaire Elon Musk, who made a Nazi salute and denied it, reposted a Twitter/X user who claimed Hitler did not murder millions of people, reports USA TODAY:
The post read: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”
Musk’s repost, which now appears to be deleted, drew furious reactions from a labor union and the Anti-Defamation League.
Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, fired back:
“America’s public service workers — our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians — chose making our communities safe, healthy and strong over getting rich. They are not, as the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers.”
…The Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit that seeks to combat antisemitism, said the post was “deeply disturbing.”
Forbes notes Musk’s past Nazi statements:
The repost also follows Nazi puns made by Musk in January, when he evoked the names of infamous Nazi party members like Rudolf Hess and Joseph Goebbels after coming under fire for a gesture he made at a Trump inaugural event that was likened to a Nazi salute by foreign leaders and Democrats.
Musk has faced antisemitism allegations since 2023, when the billionaire openly agreed with a post that claimed “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”
The post also said the western Jewish population was “coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much,” to which Musk said, “You have said the actual truth.” Musk was condemned for the post and several advertisers fled from his platform in the wake of his comment.