Summary

Elon Musk called for the firing of Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Long after she exposed racist tweets from Marko Elez, a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee who later resigned.

Long’s report revealed Elez had posted remarks promoting racism and eugenics.

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” Elez posted in July, according to the Journal’s review of archived posts.

Musk, who claims to support free speech, labeled Long “disgusting and cruel” and demanded that she should be fired.

Critics noted the hypocrisy of Musk advocating for a journalist’s removal over accurate reporting on a public official’s misconduct.

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    10 hours ago

    always has been, he is the son of a slaver in apartheid SA and iirc grandson of a nazi. of course he is racist too.

    now that he is the literal dictator of the biggest empire in the world, i don’t think he needs to worry about softening it anymore. its logical that fascism will serve him judging from the… gestures hes been making. or the casual fascist shit hes been saying for years at this point.

    i think your hunch is correct though. he didnt bother climbing onto that throne not to use it. the silver lining is that he already showed himself incompetent.

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      2 hours ago

      Not the grandson or the son, he is aamof a Nazi. US officials are obeying orders coming from a Nazi.

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        11 minutes ago

        oh yeah he made it pretty obvious for a while now hes a nazi too. i just thought it was already pretty obvious for everyone not on his cult of personality.