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<\/a><\/p>\nMusk says George Soros \u2018hates humanity,\u2019 compares him to Jewish supervillain<\/span>\u00a9\u00a0Francois Mori\/AP<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nElon Musk\u00a0<\/a>made a series of attacks on George Soros overnight, tweeting that the Jewish-born investor and liberal philanthropist, who often is subject to virulent antisemitic conspiracy theories, hates humanity and \u201cwants to erode the very fabric of civilization.\u201d<\/p>\nMusk, who has overseen\u00a0an increase of antisemitism<\/a>\u00a0and other hate speech on Twitter since he bought the social media platform last year, did not give a reason for singling out Soros. But he made his comments three days after Soros\u2019s investment fund reported that it had sold all its stock in Tesla, the electric carmaker that Musk also runs.<\/p>\nAnd Musk seemed to specifically reference the 92-year-old Holocaust survivor\u2019s background by comparing Soros to Magneto \u2014 a Jewish supervillain who \u201cfights to help mutants replace humans as the world\u2019s dominant species,\u201d as Marvel\u2019s official character description puts it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSoros reminds me of Magneto,\u201d Musk posted at 10 p.m. Monday, apropos of nothing. The tweet triggered a flood of replies comparing Soros to various symbols of evil, recalling long-standing conspiracy theories that\u00a0paint him as a godlike billionaire Jew\u00a0<\/a>who uses his philanthropic foundations to flood Europe with refugees and corrupt American politics.<\/p>\nThe left-wing commentator Brian Krassenstein replied to Musk, pointing out that Magneto is a Holocaust survivor in Marvel lore, where the character manipulates magnetic fields to oppose (and occasionally help) the heroes of X-Men films and comics. \u201c[Soros], also a Holocaust survivor, get\u2019s attacked nonstop for his good intentions which some Americans think are bad merely because they disagree with this political affiliations,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Musk replied to Krassenstein five minutes later: \u201cYou assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
His tweets were condemned Tuesday morning by Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, which has\u00a0catalogued\u00a0<\/a>similar conspiracy theories that hold Soros wants to control the world.<\/p>\n\u201cSoros often is held up by the far-right, using antisemitic tropes, as the source of the world\u2019s problems,\u201d Greenblatt wrote on Twitter. \u201cTo see Elon Musk, regardless of his intent, feed this segment \u2014 comparing him to a Jewish supervillain, claiming Soros \u2018hates humanity\u2019 \u2014 is not just distressing, it\u2019s dangerous: it will embolden extremists who already contrive anti-Jewish conspiracies and have tried to attack Soros and Jewish communities as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n
Musk, who has overseen\u00a0an increase of antisemitism<\/a>\u00a0and other hate speech on Twitter since he bought the social media platform last year, did not give a reason for singling out Soros. But he made his comments three days after Soros\u2019s investment fund reported that it had sold all its stock in Tesla, the electric carmaker that Musk also runs.<\/p>\n And Musk seemed to specifically reference the 92-year-old Holocaust survivor\u2019s background by comparing Soros to Magneto \u2014 a Jewish supervillain who \u201cfights to help mutants replace humans as the world\u2019s dominant species,\u201d as Marvel\u2019s official character description puts it.<\/p>\n \u201cSoros reminds me of Magneto,\u201d Musk posted at 10 p.m. Monday, apropos of nothing. The tweet triggered a flood of replies comparing Soros to various symbols of evil, recalling long-standing conspiracy theories that\u00a0paint him as a godlike billionaire Jew\u00a0<\/a>who uses his philanthropic foundations to flood Europe with refugees and corrupt American politics.<\/p>\n The left-wing commentator Brian Krassenstein replied to Musk, pointing out that Magneto is a Holocaust survivor in Marvel lore, where the character manipulates magnetic fields to oppose (and occasionally help) the heroes of X-Men films and comics. \u201c[Soros], also a Holocaust survivor, get\u2019s attacked nonstop for his good intentions which some Americans think are bad merely because they disagree with this political affiliations,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n Musk replied to Krassenstein five minutes later: \u201cYou assume they are good intentions. They are not. He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n His tweets were condemned Tuesday morning by Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, which has\u00a0catalogued\u00a0<\/a>similar conspiracy theories that hold Soros wants to control the world.<\/p>\n \u201cSoros often is held up by the far-right, using antisemitic tropes, as the source of the world\u2019s problems,\u201d Greenblatt wrote on Twitter. \u201cTo see Elon Musk, regardless of his intent, feed this segment \u2014 comparing him to a Jewish supervillain, claiming Soros \u2018hates humanity\u2019 \u2014 is not just distressing, it\u2019s dangerous: it will embolden extremists who already contrive anti-Jewish conspiracies and have tried to attack Soros and Jewish communities as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n