The Left is absolutely furious that Elon Musk purchased Twitter.
They are spearheading attacks against him on multiple fronts.
And the New York Times wrote one despicable hit piece on Musk that will make your head spin.
Twitter is not a greatly profitable business, but that is not where the platform’s power lies.
Leftists understand this, which is why they were desperate for the Twitter board to turn down Elon Musk’s godfather offer.
But the board couldn’t refuse Musk’s offer without violating its fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders.
Twitter has become the home base of blue-checkmark journalists.
Twitter is also where many people now get their news.
The establishment desperately wants control of all major information outlets, which is why Musk purchasing Twitter is such a problem.
The response from the establishment has been to smear Musk mercilessly in some hopes that he will be thwarted from taking control of the company.
And the latest smear comes courtesy of The New York Times, which drew back on Musk’s experiences as a child in apartheid-era South Africa.
The Times published a piece entitled Elon Musk Left a South Africa That Was Rife With Misinformation and White Privilege: The apartheid era created all-white enclaves littered with anti-Black government propaganda and sheltered from the atrocities of apartheid.
The Times argued that “Mr. Musk has heralded his purchase of Twitter as a victory for free speech, having criticized the platform for removing posts and banning users. It is unclear what role his childhood — coming up in a time and place in which there was hardly a free exchange of ideas and where government misinformation was used to demonize Black South Africans — may have played in that decision.”
The Times’s logic is incredibly tortured.
Musk’s belief in free speech, perhaps because of growing up in censorious apartheid, should be commended, not viewed with skepticism.
The Times spoke with a former classmate who said, “I think his ideas about free speech are very classic liberal and not nuanced.”
The Times is trying to convince people that Musk’s “not nuanced” views on free speech are tied to his “white privilege” background in South Africa.
That utterly makes no sense.
What the Left will not and cannot admit is that they are pro-censorship so long as it is in service of their political aims.
Within the Musk hit piece, The Times linked to a separate Musk hit piece titled Mr. Musk has embraced a flawed understanding of the free speech issue. That makes the deal particularly dangerous.
The most amusing part of the failed Times hit piece is that Musk overall came out looking good.
The Times reported that “Black schoolmates recall that [Musk] spent time with Black friends…Mr. Musk became friends with…Asher Mashudu [a black student], according to Mr. Mashudu’s brother, Nyadzani Ranwashe. One time at lunch, a white student used an anti-Black slur, and Mr. Musk chided the student, but then got bullied for doing so, Mr. Ranwashe said.”
The article also recounted a story from a Musk biography that stated he eschewed military service because he did not want to partake in the apartheid regime.
The Left don’t seem to realize that they look like the villains when they attack the guy trying to defend the principle of free speech.
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