Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Don't his robot cars keep killing people?

I mention this because being ultra-wealthy is not the same thing as being an expert in...well, anything's really. Did you see this? Elon Musk's defense of Dilbert creator Scott Adams's batshit video about how America should just give up trying to not be racist. 
Has it been though? Racist against white people I mean.
Is he...could he be thinking of some other the media
Pictured: what Musk did.
After the preponderance of the internet clapped back at Adams for his ignorant shittiness, Musk leapt to his defense, both turning the table whilst simultaneously flipping the script. Yeah, you read that right, it's the media that's racist. Against white people. Asian people too. And um. Cool, yeah. I mean, he's half right, maybe. There's absolutely racism in the media, but I've never noticed being aimed at white people, have you? At Asian people, sure, but I think he just stuck that in there so he'd sound less racist. Which didn't really work. In fact, it kind of backfired. 

"Mondays? More like No Fun-days!"
-basically Dilbert
Adams coming out with his nonsense was weird enough. He's been voicing some pretty retrograde opinions for years now, but I guess he's never said anything offensive enough to overcome his lack of relevancy. It's like people didn't care enough to cancel him before now. And I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be a dick, I know he was a successful comic writer for years, and Dilbert had it's day but it's not like anyone in twenty twenty three was waiting for Scott Adams to weigh in on race in America. Nor was anyone waiting for Elon Musk's opinion either.

So why did he jump in there? Nobody cares what he things about this and it's not like he needs to attach himself to controversy to get attention. Everyone hates that he bought twitter, his self-driving cars keep getting into fatal accidents, and he's started hanging out with MAGA goons. Is it that he feels like he's so rich and powerful that nothing can touch him? Sure, it's been true so far, but sooner or later this catches up with him, right?
"It's about time a cis, straight, white, male billionaire set the
record straight about how hard it is to be white in America."
-literally not one person ever

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