- Elon Musk says that he is not a Nazi following the backlash to a gesture he made last month.
- Musk told Joe Rogan that you cannot be called Nazi if you do not actively commit a genocide.
- “What is really bad with the Nazis-it was not their fashion or their manners, it was war and genocide,” he said.
Elon Musk Said he is not a Nazi and that the online hatred he receives is “quite stressful”.
In a three -hour episode of Joe Rogan’s podcast On Friday, Rogan and Musk discussed a recent incident that fueled the accusations that the billionaire Spacex And Tesla The CEO has made a Nazi gesture.
While talking to the crowd to President Donald TrumpCelebration of the inauguration in January, Musk made a gesture that brought a lot to wonder if he was intended to be a fascist salute.
For example, the former vice-president of the central council of Jews in Germany Michel Friedman, told a German point of sale that Musk’s action was a shame and, in his opinion, very clearly a salvation “Heil Hitler”, The guardian reported. American representative Jerry Nadler also condemned the gesture in a PublishSeveral Jewish organizations spoken againstand the Jewish Human Rights Group the Simon Wiesenthal Center urged musk to clarify its intentions.
Meanwhile, the anti-division league has argued in A post on x That it was “an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute”.
Social media sites, especially X -belonging to Musc, have since been invaded by users accusing the billionaire of Nazism tolerance.
In response to controversy, Musk Written on x At the time, “do not say Hess to the Nazi accusations! Some people will do something! Stop your enemies! His pronouns would have been he / himmler! I bet that you made the Nazi to come”, transforming the names of the prominent Nazis in puns, followed by an emoji who cried.
On Friday, Musk told Rogan that persistent criticism is “ridiculous” and that the gesture was not a Nazi salute, joking, “now I can never point things diagonally.”
“I hope people realize that I am not a Nazi. To be clear, I’m not a Nazi,” said Musk laughing.
Musk then argued that if you do not commit genocide, then you cannot be called Nazi.
“What is relevant about the Nazis is, invading Poland? And if you do not see Poland, maybe you’re not” a Nazi, “he said. “You have to commit a genocide and start wars.”
“What is really bad with the Nazis-it was not their fashion or their manners, it was war and genocide,” he added.
At another moment of the episode, Rogan asked the billionaire how he personally manages hatred and attacks against him.
“It’s quite stressful,” replied Musk, taking a much more serious tone. “They really want to kill me. They say it online. There are like reddit forums where they don’t just want to kill me, they want to desecrate my corpse.”
It was not only the gestures of Musk’s arm that led the criticisms to debate if he supports Nazi ideologies. The white house leader DOGE desk also supported the extreme right of Germany political party, the Alternative for the German festivalwhich is fiercely nationalist and anti-immigration. AFD party leaders have reused Nazi slogans, urged Germany to stop apologizing for its past crimes, and said that the Nazis are only a “bird shit” in the long and successful history of Germany.
Musk did not respond to the request for BI comments.