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X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)
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IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.

To be clear: Musk endorsed a tweet which used a false antisemitic conspiracy theory to tell people why "Hitler was right"

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[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It sounds like you think IBM has the same employees from 90 years ago...

Is your point that they should be consistent in their historical anti-Semitism? What exactly do you expect them to do other than disavow their past transgressions?

If anything companies like IBM, Hugo Boss and Volkswagen should be extra vigilant about supporting Nazis because of their past.

Your ancestors probably did some fucked up shit too. They may have own slaves. Are you arguing that you should be defending slavery since your ancestors engaged in it?

Think dude

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What exactly do you expect them to do other than disavow their past transgressions?

Compensations and restorations would be a minimally decent start.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then we are going to need reparations from you for your ancestors role in slavery

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

implying I'm from the US

good try, asshat.