X owner and Tesla founder Elon Musk said Monday that diversity-oriented hiring practices are “fundamentally anti-Semitic” after touring the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Monday. Ta.
“Diversity, equity, inclusion — we always have to be wary of names that sound like they come out of a George Orwell book,” Musk said. during the interview He spoke with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro at the European Jewish Association conference in Poland.
“I think what that really means is discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, against merit, and therefore fundamentally anti-Semitic,” he continued. Ta.
In recent weeks, Musk has spoken out against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, calling them racist. series of Post by Xformerly Twitter.
“The race-based discrimination practiced by DEI is literally the definition of racism,” he wrote in a post earlier this month.
Musk's comments on Monday came after visiting the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland. His visit comes after Musk faced backlash over anti-Semitic messages and the prevalence of his views on X.
Musk faced backlash in November when he appeared to endorse anti-Semitic posts about X, calling them “absolute truth.” Later that month, a number of major companies decided to pull their ads from X after a Media Matters report revealed that the brand's ads were running next to pro-Nazi content on the platform.
Musk also claimed on Monday, without evidence, that an audit found that X had less anti-Semitic content than other platforms. “The external audits we've done show that out of all the other social apps, X has the least amount of anti-Semitism,” Musk said during the event.
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