Elon Musk voiced his belief that present-day society “blames a lot of things” on race and that race shouldn’t be a “constant subject” in a highly anticipated interview with Don Lemon.
The hour-long interview includes several wide-ranging questions about Musk’s company, Tesla, the social media platform now called X under Musk’s ownership, as well as the billionaire’s thoughts on DEI initiatives, hate speech, and racism.
When it comes to racism, “we need to move on” and “treat people like people,” Musk told Lemon.
“If we keep talking about [racism] nonstop it will never go away. If we keep making it the central thing, it will never go away,” Musk said. “We want to get away from making everything a race or a gender or whatever issue and just treat people like individuals.”
The interview went viral on X and other social media platforms, prompting debate online.
“I think we need to move on. Typical!!” one X user wrote.
“Says the rich White person who doesn’t experience racism. It is easy to say move on from something if it doesn’t impact you or you have no empathy for someone who is impacted,” wrote Facebook user Carlton Logan. “People will stop talking about racism when we no longer are subjected to it.”
In addition to colorblindness, Musk also said that every person at some point in history, including white people, “has been a slave,” stating, “It’s just a question of when, was it more recent or less recent?”
Musk hasn’t shied away from posting his thoughts or promoting other controversial posts on subjects like DEI and race. In the past, he has posted that…
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