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Michael Hiltzik: Elon Musk is an antisemite. What can anyone do about it?

SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer Awards ceremony, in Berlin, on December 1, 2020.

The question of how you solve a problem like Elon Musk has crossed the line from an amusing little parlor game to an issue with serious implications for anyone doing business with him, including major corporations and the U.S. government.

Little that Musk says or does escapes popular notice, but a tweet he posted Wednesday on X, the platform he owns which was formerly known as Twitter, is in a category all his own.

Musk replied to a user's antisemitic accusing "Jewish communties" of "pushing the exact kind of ... hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them." The user went on to accuse "western Jewish populations" of supporting the flooding of the U.S. by "hordes of minorities."

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