The 'Subhuman' Hate of Elon Musk
Elon Musk and his X platform are fostering a growing global crisis of on and offline hatred, reports Heidi Sigmund Cuda
Content Warning: This report contains examples of violent hate speech proliferating on Musk’s X platform.
The quote-tweet of a racist post by Andrew Tate “did not violate [X] policies”.
It reads: “N***ers are subhumans”.
The asterisks are mine. The full word, written in Polish, was viewable in translation.
Other reported hate speech included:
“Get out of Poland, jewry”
“Putin’s security services would not allow such an oversight. Why? Because [i.e. in Russia] there are no lesbians, faggots, and invalids. And that’s how it should be.”
“Fuck gender. Fuck perverted whores. Fuck transvestites. [Load] these whores into the furnace!!!!!”
“During Le Pen's [rule] I hope they'll start shooting n***ers with live ammo, and if not, get out to Africa to their shit houses”.
“Gas the jews!”
Such vile words have become standard fare in the darkest corners of the internet, but each of these examples — a small sampling taken from a new Polish report — can be found on X/Twitter — and only one was flagged as a violation of the platform's terms of service. But even that comment, like the others, are all still visible — the accounts still erupting with speakable and targeted hate.
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