Commentary: Even Grok thinks Elon Musk’s claim that white men are persecuted is bull

Who appointed Elon Musk as the loudest defender of white men?

From the moment the South African native took over what was once called Twitter in 2022, the world’s richest man has allowed neo-Nazi accounts to thrive while reiterating his insistence that white men are an endangered species as the world becomes more diverse and minorities seize positions of power.

In 2023, Musk accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of “openly pushing for genocide against white people in South Africa” ​​after political opponents sang an apartheid-era anti-Boer song during a rally. That same year, Musk posted, “You told the real truth,” to a user who claimed that Jews supported uncontrolled immigration to destroy Western civilization (read, white).

The mogul apologized for the chatter, calling it “the stupidest post I’ve ever made.” That hasn’t stopped him from getting even sillier since then.

Last year, the Grok feature of It cannot be said for sure who this might be. But Musk later stated in September that it was “brutal propaganda depicting white men as the worst people” that led some to transition to being women.

All this nonsense came at the beginning of this month, when Musk shared a post twice stating that men of color “will be 1,000 times more hostile and cruel when they are the majority vis-à-vis Whites.”

Say this for Musk: He knows the trends. And right now the idea that white men are the most oppressed group is the Labubu of American conservatism.

A widely read article in the online magazine Compact Generation Z tagged as white man The “lost generation” is adrift in a world where workplaces shun minorities in favor of them. Piece received approval New York Times columnist Ross Douhat added that the “simple” way to keep young white men from being vulnerable to racial radicalization is to “not discriminate against them” — whatever that means.

White men have worried about their place in a changing America ever since Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1784 that a divine “wheel of fortune revolution” against white people who embraced slavery was “likely.” White men’s fear of sunsetting fueled lynchings, legal segregation, legal and illegal anti-immigration laws, affirmative action lawsuits, and much more.

Their alleged plight has been a key part of Trump’s political career since his first term; but it became an obsession during his second term. His administration’s social media accounts regularly publish posts praising Daniel Boone and the days of Manifest Destiny, while using Norman Rockwell and Thomas Kinkade’s Ma and Pa American artworks to advance his own harmful agenda.

At the same time, as part of his deportation campaign, Trump has pushed the concept of forcing people not born in this country to return to the places of their birth. But according to this regime, it is not only foreigners who bring down the white man.

In December, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairwoman Andrea Lucas released a video encouraging white men: Negative White women who felt they were victims of workplace discrimination filed a lawsuit against the agency. Vice President J.D. Vance shared Lucas’ request on social media along with his Compact article, stating in his post on the latter that DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is “a program of intentional discrimination primarily against white men.”

For his part, Trump told the New York Times this month that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to help nonwhite American citizens fight decades of segregation and segregation, was a form of “reverse discrimination” in which “white people were treated very badly.”

As an outsider, I am as much amused as I am saddened by this industrial-scale pity party thrown by some of the most powerful men on the planet, white and otherwise.

When Trump and his allies claim to have the interests of white men in mind, they don’t actually mean sons of small-town Appalachia like Vance’s ancestors; They’re talking about white men like them: rich men who want to be richer. They preach racial solidarity while cutting funding for SNAP benefits and health care, which would disproportionately affect poor people of all ethnicities.

The Pew Research Center found that 51% of white Republicans without a college degree will vote for Trump in 2024; This is a significant drop from the 63% who did the same in 2016. No wonder the president and his allies insist on painting minorities as usurpers of the white American Dream. “If you can convince the bottom white man that he is better than the top black man, he won’t notice you picking his pocket,” LBJ said. “Damn it, give him someone to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

Personally, I can guarantee to all white men, especially blue-collar men, that the children of Latino immigrants I know do not plan to treat our fathers who immigrated to this country in the 1960s and 1970s the way some of your grandparents did. Our family didn’t come for us to transform Chilons – crying babies – those who want to take revenge for past sins.

In fact, many Latino men have sadly joined their white counterparts in the grievance Olympics, as evidenced by their tilt toward Trump in the 2024 election.

My cousins ​​and friends who should know better spent much of 2024 railing against me against transgender athletes, Kamala Harris, uncontrolled immigration from Central and South America, and other Fox News talking points when they didn’t mention the Dodgers and Raiders. Because none of them desired to be white Wokoso insisted on a post-election account of what happened; These rancho libertarians just wanted the fair shake that colorblind policies would supposedly offer, and so they threw their lot to Trump in a history-making decision.

(Insert “The Price is Right” here, losing the horn sound.)

Seeing that Trumpworld now limits men’s grievance to just whites threatens to destroy the Trump coalition in a year when they can’t afford to lose any more support.

Leave it to Grok to back me up on this. After Musk promoted the post claiming that men of color would be subservient to white men, a user asked the AI ​​chatbot: “@grok is this true?”

Grok’s response was as follows, with a lengthy edit but the context of what he said was ignored: “No, this claim aligns with the ‘white genocide’ conspiracy theory and has no evidence. … This is a speculative fear, not reality.”

Musk. Embers. Vance. Strong white men. Why are you so afraid?