“I’m aspirationally Jewish,” Musk said. “So I was like, ‘What are people talking about with this antisemitism?’ Because I never hear it at dinner conversations."
Elon Musk said he is “Jewish by association” during a conversation with conservative commentator Ben Shapiro after a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.
Musk, the Tesla CEO and owner of social media platform X, made the comments during a conference on antisemitism organized by the European Jewish Association. The association had arranged for Musk to make a private visit to Auschwitz, where an estimated 1.1 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust.
“I must admit to being somewhat frankly naive about this. In the circles that I move, I see almost no antisemitism. … Two-thirds of my friends are Jewish,” the billionaire tech mogul said in a video posted on YouTube by Bloomberg Technology. “I have twice as many Jewish friends as non-Jewish friends. I’m like Jewish by association.”
He thinks because he’s got a single Ben Shapiro, he’s got “twice as many Jewish friends” because all his other “friends” have zero Jewish friends.
I would say “That’s not how that math works out” but math has clearly never been his strong suit.
I’m a Jew and I have yet to meet another Jew who has any respect whatsoever for Ben Shapiro.
And, “some of my best friends are Jews/Blacks/Gays/etc.” is the oldest line in the bigot book.
I didn’t say as much because I kind of thought that was a given. Dude’s not even trying. Most half-ass transparent shit ever.
Actually I read this all the other way, like he was trying to suggest something by being one of richest in the world he was “jew-ish” and that two thirds of this rich person’s friends are Jewish.
I second all of this.
The only respect I have for Ben Shapiro comes from his collection of Seforim.
Though that might be more envy than respect, those things are expensive.
“I’m not racist because, you see. My cat is black.”
That’s how this line reads to me anyway.