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On Thursday, The New York Times dropped a hit piece about Elon Musk that would make Taylor Lorenz green with envy.
The Headline “Elon Musk’s Past, a South Africa Rife With Misinformation and White Privilege” was posted by the outlet with the tweet, “Elon Musk grew up in elite white communities in South Africa, detached from apartheid’s atrocities and surrounded by anti-Black propaganda. He sees his takeover of Twitter as a free speech win but in his youth did not suffer the effects of misinformation.”
The Times’ attempt to smear Musk as some kind of bigoted, apartheid-supporting racist was lackluster. Even its own reporting on the subject, as Townhall notes, managed to refute everything the headline and tweet were meant to suggest.
The internet was quick to pick up on the failed mudslinging and took the Times to task.
In this article NYT itself reports @elonmusk:\n\n1. Had non-white friends growing up in apartheid SA \n2. His own father was an ANTI-APARTHEID politician\n3. He literally left so he didn't have to serve in apartheid military\n\nThey still insinuate he is a racisthttps://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1522191917135638529\u00a0\u2026— Saagar Enjeti (@Saagar Enjeti) 1651758809
The article itself, which was obviously meant to paint Musk as a racist, literally says, “Black schoolmates recall that he spent time with Black friends.” It adds that his parents were members of the anti-apartheid Progressive Party, and that, instead of participating in South Africa’s mandatory military service—which “would have forced him to participate in the apartheid regime”—he left the country after high school.
Even critics of Musk came to his defense in light of this obvious hatchet job.
OK I am one of Elon's big critics when it comes to Tesla\n\nThis piece makes me think MORE highly of him\nLESS highly of NYT. It reads: \n\nArea man born in very BAD setup\ndoes very GOOD thingshttps://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1522191917135638529\u00a0\u2026— Josh Wolfe (@Josh Wolfe) 1651775297
And Mama Musk.
In South Africa, if you publicly opposed apartheid, you went to jail. In Russia, if you publicly oppose the war, you go to jail. @nytimes are you going to blame children for decisions made by governments? #StopTheWar https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1522191917135638529\u00a0\u2026— Maye Musk (@Maye Musk) 1651772284
The egregiousness of the headline sparked some to reinterpret it to spotlight the grotesque logic of the piece as a whole.
The New York Times: "Elon Musk didn't end apartheid in South Africa as a child, therefore he is evil now."— Tim Young (@Tim Young) 1651758869
Strangely enough, although they didn’t choose to go with the aforementioned suggested headline, they did choose to go in and change it after some of the backlash.
Some editing going on this afternoon https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-south-africa.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/SGFQLNJIO9— Tom Gara (@Tom Gara) 1651775824
The vitriol the media has decided to unleash on Musk since his purchase of Twitter is truly astonishing, and he hasn’t even taken over the platform yet! This piece was meant for those libs who never read past the headlines, who immediately retweet it with comments decrying Musk as a bigot out to unleash right-wing hate on Twitter. Luckily, they were caught in the act.
However, I seriously doubt it will do anything to dissuade the empty-headed leftists who have already made up their minds about the once climate change warrior, leftist darling.
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May 06, 2022 at 10:18AM - Joseph Gunderson
NYT Uses Apartheid for Elon Musk Hit Piece, Gets Promptly Destroyed by Critics
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