Civil Rights Groups Horrified at Elon Musk's Racist Outburst Against Black People

Futurism via Yahoo ^ | January 13th, 2024 | Victor Tangermann

[Mariner]

Earlier this week, multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk endorsed a tweet suggesting Black students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have lower IQs and shouldn't become pilots.

"It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE," he tweeted, intentionally mixing up the letters of the acronym for "diversity, equity, and inclusion."

Civil rights groups were understandably horrified at the billionaire's racist comments.

"The only thing anyone needs to hear from Musk about diversity in the workplace is an apology," Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, told NBC News, calling his statements "abhorrent and pathetic."

In his tweets, Musk appeared to imply that HBCU students shouldn't be allowed to become pilots. However, neither his statement nor the tweet he was responding to stand up to virtually any degree of scrutiny, from made-up average IQ numbers to wrongfully correlating high SAT scores with high IQ.

[Colo9250]

Just take a look at our Secretary of Defense.

[dforest]

Notice how they took what Elon said and made it what they wanted it to mean.

[Svartalfiar]

He is, but African-American and black are not the same

[caver]

“Notice how they took what Elon said and made it what they wanted it to mean.”

If they didn’t do that, they would be out of a “job”.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

It's difficult to find the twitter thread containing the original post and Musk's reply:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1744821656990675184

If airlines hire some applicants from black colleges, they don't necessarily hire all of them. Maybe some of the black graduates are brilliant.

Which graduates do the airlines and aircraft manufacturers hire? Which ones does the FAA hire? We need to know exactly how airlines' hiring practices work, but twitter and the airlines don't really want to explain that. Does the FAA use DEI?

[GOPJ]

ONLY HIRE ON MERIT.

This isn't anti-black - it's anti intentionally hiring people who are incompetent BECAUSE they're black. Lots of black citizens can be pilots and air controllers based on merit. Just NOT as many as WOKE idiots want...