Senior Reporter, HuffPost
Elon Musk , tasked earlier this year with firing thousands of federal workers across the United States, shared a post that blamed “public sector employees” for mass killings committed under Adolf Hitler and other dictators.
The Thursday repost on Musk’s X account read: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”Along with Hitler, the post referred to Josef Stalin, the communist dictator of the Soviet Union until 1953, and Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, who was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions through starvation and disease.
Musk later deleted the repost, but not before X users and others condemned Musk’s apparent defense of dictators responsible for genocide and mass murder. “It is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to elevate the kind of rhetoric that serves to undermine the seriousness of these issues,” the Anti-Defamation LeagueMusk’s disturbing repost targeting public sector workers comes at a time when the billionaire ― now in charge of the new, so-called Department of Government Efficiency ― has been responsible for the firings of thousands of federal workers.
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