When he invokes "rape and murder", "antithetical values", and the "imposition of laws and rules", he constructs Muslims as a population with an inherent disposition towards violence, misogyny and despotism. He holds Muslims apart as a uniquely distinct category of the human.
More than that, Musk appears to think that Muslims are a threat to western life: the anti-West, a powerful civilisational force destined to dominate and ultimately annihilate whiteness.
This racialisation serves an important ideological function. It allows asylum seekers, migrants and immigrants more broadly to be conflated with Muslims and for Musk to present demographic change as evidence of "demographic replacement" and "White genocide".
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Musk does not simply predict annihilatory violence. He frames it as both inevitable and morally necessary to respond proportionately.
https://www.populismstudies.org/...
White Genocide is a term coined by white supremacists for propaganda purposes as shorthand for one of the most deeply held modern white supremacist convictions: that the white race is ‘dying’ due to growing non-white populations and ‘forced assimilation,’ all of which are deliberately engineered and controlled by a Jewish conspiracy to destroy the white race. This same conviction can be seen in the most popular white supremacist slogan around the globe: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” White supremacists commonly claim that they must take action, even violent action, or the ‘white race’ will ‘perish from the Earth.’
They need to stop sugar coating what he is with weak ass headlines.
He's a fucking racist, narcissistic, ego maniac with a god complex. There, that's what the stupid headline should have said. FFS
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You'd think he'd be happy about that, considering that those are exactly the values he's pushing. Alas, muslims are "brown people" and Musk is a white supremacist.
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