The ADL doesn’t like Musk’s humour.
The Anti Defamation League has turned on Elon Musk after just days after defending the Tesla billionaire over his controversial inauguration salute.
The ADL – which works to combat antisemitism – initially gave Musk the benefit of the doubt over an ‘awkward’ hand gesture he performed twice after Donald Trump‘s inauguration, which some have compared to a Nazi salute.
But after the ADL deemed the action was ‘not a Nazi salute’ and asked the public to show Musk ‘some grace’ over his odd display in a ‘moment of enthusiasm’, the DOGE leader sparked new fury with a series of Nazi puns.
‘Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop G?ring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!’ Musk wrote.
‘Bet you did nazi that coming,’ he added in a final pun.
His post made light of the names of Adolf Hitler’s Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess; Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels; Reichstag President Hermann Göring; and Schutzstaffel (SS) Commander Heinrich Himmler.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt has now condemned the off-color remarks.
‘We’ve said it hundreds of times before and we will say it again: the Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it,’ he wrote.
Get a grip. We’ve been making jokes about the Nazis since Colonel Bogey. Making jokes about the Nazis is not making light of the holocaust. These people really are thick. Actually, the puns are amusing.
I think it’s hilarious. It shows he knows his history.
I think Musk doesn’t care a fig for the virtue signalling of the Great and Good. And that upsets the pearl clutchers because they have nothing else.
For a long time the ADL have been generic leftist virtue signallers rather than dedicated defenders of American Jews. They allowed themselves to be hollowed out by the Left and therefore I take little notice of what they have to say.
They should be careful.
Musk might set Lieutenant Herbert Gruber on them with his little tank.
Get Herr Flick on the case.
It must really piss off the Leftists that they can’t cancel Musk or Rowling because they have enough cash to not give a flying fuck.
I have nothing worth taking so l don’t give a flying fuck either
There was a huge amount of piss taking went on as I was growing up. Being part of the post war generation, we didn’t really understand it, getting most of our info from war movies. I can remember Hitler being lampooned by Freddie Star and Spike Milligan well into the 1970s and of course there was Allo Allo.
It is a bit rich getting lectures about the seriousness of the Holocaust by latter day Jew haters whose politics contain aspects of National Socialism.
I once met a survivor of the Shoah who had a great line in WWII / Hitler jokes. Some of them were so extreme that even I ws thinking ‘bugger me that’s going a bit too far’. I also tell WWII jokes at the expense of the Germans. I’m dreading my kid ever having a German exchange student in his school or having lessons on WWII as I just know he’ll make some musically based reference to Hitler’s uni-testicular status/ mention the war when told not to
But I’m so glad they explained it to us
The so called Nazi Salute is in fact the Roman military salute