Can someone please explain to Elon that civilization is neither western, nor white?

    by MrFenric

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    1. Tyrannical-Botanical on

      Yeah, turns out there were people living in New Zealand before white people got around to finding it.

    2. People that are afraid of becoming a minority are afraid of the future majority treating them as horribly as they are treating the current minority.

    3. That’s like trying to convince the KKK to accept black people. The guy is a racist dipshit.

      In fact, the “paypal mafia oligarchs” are orchestrating a lot of what is going on in right-wing US politics right now.

    4. Kiwis have always had a huge Maori population…wtf. I’m Australian, so we get plenty of people moving between both countries, and I can honestly say it’s weirder to hear a Kiwi accent from a white person than it is a Maori/Islander. And it’s been that way for as long as I can remember.

    5. Erm. Isn’t New Zealand as far east as you can get? Go any further and you hit the date line and switch to west, but it is and has always been an eastern country with a significant native population.

    6. The more he falls behind in self-driving and robotics the more racist bullshit he spews.

      At some point his investors – who are just as large piles of racist shit – will figure out he’s full of it and put their money elsewhere. Hopefully this happens soon.

    7. Thedudewiththedog on

      I mean as a (white) resident of New Zealand, this isn’t a problem more cultures in New Zealand has done a lot of good for us.

    8. TheRealCeeBeeGee on

      Ah yes, New Zealand, very full of foreigners, ie the British, who arrive hundreds of years after the Māori. They’re called First Nations for a reason, dipshit.

    9. Xelloss_Metallium_00 on

      The only reason white people scattered everywhere was colonization. He only exists because of blood emeralds. I’m so tired of white fragility, and I’m saying this aa a fully white, European ancestry, woman.

    10. So by this definition “Western Civilization” is just the Europeans living in the west. What about all the other people that are part of “Western Civilization”? The subtext here is that he doesn’t see non Europeans as being civilized.
      And I guess he thinks any western country that stops having a majority European population it becomes. What? What does it become Elron?

      It is funny to see this though because I’ve had people try to tell me that New Zealand is a super white country a few times recently, and then quote me statistics on % of Europeans.
      Which is really weird because people don’t seem to understand that you are completely capable of being multiple ethnicities. For instance, I am Māori, and I am European. I make up part of *both* statistics.
      Just because someone shows up in a statistic as European, it does not mean that they are white, at all.

    11. Let’s also not neglect how much of this vaunted “Western Civilization” bs he spouts comes from natives, people of color, immigrants, slavery, and colonization. This weird, ahistorical idea that white people civilized anything is so prevalent in white supremacy circles, backed by absolutely nothing!

    12. It would be my understanding that there would be damn near no europeans living in an island across the planet. Hope that helps

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