{"id":1141095,"date":"2021-12-22T08:58:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141095"},"modified":"2021-12-22T08:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:58:03","slug":"elon-musk-at-its-heart-wokeness-is-divisive-exclusionary-and-hateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-at-its-heart-wokeness-is-divisive-exclusionary-and-hateful\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: \u2018At Its Heart Wokeness Is Divisive, Exclusionary And Hateful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-at-its-heart-wokeness-is-divisive-exclusionary-and-hateful%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141095&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BaRKd4U6Ixg\">interview<\/a> with Elon Musk that debuted Tuesday evening, the Babylon Bee boys brought the funny, as expected. But what viewers might not anticipate is just how many compelling, thoughtful answers their questions managed to elicit from the billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>The group started out sharing a laugh over classic Bee headlines, with Musk quipping that it\u2019s \u201cactually true that Gavin Newsom is U-Haul salesman of the year.\u201d But the world\u2019s richest man quickly grew pensive, reflecting on what has happened in recent years to the state he once called home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia used to be the land of opportunity. Now it has become sort of the land of over-regulation, over-litigation, and scorn,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Collapse of Comedy and the Woke Mind Virus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the collapse of California, the discussion turned to the collapse of mainstream comedy, which Musk ascribed to an unwillingness to punch left, no matter how warranted. That, he explained is how he became a Babylon Bee fan \u2014 because satire sites like The Onion began to focus more on upholding a liberal narrative than telling jokes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt used to be much more evenhanded, the Onion,\u201d Musk said. \u201cAnd then they just got the woke mind virus.\u201d He had much the same criticism of Saturday Night Live, a show he guest-hosted in May, much to the consternation of several cast members who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-snl-members-freak-out-about-appearing-with-elon-musk-show-tells-them-they-can-skip-it\">publicly objected<\/a> to his appearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany if not most of the SNL episodes have become are kind of a moral lecture of why we\u2019re bad human beings instead of comedy,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThey\u2019ll beat up on Ted Cruz 17,000 times and you\u2019re like, okay we get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue, he believes, is one of authenticity. \u201cIs the comedy getting at an essential truth or is there a propaganda element?\u201d he asked rhetorically, suggesting most mainstream comedy these days is committed to the latter. \u201cWhen it stops trying to get to an essential truth that is humorous, you know, it\u2019s just not that funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk views The Bee, in contrast, as moderately right. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly not far-right. It wouldn\u2019t be accurate to say the Bee is fully centrist, but it\u2019s certainly not far-right. The Bee is less right than say the Onion is left,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As to why the Onion and SNL have become so left when they did not start out that way? Musk pointed to what he called \u201carguably one of the biggest threats to modern civilization.\u201d That is, wokeness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWokeness basically wants to make comedy illegal,\u201d he stated, \u201cTrying to shut down Chappelle, come on man, that\u2019s crazy. Do we want a humorless society that is simply rife with condemnation and hate basically? At it\u2019s heart wokeness is divisive exclusionary and hateful it basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Economics and Business 101<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For all the jokes that the Babylon Bee injected into the conversation, the funnymen asked some pointed, journalistic questions that few mainstream reporters have ever explored with Musk about his wealth, leading to a surprising financial education for viewers. Democrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have increasingly targeted Musk, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWarren\/status\/1470415896053227522?s=20\">accusing<\/a> him of being a \u201cfreeloader\u201d and benefiting from a \u201crigged tax code.\u201d Musk set the record straight with a quick tutorial on the free market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Tesla and Space X went bankrupt, I would go bankrupt too. Immediately,\u201d he explained. \u201cI built these two companies and it was extremely difficult to build them\u2026 Rewarding too, but massively painful and difficult.\u201d He then revealed that he never sold the stock that made him worth $200 billion because he believes a CEO has a moral imperative to have skin in the game with his investors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy impression was that you shouldn\u2019t take money off the table\u2026 and de-risk things, that the captain should go down with the ship,\u201d he said. If he had and the companies failed, he explained, he\u2019d have been enriched while investors suffered. \u201cThat does not seem right. That\u2019s the reason I didn\u2019t sell. Even when bankruptcy was literally weeks away, I did not sell stock,\u201d Musk said. \u201cAnd then the companies became valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the many millions of Americans who haven\u2019t had an adequate course in financial literacy, Musk clarified how his net worth is calculated and why the market has decided what his companies\u2019 value:<\/p>\n<p><em>Tesla and Space X\u2019s value is not up to me. It\u2019s up to investors. And they decided Tesla was worth a trillion dollars. And I own 20 percent of the company.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>People don\u2019t understand that this is not some function of hoarding. It\u2019s simply that I own 20 percent of company that suddenly became very valuable as decided by external investors. And so 20 percent of a trillion dollar valuation is 200 billion dollars. I\u2019ve said at times that I think the stock price is too high and the investors just ignore that. They just kept making the price<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their interview with Elon Musk that debuted Tuesday evening, the Babylon Bee boys brought the funny, as expected. But what viewers might not anticipate is just how many compelling, thoughtful answers their questions managed to elicit from the billionaire.The group started out sharing a laugh over classic Bee headlines, with Musk quipping that it\u2019s \u201cactually true that Gavin Newsom is U-Haul salesman of the year.\u201d But the world\u2019s richest man quickly grew pensive, reflecting on what has happened in recent years to the state he once called home.\u201cCalifornia used to be the land of opportunity. Now it has become sort of the land of over-regulation, over-litigation, and scorn,\u201d he observed.The Collapse of Comedy and the Woke Mind VirusFrom the collapse of California, the discussion turned to the collapse of mainstream comedy, which Musk ascribed to an unwillingness to punch left, no matter how warranted. That, he explained is how he became a Babylon Bee fan \u2014 because satire sites like The Onion began to focus more on upholding a liberal narrative than telling jokes.\u201cIt used to be much more evenhanded, the Onion,\u201d Musk said. \u201cAnd then they just got the woke mind virus.\u201d He had much the same criticism of Saturday Night Live, a show he guest-hosted in May, much to the consternation of several cast members who publicly objected to his appearance.\u201cMany if not most of the SNL episodes have become are kind of a moral lecture of why we\u2019re bad human beings instead of comedy,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThey\u2019ll beat up on Ted Cruz 17,000 times and you\u2019re like, okay we get it.\u201dThe issue, he believes, is one of authenticity. \u201cIs the comedy getting at an essential truth or is there a propaganda element?\u201d he asked rhetorically, suggesting most mainstream comedy these days is committed to the latter. \u201cWhen it stops trying to get to an essential truth that is humorous, you know, it\u2019s just not that funny.\u201dMusk views The Bee, in contrast, as moderately right. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly not far-right. It wouldn\u2019t be accurate to say the Bee is fully centrist, but it\u2019s certainly not far-right. The Bee is less right than say the Onion is left,\u201d he said.As to why the Onion and SNL have become so left when they did not start out that way? Musk pointed to what he called \u201carguably one of the biggest threats to modern civilization.\u201d That is, wokeness.\u201cWokeness basically wants to make comedy illegal,\u201d he stated, \u201cTrying to shut down Chappelle, come on man, that\u2019s crazy. Do we want a humorless society that is simply rife with condemnation and hate basically? At it\u2019s heart wokeness is divisive exclusionary and hateful it basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.\u201dEconomics and Business 101For all the jokes that the Babylon Bee injected into the conversation, the funnymen asked some pointed, journalistic questions that few mainstream reporters have ever explored with Musk about his wealth, leading to a surprising financial education for viewers. Democrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have increasingly targeted Musk, accusing him of being a \u201cfreeloader\u201d and benefiting from a \u201crigged tax code.\u201d Musk set the record straight with a quick tutorial on the free market.\u201cIf Tesla and Space X went bankrupt, I would go bankrupt too. Immediately,\u201d he explained. \u201cI built these two companies and it was extremely difficult to build them\u2026 Rewarding too, but massively painful and difficult.\u201d He then revealed that he never sold the stock that made him worth $200 billion because he believes a CEO has a moral imperative to have skin in the game with his investors.\u201cMy impression was that you shouldn\u2019t take money off the table\u2026 and de-risk things, that the captain should go down with the ship,\u201d he said. If he had and the companies failed, he explained, he\u2019d have been enriched while investors suffered. \u201cThat does not seem right. That\u2019s the reason I didn\u2019t sell. Even when bankruptcy was literally weeks away, I did not sell stock,\u201d Musk said. \u201cAnd then the companies became valuable.\u201dFor the many millions of Americans who haven\u2019t had an adequate course in financial literacy, Musk clarified how his net worth is calculated and why the market has decided what his companies\u2019 value:Tesla and Space X\u2019s value is not up to me. It\u2019s up to investors. And they decided Tesla was worth a trillion dollars. And I own 20 percent of the company.People don\u2019t understand that this is not some function of hoarding. It\u2019s simply that I own 20 percent of company that suddenly became very valuable as decided by external investors. And so 20 percent of a trillion dollar valuation is 200 billion dollars. I\u2019ve said at times that I think the stock price is too high and the investors just ignore that. They just kept making the price higher.My so-called wealth is not some deep mystery. It\u2019s simply, what is my ownership percentage of Space X and Tesla? Multiply that by the valuation, and that\u2019s my net worth. It\u2019s super simple. And my taxes are super simple. I have no off-shore accounts, no clever tax evasion or anything like that. I don\u2019t draw a cash salary or any bonus from the companies at all. And Musk\u2019s common-sense talk on the basics of capitalism didn\u2019t stop there.A hilarious conversation about his 2018 promise to start a candy company turned into a rumination on the purpose of businesses \u2014 which is not, as Democrats would often have it, to provide jobs, but to provide excellent products or services.\u201cIt\u2019s not that I care about starting companies,\u201d Musk said, \u201cIf there\u2019s a very compelling product or service, then that\u2019s the thing that\u2019s important, not the company. A company is just an assemblage of people\u2026 And if a company doesn\u2019t provide a great products or services, it shouldn\u2019t exist. There\u2019s no point of a company for the sake being a company,\u201d he concluded. \u201cThat\u2019s pointless.\u201dFans who want to hear even more from Musk, like his answers to the Bee interviewers on why, instead of phallic shaped rockets, he can\u2019t build more vaginal shaped options for equality\u2019s sake, will have to subscribe for the extended interview.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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