Elon Musk’s defense of Scott Adams shows why he is misguided and dangerous | Siva Vaidhyanathan

When Adams makes a fool of himself, he mainly just harms himself. But Musk has the power to harm others

Even a cursory exploration of race and racism around the world would yield the conclusion that there is nothing simple about it. Racial identity and race-based oppression emerge, morph and erode in different ways in different parts of the world.

But leave it to Elon Musk to try to convince you that racism is simple and straightforward. Musk will tell you what is and is not racist". And he will explain to you which institutions are racist and to whom.

Siva Vaidhyanathan is a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy