When it comes to Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk's political beliefs, they've skewed all over the map over the years, making many wonder what exactly the controversial investor stands for.
His latest hot take involves the comic strip "Dilbert," which was removed from several U.S. newspapers over the weekend after an incendiary YouTube video from creator Scott Adams where he called Black Americans a "hate group" and urged white people to "get the hell away from them."
In the comments of a Twitter post from Monitoring Bias discussing Adams, Musk said "The media is racist."
But then in a second reply, he went on to say, "For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they're racist against whites and Asians. Same thing happened with elite colleges and high schools in America. Maybe they can try not being racist."
When another commenter in the thread said, "Adams' comments weren't good. But there's an element of truth to this...it's complicated. Mainly we've leaned into identity with predictable results, and power today is complicated. We were on the right path with colorblindness and need to return to it," Musk replied, "Exactly."
Monitoring Bias describes itself in its Twitter bio as "Independent and data-driven and unwoke. Monitoring hyperpartisan thinking, culture wars, and institutional bias against white and Asian people in America."
It's no surprise that Musk waded into the comments, as he's mentioned "wokeness" in the past, calling it "the woke mind virus" in a tweet in April 2022.
So for those thinking that Musk, who has described himself as politically moderate in the past, is leaning further to the right than ever before these days, you might just have something there.
