The New York Times was blasted on Thursday for running a “hit piece” suggesting that Elon Musk’s childhood in apartheid South Africa made him indifferent to racism and that it cou…
Times correspondents John Eligon and Lynsey Chutel reported that Musk benefited from an “upbringing in elite, segregated white communities” in suburban Johannesburg, “where black people were rarely seen other than in service of white families living in palatial homes.”
The Times article quotes experts as saying that Musk’s upbringing in South Africa may have affected his views on racism and could offer a glimpse into how he will run Twitter. Twitter users blasted the Times story as a “hit piece” and said that the billionaire’s childhood during apartheid — when the South African government imposed a system of race-based segregation and discrimination — shouldn’t reflect poorly on him.
Critics blasted the Times for “insinuating” that Musk was racist because he grew up white during apartheid.
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