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Saturday, January 25, 2025
Elon Musk tells far-right AfD rally there’s ‘too much focus on past guilt’ in Germany
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Addressing a rally of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Halle, billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk says, “There is too much focus on past guilt (in Germany), and we need to move beyond that.”
“Children should not feel guilty for the sins of their parents – their great-grandparents even,” Musk adds.
The comments come after Musk made a straight-armed gesture during US President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday that many saw as a Nazi salute, though the antisemitism-fighting organization ADL called it instead an “awkward gesture.”
Musk has in the past shared white supremacist memes and theories on X that have drawn accusations of antisemitism.
????Nach der Unterstützung auf X und dem Space mit Alice Weidel (@Alice_Weidel) lässt sich Elon Musk (@elonmusk) auch zum Wahlkampfauftakt der AfD in Halle zuschalten. »Ich glaube, dass es sehr wichtig ist, dass die Menschen stolz darauf sind, Deutsche zu sein. Das ist sehr… pic.twitter.com/hOvisPGDw9
— Jan A. Karon (@jannibal_) January 25, 2025
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