He is worried about a lack of (white) people on this planet.

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    That’s a leap of logic. You are saying that since the human population is not collapsing on a global scale, the decline of population of particular countries is not a problem at all and you somehow associate a donation made by Musk to address this issue with racism. Even the author of the article admits she doesn’t know exactly what the money is being used for:

    The specificities of what Musk’s $10 million will accomplish remain unclear, beyond Bloomberg’s report that PWI will use it to research fertility, economic growth, and the future of the human population.

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      He didn’t specify particular countries. He said that population collapse is the greatest threat to civilization (wonder who’s civilization he’s talking about there) and that there is a real population crisis.

      If he meant specific countries, why did he not say so?

      But sure, the guy who grew up in apartheid South Africa with a father who exploited black workers in an emerald mine and whose car company has repeatedly had problems with racism, the guy who once said that U.S. media and schools were racist against white and Asian people isn’t even a little bit racist.

      Believable.

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        If he meant specific countries, why did he not say so?

        The tweet from Musk that this article refers to is a response to another tweet that did mention specific countries, ie: Japan, US, China, Singapore, UK, Italy and South Korea. Half of them are primarily non white.

        But sure, the guy who grew up in apartheid South Africa with a father who exploited black workers in an emerald mine and whose car company has repeatedly had problems with racism, the guy who once said that U.S. media and schools were racist against white and Asian people isn’t even a little bit racist.

        He may very well be a racist, but this article makes a piss poor job to demonstrate the donation was influenced by racism.

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          The tweet from Musk that this article refers to is a response to another tweet that did mention specific countries, ie: Japan, US, China, Singapore, UK, Italy and South Korea. Half of them are primarily non white.

          But they are Asian and he’s good with Asians as I already showed you.

          Note none of them are countries with high black or brown populations. Can’t imagine why the tweet or Musk weren’t concerned about those.