Indifference allows the hate to spread

Some commentators dismiss the possibility of Elon Musk’s heart being a cinderous coil of hatred on the basis of the inability to truly know what burns in any person’s heart. This works out perfectly for antisemites like Elon Musk, the richest person in the world.

Elon Musk is an antisemite. Period. How do I know? I know because of this:

There are so many other examples. I know from his words and his deeds, and that is the only measure that counts. Here’s another idea. The US government needs to either get out of business with Space X, or Space X needs to get out business with Elon Musk. Let’s keep mankind’s oldest hate here on Earth and leave the heavens for our more worthy descendants who can combine the scientific and moral qualities necessary for meaningful exploration.

Elon Musk is treated like a head of state in the United States and everywhere he goes in the world when he should, in fact, be treated like a pancreatic cancer. He is a bigot. His public square is a sewer. It is Berlin in 1938. Its digital streets are filled with digital mobs of “little Eichmanns” and brown-shirted SA with X handles instead of swastika armbands. 

Everywhere there is Jew hate. The only difference is the propaganda posters aren’t plastered on walls. They are digitally rendered as both predicate and consequence —opening act and encore — in a never ending story.

Congressman Dan Goldman’s Brooklyn, NY, office was defaced on November 17, 2023

Graffiti plastered outside Canter’s Deli in Los Angeles, CA

Some 250 Stars of David were tagged on buildings throughout Paris

2023 marks 100 years since Adolf Hitler staged his coup in Bavaria. He was sentenced to a short prison term during which he wrote “Mein Kampf,” the book that has long been reported to be the only one that ever interested Trump.

Hitler carried out his madness when he became dictator 10 years later.  The hate, dehumanization, concentration camps, deportations, state violence and political murder built until 1942, when the plans were formally laid. Those plans would set in motion the destiny of one of humanity’s greatest figures, who was then a boy in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania.

My life would intersect with his for a few days in 2005. I would have the immense privilege of traveling to Auschwitz for the 60th anniversary of its liberation as part of an American delegation that was filled with survivors from humanity’s greatest act of evil. Those days have made all the difference for me. I was profoundly changed by the experience. In fact, the short visit may have been the defining moment of my life outside the births of my children. It is a place that can have no other impact for it is an epicenter of unrequited evil that will never abate. What happened there was real. It was manifestly barbarous, immoral and criminal, but it was beyond that. It was industrialized murder by a modern state in the 5th decade of the 20th century. Each Jewish body that had a gold-tooth filling was looted and desecrated before it was turned to ash. The children’s shoes were saved for return to the Reich as was the vast mountains of human hair shaved from the heads of Jewish women, children and men.

Linda Yaccarino is the CEO of X. She is paid $6 million per year, which seems an appropriate amount of money to run X, the world’s largest antisemitic cesspool. It’s a dollar for each murdered Jew at the hands of Hitler’s Thousand-Year Reich. It’s also a perfect reminder about the moral degeneracy required, and the indifference necessary, to sustain working for a poisonous man like Elon Musk.

Yaccarino’s indifference is worse than Musk’s hate:

Indifference is what allows the hate to spread. Hate cannot move without it. There has always been hatred, and as Dr. King pointed out, hate cannot be conquered by hate. Darkness cannot be driven out with darkness. Only light can conquer darkness. Only love can conquer hate, but it isn’t hate that is the opposite of love. It is indifference.

Hate festers always, but it cannot grow without the oxygen of indifference. Hate requires indifference to move and creep. What has always fueled indifference towards decency, morality and humanity in America is money. There can be no example more vivid than the obscenity of America’s billionaire class toasting the Chinese strongman in San Francisco at a dinner not quite important enough for the antisemite Musk, who flitted off from the preceding cocktail party hours earlier.

Below may well be the most important speech of the 20th century. It is in some manner a closing statement from humanity’s deadliest century that was ending in an age of American hegemony, peace, prosperity and optimism. It is a warning and a profound moral teaching from Elie Wiesel, a humanitarian giant and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

I accompanied Elie Wiesel to Auschwitz when I was 34 years old as part of the official delegation of the Government of the United States headed by the vice president of the United States. Among the legendary Americans, moral giants and tough-as-nails women of principle who made up this delegation were Congressman Tom Lantos and his wife, both survivors, Lynne and Liz Cheney and Victoria Nuland.

We left for Auschwitz from Krakow on sprinter vans in a motorcade on a freezing Polish January day. Exactly 60 years had passed since the Soviet Red Army came across the hideous crimes in a place that will forever remain singular in its legacy of murder and organized evil. It is the pinnacle of man’s capacity to destroy humanity with an evil indifference towards everything of consequence. It is the blackest of all places. There is no redemption there. There is nothingness except the lesson. The lesson must be experienced because the lesson is that evil is real and antisemitism is the evil that never abates, but must always be fought.

I don’t remember what Elie Wiesel and the Lantos’ talked about besides the histrionics of Putin at the first commemoration ceremony, where he stormed in front of the recently poisoned and duly elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. I do remember the mood quieting, and then a foreboding descending as we went towards the land where the camps and sub-camps were connected by rail and misery.

Then we were there.

I will always remember being astonished to see the home of SS Obersturmbannführer and executed war criminal Rudolf Höss’ house. It was in private hands and a Polish family lived there. Mrs. Höss described the home as a type of “paradise.” She feted all of the Reich royalty there, including a visit by Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler himself, who came to see the progress and was deeply impressed by her new hating sociopathic SS husband. This home and the story of the Höss’ is soon to become better known through the highly-acclaimed release of “The Zone of Interest,” which tells the story.

Standing inside the surviving gas chamber with Holocaust survivors in Auschwitz 1 is beyond a memorable experience. It is a foundational one. It is core to my being because, in that moment, I became blind to a sacred trust as a witness. I talked to Elie Wiesel about this later. It is a trust that I will never fail, and I must insist that you measure up. “Never Again” means something very profound.

We are Americans who are alive at the end of the long lives of the men and women who survived the camps and stormed the beaches. We owe them our fortitude and defiance. We owe them our love, and we owe them a searing anger toward the indifference in our country to the Jew hate wrought by a barbarism equivalent to the Nazi pogroms and Einsatzgruppen mobile killers, who lacked the cell phones, but not the glee of their latter day Hamas brethren who have ignited the inferno.

You see, it is, as always, the murdered Jewish baby who is guilty for her own murder. Always, there is a reason to murder the Jew. Always. Since time immemorial the hatreds and furies have combined, and no matter where there have been Jews, they have been unsafe. Everywhere a Jew has ever been, a Jew has been murdered for being a Jew, including the Jews killed in Pittsburgh at the Tree of Life synagogue. There, a white nationalist blew away 11 people at Shabbat services with an AK-47 and a manifesto declaring he would kill in the name of the exact same smear, conspiracy and racial slurs being proffered to the American people by the richest man on the planet, who wants to save humanity by leading us to Mars and implanting neural chips in human brains, while spreading murderous hate drenched in the blood and ashes of millions. It is beyond an obscenity.

By the way, will anyone on CNBC ask anyone on the X, Space X and/or Tesla boards to make a comment about any of this? If not, why not?

What is the appropriate amount of stock options to award the indifference of someone like Yaccarino, who denies the obvious for more, more and more. She is like the Germans at Theresienstadt, who toured the immoral and clueless at the International Red Cross through the show camp with bread-stuffed windows, where the Jews had it better than they could ever deserve. There, they were happy. The children went to school, and there was even a vast cultural arts program. The world wanted to see what the Nazis wanted it to see. This is Yaccarino’s American moment. She is the rich cynic who so many Elise Stefaniks aspire to be. What a time to be a taker with no compass in America with a talent for indifference towards antisemitism.

Birkenau is where Josef Mengele waited on the platform for the selections. The crematoria and ovens were gone. The Nazis tried to cover up their crimes and horrors. Each inch of ground is sacred. It is the ashen remnant of the murdered, packed and compressed into the totality of all the visible earth. Everywhere is the evidence of what happened. The air hangs with an awfulness and malevolence that is suffocating. The crematoria linger as ghosts; the buildings are made to look beautiful. They were the ones with flower boxes on them. The showers were to be a calm and happy place. In the end, the lies accumulate until they cover every instant of life from birth to death and the moments in between right up to the moment of death itself. Cynicism, lies, hate and indifference all entangle at the end.

The ceremony ended after darkness fell on a frigid night. The train tracks survived. The tracks where the Jews were unloaded has endured. A great spotlight was affixed in a cart, and it created the effect of a train arriving from the distance, drawing closer and closer.

The sound effects surrounded the audience. We stood silent, human beings from scores of nations who spoke different languages, but needed no translation to understand what was happening. The sound of the train drew closer until there was a night exhale of pent up steam and the explosion of hydraulic breaks pulling thousands of tons of flimsy wood and steel to a stop. The hisses and creaks were all there. We stood there all of us on that night — world leaders, media, political staffers, military aides and survivors in total absolute silence and awe. Never again. Yet, here we are.

The only person who I have ever met that I asked to sign something for me was Elie Wiesel. I asked him to sign programs of the commemoration for my daughter and children yet born so that when their time came they would be witnesses also, and they would understand the moral burden of history placed on America and them as citizens of the republic.

The world erupted on October 7, and the poisonous cloud billowing from the caldera is antisemitism. The lava melting everything in its path is a hatred as old as history. It is antisemitism. There has only ever been one type of society where Jews have been safe. Democracy.

When democracies start to die they become unsafe for Jews. When the rainforest falls out of harmony and the pollution and destruction accumulate, the bird songs stop and the butterflies die. So it is with the Jews — democracy’s canaries in the coal mine.

Elie Wiesel was the greatest man I have ever been in the physical presence of. The experience changed me, and deepened my appreciation for many things. He survived, I believe, so that we may all survive. He was a prophet of humanity in a time during which indifference has always closely stalked justice and peace.

Elon Musk is what he is. What is worse is the disgusting indifference around him. There is a better path. Listen to Elie Wiesel. Let him guide you and help you save all of America.

Many of you ask what you can do. Do as he says in a way that works for you. Do not allow indifference towards what is right ever enter your heart.

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