# Elon “ Ready to serve” **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 20, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-ready-to-serve/1005939 "2024-08-20T11:31:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-ready-to-serve/1005939/61 "2024-08-26T22:12:09Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Second, he’s always had some white supremacist views, carried over from living in South Africa during Apartheid. I’ve personally known 3 whites that were born and raised in SA. Two, not during Apartheid - none related to each other. All three are pretty racist. I’m not broad-brushing but that’s my experience. I realize that there are issues there that are probably more difficult than I can grasp not having their background. ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-ready-to-serve/1005939/62 "2024-08-27T12:00:58Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > I’ve personally known 3 whites that were born and raised in SA. Two, not during Apartheid - none related to each other. All three are pretty racist. I’m not broad-brushing but that’s my experience. I realize that there are issues there that are probably more difficult than I can grasp not having their background. Hi I’m a white South African, and I can 99% guarantee that the racists you met, you met outside SA, and that their racism is the reason they left the country. Meanwhile I know lots of white South Africans, including friends who are Musk’s age. And guess what? they’re not racist. Even the racist white south African’s I know, mostly in-laws, are not as racist as Musk demonstratably is. Musk is not racist because he spent les than half his life in South Africa, he is racist because he is a racist surrounded by, and supported by, other racists. Excusing or explaining his racism by the fact that he was born in South Africa does a great disservice to the millions of South Africans who aren’t racist or those who have abandoned their racism. It is intellectually lazy and clearly a case of seeking to excuse the fact that Musk is a racist billionaire in the US because systemic issues supported and condoned it. Musk is a piece of shit that was allowed and encouraged to flower into a sewerage plant by, and in aide of, the culture he found himself in, in the US . ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-ready-to-serve/1005939/63 "2024-08-27T15:22:22Z")
Starlink on it’s own is fine as far as I know. It’s when he can apparently kill it for people he doesn’t lik such as the Ukrainians, then it’s a problem. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-ready-to-serve/1005939/64 "2024-08-29T16:57:32Z")
Surely it’s been like that for as long as it’s been in existence. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-ready-to-serve/1005939/65 "2024-08-29T18:11:48Z")
> Elon “ Ready to serve” I want the _curly_ fries with that; don’t screw it up… ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-ready-to-serve/1005939/66 "2024-09-10T04:21:17Z")
Sad really: [https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/a175cb60-8013-4e73-a736-22b8deaccb01\_l.jpg](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/a175cb60-8013-4e73-a736-22b8deaccb01_l.jpg) Embarrassing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-ready-to-serve/1005939.md?page=3)