Musk shares submit that Hitler didn’t kill thousands and thousands; public staff did. Union rages

Employees blasted DOGE hatchet man Elon Musk Thursday after he reposted a startling message on X declaring that “Hitler didn’t homicide thousands and thousands of individuals. Public sector workers did.”

Lee Saunders, union president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Staff of the AFL-CIO, fired off a livid response saying: “America’s public service staff — our nurses, academics, firefighters, librarians — selected making our communities secure, wholesome and robust over getting wealthy. They aren’t, because the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers.”

He added: “Elon Musk and the billionaires on this administration don’t know what actual individuals undergo day-after-day. That’s why he’s so keen to take a chainsaw to individuals’s jobs, Medicaid, Social Safety and Medicare.”

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It was solely the most recent of Musk’s disturbing cases of sidling as much as Hitler as he appeared to excuse the actions of the architect of the Holocaust that murdered 6 million Jews and others to choose on public workers, whose jobs he has reduce by the hundreds since Donald Trump took workplace.

Sarcastically, he retweeted the Hitler submit simply days after the Trump administration introduced it was withholding some $4 million in grants and contracts from Columbia College for failing to squelch pro-Gaza protests on the expense of Jewish college students, indicating the demonstrations had been antisemitic.

Some 150 of pro-Palestinian protesters, lots of them Jewish, poured into Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan Thursday to help former Columbia Palestinian pupil Mahmoud Kahil, who was arrested for for organizing a campus demonstration in protection of Gaza.

“Not in our title,” learn the crimson t-shirts worn by the protesters, who shouted “Struggle Nazis, not college students.” Police arrested some 100 of the protesters. Khalil and different pupil on Thursday sued Columbia to dam congressional entry to pupil data because the college threatened to expel or droop campus protesters.

Musk, who was born and raised in apartheid South Africa, triggered an early uproar when he notoriously flashed what gave the impression to be a Nazi salute at an occasion marking the Inauguration in January.

He later mocked outrage over the gesture with a collection of unfunny Nazi “puns” that includes Hitler’s prime aides, together with: “Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!” and “Some individuals will Goebbels something down!” He additionally wrote: “Cease Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler! “

Musk concluded: “Guess you probably did nazi that coming,” with a laughing-to-tears emoji.

The top of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League ripped Musk’s Nazi “jokes,” noting that the Holocaust was a “singularly evil occasion, and it’s inappropriate and offensive to make mild of it.”

Public staff had been hardly the one Individuals bowled over by Musk’s repost.