Is he apologizing for the content (calling out the GOP for the racist bigots they are) or apologizing for saying it?
The only people who can't see the GOP is racist and bigoted are racists and bigots.
In principle, they are
all racists and bigots, but there are two factions of MAGA racists:
1. The old-fashioned racists, like Bannon and Loomer, who are against brown-skinned foreigners - or just against anybody not of European descent but for the time being focusing on those of them who are foreigners.
2. The tech-bro racists, like Musk, Ramaswamy and Sidharth, who are against entitled American racists who won't let them import the cheap labor
they need as cheap labor for their tech companies. (If it weren't for Musk laying off half the staff when he bought Twitter, one could imagine his claim that it was about a lack of manpower.)
It is peculiar that the arguments from the two kinds of racists are pretty similar:
1. The old-fashioned racists, who are mainly focussing on Indians right now, refer to the alleged innate primitive nature or that particular ethnicity: 'they all ◊◊◊◊ and bathe in and drink from the Ganges.' When their racism was still mainly focussed on Arabs, they usually made similar references to Islam.
2. The modern racists, the tech bros, refer to American culture praising the jock over the geek, portraying Americans as a nation of retards, of IQ-deficient entitled losers like Al Bundy. In other words,
IQ: The Democratically Purified Racism (Skeptic Report)
Sidharth has FAFOd. It is obvious that he isn't being very specific: 'When I said this, I was wrong because ...'
I think angrysoba is right about the second tweet looking
"awfully similar to the kind of confession seen at a Stalinist show trial."
It's the tweet from somebody who hasn't discovered anything wrong with what he wrote. It's the tweet from somebody who now fears the
consequences of having been open about what he thinks - and probably still thinks, but ... Like I said: FAFO.
New song from
The Dusty Show on YouTube today:
"**** Your Feelings!" (Elon Musk H-1B Visa Parody) Music Video, 2:34 min.
Dusty Smith is usually better than this. I hope he corrects the impression that this country song may give the old-fashioned MAGA racists, i.e. that Musk's H-1B staff are somehow guilty of taking jobs from Americans and not simply used as a cheap tool by techbros like Musk.
Unlike MAGA's old-fashioned racists, Dusty knows the difference, which shines through in the video: the living spaces and work conditions of Musk's H-1B staff. But I don't think the MAGA crowd will notice this. I fear that they will see the song as confirmation of their own bigotry.
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