The shooter was Latino and was a white supremacist.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mauricio-garcia-wh...
> Thanks to Elon Musk, I found a Garcia post where he tells the story of a “PC” Jewish chemistry teacher who tried to reason Garcia out of his Hitler worship by insisting that he isn’t white but Hispanic. He repeatedly taunts the poor woman, greeting her by saying “white power”, “Final Solution”, and giving her Nazi salutes.
Musk thought he was being very clever because he thought ‘Latino white supremacist’ was like ‘square circle’. It’s not. You can keep insisting that it’s a contradictory concept, but we have an instance.
Sure, it is a fairly fine distinction, but an awful lot of people saw a news story about a Latino "white supremacist" and just uncritically believed it. Despite the sheer inconsistency of such a thing. Yes, crazy people do exist, but it's important to critically examine news particularly when it is ridiculous. And that's really what the original parent post was about: the ability to convince people of something ridiculous simply by saying it. Elon doesn't have that power, but in many cases the media as a collective does. Eg. The media acted as cheerleaders for the war in Iraq, fabricating the WMD story which should have collapsed under even the slightest scrutiny.
If anything, Elon seems to be usually out of step with the legacy media consensus. That's a good thing if it makes people stop and consider what they are believing and why, on a more frequent basis.