ADL condemns Musk's Nazi "jokes" after salute controversy

Re:ADL condemns Musk's Nazi "jokes" after salute controversy by rexpop on Sunday January 26, 2025 @09:07PM (#42836600)

Was Musk named "the Elon" after Nazi Werner von Braun's fictional Martian colonial leader?

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Re:ADL condemns Musk's Nazi "jokes" after salute controversy by tim333 on Monday January 27, 2025 @10:21AM (#42842018)

Yup, he was.

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Re:ADL condemns Musk's Nazi "jokes" after salute controversy by Zigurd on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @09:37AM (#42865358)

But the ms went unpublished until 2006, according to wikipedia. Supposedly the book was excerpted in a Sunday supplement magazine, but only in US newspapers. Mysterious!

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Re:ADL condemns Musk's Nazi "jokes" after salute controversy by rexpop on Friday January 31, 2025 @08:19PM (#42894630)

Unpublished in English, perhaps.

There's a clip of Elon's dad saying that his caretaker had read the book to him, translating along the way, and so he'd known the name. It also coincides with an in-law's name, so he took that coincidence as a sign. But Errol really did say that the name came from the book.

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