Elon Musk appeared on Bill Maher’s Real Time, and they got into a discussion about the dangers of what Musk has refered to as the “woke mind virus.” Maher asks Musk to explain, and the result has gone viral.
Bill Maher and Elon Musk criticized the “woke mind virus” and its implications on society during the comedian’s “Real Time” show on HBO Friday.“You have talked about this ‘woke mind virus’ in really apocalyptic terms. You should explain why you don’t think it’s hyperbole to say things like it’s ‘pushing civilization towards suicide.’ First of all, what is the woke mind virus? And if we don’t deal with this, nothing else can get done,” Maher pressed the billionaire.Musk, seated opposite him, reiterated his position on the unique dangers of wokeness toward modern society.“I think we need to be very cautious about anything that is anti-meritocratic and anything that results in the suppression of free speech,” Musk said. “So, you know, those are two other aspects of the woke mind virus that I think are very dangerous is that it’s anti-meritocratic. You can’t question things. Even the questioning is bad. So, you know, another way… [it’s almost synonymous] with cancel culture.. . . . The two also touched upon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, which Maher said he understood why the billionaire would want the social media platform, calling it part of “the big civilizational issues and problems” in America.“I really can’t emphasize this enough, we must protect free speech … The thing about censorship — for those who advocate for it — at some point, it will be turned on you,” Musk said.
Musk . . . said, “I think it’s been going on for a while. The amount of indoctrination that’s happening in schools and universities is I think far beyond what parents realize.” He shared an anecdote about a friend’s high school-aged children only knowing that George Washington was the first president of the United States and a slave owner — but nothing else about him.“That is the woke mind virus, exactly,” Maher said, before lightly defending slavery as something practiced by many societies and endorsed in the Bible.
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