Who Is Afraid of Elon Musk?
“EU Commission urged to act over Elon Musk’s ‘interference’ in elections,” reads a recent headline from the British Guardian.
“EU politicians warn against Elon Musk’s incursions into European politics,” says an ABC News report.
“Elon Musk’s interference in national debates angers Europe’s leaders” warns a headline on Euro News.
In the last couple of weeks, Europe’s governing elites have been vociferously bemoaning Elon Musk’s alleged meddling in Europe’s political process. Amid the maelstrom of hysteria and accusations, however, it may be instructive to look at what Musk’s “interference” actually consists of.
The complainers have been mainly pointing to two of Elon’s recent transgressions:
- In the first week of this year, Musk posted some documents from the UK government describing the shocking level and scope of sexual abuse of British girls by Muslim grooming gangs that have taken place over the last two decades.
- On January 9, Musk interviewed Alice Weidel, the co-chair of the German AfD. The AfD is the second most popular political party in Germany and is quickly rising in the polls even as we speak.
These actions have caused European government officials to go apoplectic, crying foul and claiming that Musk’s deeds pose a dire threat to democracy.
They are largely wrong about this: Elon Musk indeed poses a danger but not to democracy. Rather, he poses a danger to the governing elites.
This is because Musk’s popular platform X allows discussion in the public square of burning subjects that people want to talk about, but that the elites have kept under the lid. This they’ve managed by means of the extensive censorship regime they’ve erected throughout western “democracies.”
The assertion that Musk threatens British democracy by bringing attention to the systemic and pervasive sexual exploitation of young British girls by Muslim gangs is absurd on its face.
This is what we learn from Reuters about the situation in the British town of Rotherham:
“A report in 2014, made a conservative estimate that more than 1,400 girls were sexually exploited in the town of Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.”
The fact that there have been over 1,400 girls sexually abused in a single British town gives an idea of the magnitude of the problem. It goes without saying that in situations like this not all victims are identified. And this happened in only one place. There must have been many thousands of young girls exploited in this way across Britain.
The British establishment, however, has largely suppressed public discussion of this matter.
There has been a revealing statistic published recently. From 2011 until 2025 there have been 4,659 mentions of grooming gangs in the UK press. Black Lives Matter, on the other hand, have been referenced nearly sixty thousand times and George Floyd 38,824 times.
What is happening here? Thousands of young British girls were abuse
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