Neil deGrasse Tyson in an interview today defended Elon Musk and his supposed fellow victim of cancel culture, Adolf Hitler. In a recent interview with VladTV, Tyson defended Musk by listing some of the positive contributions that Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich made to the world.
Tyson started the defense of Musk, whose acquisition and subsequent mismanagement of the Twitter microblogging social media service has revealed his racist and right wing politics by paraphrasing a Tweet of his own:
“While we are all casting shade on Elon, of course surrounding Twitter and some of the crazy things he might have said, occasionally pause – why not occasionally pause – and reflect that Elon made household cars a topic of conversation and private access to space something that is not only real but tangible to the common person in the near future – the forseeable future.”
Among the “crazy things” Elon has said on Twitter was a comparison of the real-life Jewish billionaire philanthropist George Soros with fictional Jewish Marvel supervillain Magneto.
Tyson blamed outrage for Musk’s words on “cancel culture,” which he defines as “There’s this one thing you did, therefore I didn’t like anything you did.” He starts his defense of Musk by positing:
“Suppose Hitler actually invented a cure for cancer. What do you do? Do you use the cure for cancer?”
This hypothetical question serves as a launching point for Tyson to expand on his interviewer DJ Vlad’s point that the Third Reich’s horrific medical experiments on living Jewish people were mitigated by the invention of the budget-friendly Volkswagon. Tyson’s response to that statement was:
“The Volkswagon, and in fact it’s the air cool variant in the range of Volkswagons was so that he could conduct his military operations in Africa where there is no water.”
You can watch the entire exchange below:
In the interview, DeGrasse Tyson, who studied at Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton Universities, repeated several times about Musk that, “We are not beer-drinking buddies,” before bragging that he has Musk’s e-mail address.
