The chief executive of SpaceX and Tesla, who is known for despising woke culture, posted a meme on his personal Twitter account on Monday that read: “Netflix waiting for the war to end to make a movie about a black ukraine guy falls in love with a transgender russian soldier”.Twitter users were outraged at the billionaire’s decision to share the “insensitive” meme with his 77.8 million followers.“Using the Russia-Ukraine war to crack any type of joke is very insensitive & s!lly,” one wrote. “Millions of people are being affected with the ongoing crisis, some have lost their lives while others, their source of livelihood, so show some empathy. Learn to walk in people’s shoes. Grow-up.”Stream more entertainment news live & on demand with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. Offer ends 31 October, 2022 >Another wrote: “So many thousands being massacred in Ukraine and so many thousands laughing at this says everything you need to know about the lack of humanity in the world today.”While, one user simply said: “Didn’t realize you were fully right wing.”It is not the first time Musk has made his feelings clear about “woke culture”.In an interview with conservative satire website The Babylon Bee in December last year, Musk claimed “wokeness” was trying to make comedy illegal.“Trying to shut down Chappelle, come on, man, that’s crazy. Do we want a humourless society that is simply rife with condemnation and hate basically?” he said, referring to comedian Dave Chappelle, who has faced backlash for his anti-trans jokes. Netflix has been urged to remove Chapelle’s special The Closer.“At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful,” Musk went on. “It basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armoured in false virtue.”Some Twitter users defended Musk’s latest meme as OK given the support he had shown Ukraine.“The funniest thing about the tweet, is the fact that people saying it’s tone deaf don’t realize Elon has done more to help Ukrainians than anyone else in this comment section… COMBINED,” one person wrote.Last week, Ukraine received millions of dollars worth of Musk’s Starlink Rapid Deployment Kits to assist in its emergency communications.Ukraine’s vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov took to Twitter to express his gratitude and Musk responded, saying the country would also receive a bundle of other emergency supplies including power adaptors for car cigarette lighters, solar/battery packs and generators.An internal email obtained by CNBC also reportedly revealed Ukrainians employed by Tesla in Europe, Middle East and Africa would be paid for up to three months if they returned to their country to fight.Free Supercharging was also offered for Ukraine’s 5000 Tesla drivers at stations in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.
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