The devastating but ambiguous Musk effect
by Melanie Phillips:
The owner of X shows what Israel’s defenders could achieve if they came off the back foot.
The flaming shooting star that is Elon Musk has lit up a dark corner of our troubled western society.
He has forced open previously sealed issues by personally taking to his social-media platform X to cut through the denial and obfuscation that has stifled public debate.
He has ruffled many feathers in Germany and the United Kingdom by using that platform to openly influence the course of domestic politics in these countries. Some of this is questionable and even dangerous. But he has also shown how the grip of the deranged narrative about Israel might be broken.
Musk’s intervention over the past few days has not just electrified the British but also gripped America, which has been introduced for the first time to Britain’s hideous child rape and grooming-gangs scandal.
For at least 25 years, gangs of mostly Pakistani-heritage Muslim men have been grooming young white girls by luring them with gifts, alcohol and drugs in order to pimp, rape, imprison, torture, and in some cases, even murder them. In town after town, tens of thousands of girls — many of them young teenagers — have been subjected to debauched and depraved sexual violence, with many serially raped by multiple men in one night.
After Britain’s Labour government rejected calls by one of these towns’ councils for a government inquiry into this abuse there, Musk started hurling volleys of tweets on X in furious protest.
He claimed that the anti-Islam agitator Tommy Robinson, who is serving a prison sentence for contempt of court, was a “political prisoner” who had been jailed for exposing the grooming gangs, and he demanded that Robinson be released from prison.
He even turned on Nigel Farage, the “populist” leader of Reform and a close ally of president-elect Donald Trump, saying Farage wasn’t fit to be his party’s leader because he refused to allow Robinson — a former football hooligan and member of the neo-fascist British National Party — to be a member of Reform.
The effects of this onslaught have been as fascinating as they have been perverse.
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