[spinchange]

There is another contingent of "many," who feel personally protective of Musk and like he needs to be vigorously defended no matter what. It's usually people who have no personal connection to him or his companies but idealize him as representative of something more than any single person is or can possibly be. Musk has flaws too which isn't a groundbreaking or wild thing to say but it makes a lot of people's heads explode. Why is that?

[veryverysad]

I can't stand bullies. I'll be on the way everytime the illiterate mob tries to cancel a new victim.

[ryanwaggoner]

It’s truly hilariously ironic to see people defending (until recently) the literal richest man in the world and someone well known for having a mercurial temper and treating everyone around him like garbage, as being the victim of “bullying”.

[spinchange]

The Philistines likely saw Goliath as a poor victim of David, too.

[fsociety]

Ha Elon does not need your protection.

[vaidhy]

How do you differentiate between that and a literate mob trying to correct a incorrect idea? Should we encourage flat earthers? Anti-vaxxers? Apartheid supporters? Where do you draw the line and on what basis?