I generally pay less attention to Elon Musk’s pronouncements than to my cat coughing up a hairball. At least I know the hairball is genuine and not regurgitated in a bid for attention. But Musk’s recent remarks, amplified by his culture-war fanboys, unintentionally provided an opportunity to focus on something important and overlooked.
“Canada is cooked,” Musk commented on a video posted on X, the platform where he likes to spew his racist and sexist nonsense. Was this comment in reference to some genuinely damaging event that had harmed Canadians? No, Musk was referring to NDP MP Leah Gazan’s description of people harmed by anti-Indigenous violence at a press conference in Ottawa. Gazan referred to “the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” while drawing attention to shortfalls in government funding to Indigenous women’s groups.
What a stupid twit.
