As the head of companies like Tesla, SpaceX, and now Twitter…sorry, X…Elon Musk is one of the most influential and wealthiest men in the world. He’s also a periodic troll who picks fights online; remember when he and Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg were seriously talking to each other about having a cage fight? That would have been the weirdest moment of the 21st century so far if it had actually happened.
Lately, Musk has joined the backlash to the new Star Wars show The Acolyte, which for my money is a dull, middling series that conservative reactionaries have chosen to make their new online punching bag, mainly because it features a lot of women and people of color in prominent roles. And because the show itself is pretty lame, there’s been little pushback, because who’s gonna bother to defend The Acolyte?
Musk has grabbed onto this low-hanging fruit. Responding to one post about how Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy …