Summary
JD Vance defended Marko Elez, a 25-year-old Musk aide after racist posts surfaced, including “Normalize Indian hate.”
Elez resigned but was reinstated following Vance’s support, despite Vance’s wife being of Indian descent. Vance dismissed criticism, arguing past social media posts shouldn’t ruin careers.
Musk backed Elez after a public poll. Rep. Ro Khanna challenged Vance, who responded dismissively, sparking backlash.
The incident has intensified scrutiny of Musk’s hiring practices and Vance’s stance on racism.
man yeah! fetishization is a pattern of hate. he does not love his wife for who she is. he does lot engage with issues of discrimination she experiences and try to mitigate them from a place of loving her as a fellow human. quite the opposite, in fact. to him she is a sexual status symbol and nothing more. and either she knows that and rolls with it because feMAGAle voters are lapdogs selling out their sisters for temporary comfort, or she’s deeply embedded in a system of hate that becomes invisible to you when it’s normalized by everyone who’s around you. in other words she either knows and just grifts on him to do her scams like melania does, or she’s so broken by the hegemony she doesn’t know it’s possible for your husband to love you.
but anyone’s who’s surprised doesn’t know who these people are