Elon Musk’s post on X (formerly Twitter) – rather a reply on post has sparked an outage online. X user Freedomain – with Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux recently shared a post that said “If Indians set foot in England and become English. Then the English who set foot in India became Indian. Therefore the English did not rule India…”. Tesla CEO Elon Musk reacted to the viral post (22.6 million views) with “🤔” – thinking face emoji, drawing flakes from users on the flawed logic and distorted historical fact.Musk’s reply to the British rule in India post soon went viral on the microblogging platform with nearly 10 million views so far. The post also drew criticism with many Indian users pointing out to the tech billionaire that “colonisation and immigration are not the same thing.”

Elon Musk gets schooled on anti-India post

Replying to Musk’s post, one user said “If you want to defend the indefensible – have the spine to admit that you agree with the racist bigotry behind colonization. The way the British Empire depicted their enslaved colony India in their political cartoons is enough to let us know exactly how Indian the British were.” “What Brit’s did to India is in no way comparable to legal immigration of Indians to UK,” said a second user.“You already tweaked your algorithm to spread hate against Indians,” another lashed out. “You and your dumb logic. True Q.E.D will be when Indians in UK loot Trillions of UK’s wealth and send it to India, take over power in UK, enslave the population and starve millions to death like Churchill did,” said a fourth.“There’s a big difference between someone legally joining Tesla with proper documents and someone invading, overthrowing you and declaring they’ll run the company,” commented another user.“What logic is this?,” asked a user adding “Even if for moment we take the argument at face value that the English who set foot in Indian became Indian, were English in India making the laws for India or was it the British Parliament, elected by English in England which was making the laws for India?”.