it is definitely an extremely bad development for the world–regardless of whether Elon has convictions about this or not–that Elon is basically a white genocide/casual antisemite guy now. he’s one of the richest men alive and has a pretty significant amount of social and cultural influence that can’t be snuffed out by just ignoring what he’s saying. his audience is already in the millions, and he functionally has a captive one in owning Twitter since he can do what he wants with the place.