It took two hours of interviewing Jordan Peterson, a radical Canadian psychologist wearing a jacket decorated with Christian icons, for Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, to give the key to his ideological shift: the gender transition of his minor child during the Covid-19 period. “My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke virus”declared Elon Musk at the end of July, before recalling the context of his judgment. “I was tricked into signing documents for one of my oldest sons. I was told he might commit suicide if…”
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And the businessman, who also owns the social network X, added: ” It’s diabolical. You take these children who are obviously often well below the age of consent. Almost all children go through an identity crisis. It’s part of puberty. It’s entirely possible for adults to manipulate children who are going through an identity crisis and make them believe that they are the wrong gender.” And, finally, this resolution: “I vowed to destroy the woke virus after this.”
The person concerned, who has been called Vivian Wilson since she came of age in 2022, changed her first name to her mother’s name, has retaliated on Threadthe Meta group thread. “He doesn’t know what I looked like as a child because he just wasn’t there.she said of this father whom she has not seen for four years. And, during the short time he was there, I was constantly harassed because of my femininity and my homosexuality.”
Elon Musk’s confession helps us understand his radicalization regarding gender issues and his ideological evolution. Now 53 years old, this libertarian – in other words, a follower of almost absolute freedom – has drifted to the far right and confirmed his support for Donald Trump in the wake of the assassination attempt on the former president on July 13 in Pennsylvania. He even conducted an interview with the populist candidate on X on Monday, August 12, which was seriously disrupted by technical problems. This is how everything gets mixed up with him: professional life and political life, private life and sexual life, whether he exposes it on X or the press mentions it.
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If you look closely, his convictions go back up to his childhood in “white” South Africa under apartheid. His mental universe was then nourished by computers, science fiction and superheroes. The child, shy and solitary, who would later reveal that he was autistic, suffering from Asperger’s syndrome, played Dungeons and Dragons and codes computers on his Commodore computer. “South Africa was a very macho society at the time: he was at a boys’ school and didn’t play rugby.”his uncle Scott Haldeman told us in 2021.
