The Open Borders Crowd Attacks Elon Musk Because He is an Immigrant

Did you know that Elon Musk wasn’t born in the United States?

Gasp! He may be a naturalized citizen, but as a foreigner, he is probably an agent of South Africa or Russia. 

The open borders crowd, many of whom support non-citizens voting in American elections, have suddenly become strong border advocates when it comes to Elon Musk. 

Shame on the NY Times for publishing this opinion piece trying to smear @elonmusk.

Musk is “a white South African, part of a demographic that for centuries sat atop a racial hierarchy maintained by violent colonial rule. That history matters.”

Musk has “not so much moved beyond… pic.twitter.com/ZFu5ZvKlBd

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) March 3, 2025

Musk is “a white South African, part of a demographic that for centuries sat atop a racial hierarchy maintained by violent colonial rule. That history matters.”Musk has “not so much moved beyond the logic of apartheid as absorbed it.”On and on it goes…..

When people cross the border illegally, like Tren de Aragua, they are future doctors and scientists who should be given free phones, free room and board, and be flown around the country at taxpayer expense without having to go through security. They are refugees from oppressive lands and we need to open our arms and spend billions in federal, state, and local money and give them a free pass on crimes because otherwise they might get deported by ICE. 

But Elon Musk, who launches the majority of our satellites, including for the military, built one of the most successful car companies in the world, liberated speech online, and is volunteering his time to make the government more efficient and less corrupt, is a scary foreigner. 

Wow. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) just attacked Elon for being an immigrant and suggests he won’t be loyal to the U.S.

These are the people who supported opening our border to millions of illegals. pic.twitter.com/NMvHhc17oF

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 26, 2025

I am in awe of the mental flexibility of liberals. If I had to zig, zag, flip the transmission to reverse at 100 mph, I would get whiplash. But, since words and concepts have no actual meaning when you are committed to critical theory, little things like intellectual consistency are annoyances as bothersome as a speck of dust across the room. 

“Elon Musk is like a foreign invader who’s just invaded our government and he is a virus that is slowly trying to destroy, from the inside out, every part of our government.” pic.twitter.com/vBkf328SvX

— Destiny | Steven Bonnell II (@TheOmniLiberal) February 4, 2025

That the new liberal talking point is “Elon Musk is a foreigner and therefore dangerous” shouldn’t surprise us. I admit that I didn’t predict this line of attack before it popped up, I had to chuckle and do the Reaganesque “There you go again.” 

Countless leftists, many of them in government or funded by the government, spew hatred to the United States and repeat ad nauseum that the country needs to be “decolonized,” and that America is fundamentally evil. The Squad, for instance, are heroes to the left, and USAID money was funneled to BLM and other anti-American causes. 

But Elon is a foreign agent because, well, you can’t trust those foreigners unless they crossed the border illegally. 

The South Africa apartheid regime was defeated. Maybe one South African can be too. https://t.co/HmaayyFrGO

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 1, 2025

While it’s fun to criticize the hypocrisy of the left, there is a much more serious issue worth remembering. Hypocrisy is a sin we all commit to some extent. La Rochefoucauld once said that hypocrisy of the normal type is “the compliment vice pays virtue,” meaning that even when we are doing something less than virtuous, we understand that we are doing so. They know what virtue is, but give into their appetites as we all do sometimes. 

Anti Elon protester with a “Deport the Nazi Data Thief” sign at NYC’s Tesla showroom performs his best sieg heil impression and tells me Musk is a fascist who should be “arrested, tried, convicted and deported” for violating laws having to do with privacy pic.twitter.com/9eo5CD2CMZ

— Elad Eliahu (@elaadeliahu) March 2, 2025

Critical theory asserts that words are not meant to convey meaning so much as to provide power to the speaker. You say whatever you need to in order to get that power over your opponent. That is the essential claim of CT, which is why words get redefined all the time by critical theorists. Making contradictory claims is not being inconsistent in their minds because the whole point of speaking is not to convey ideas, but to create the desired reaction in the listener. 

This is why being born elsewhere is a virtue one moment and deeply wrong the next. Neither claim is meant to be a statement of fact, but intended to evoke a pre-rational reaction. 

Hence open borders are good, except when they are not.