'Nonsense!' Elon Musk Lashes Out in Fiery Interview After He's Accused of Supporting the 'Far Right'

Elon Musk denied that he supports the 'far right' in a new interview with The Economist, countering the interviewer's claims by saying he backs 'normal people' who are mislabeled by the media. 'You support not just the populist right, but the far right — in fact, very fringe parties in some countries,' said editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes in the sit-down interview. 'No, I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely,' Musk declared. 'Here are the principles, and tell me, which of these sound terrible. That we should have secure borders? That we should have safe cities? That we should have sensible spending? Which of those three are far right fringe? And I would just like to just admonish you and the media for the absurd characterization of the far right. It is false and misleading and nonsense! Please keep this part in. Don't cut this part,' Musk said looking to the camera. 'We'll keep all of it in,' Beddoes said, before admonishing Musk for claiming 'civil war is inevitable' in Britain, and violent crime is rampant. 'London is a much safer city than any city in the United States,' Beddoes said. 'You have painted — and because you have so many followers, so many Americans believe it — a kind of view that Europe and the UK are kind of, you know, overrun with terrifying Muslim immigrants, there's rape on every corner, there's a sort of civilizational destruction.' 'I haven't said any of those things,' Musk shot back. 'If you have a large and growing, rapidly growing, group of people whose beliefs are antithetical to Western beliefs, at some point [there will be a reckoning]. They will try to implement their views, and those who oppose it will oppose it. And that's what you call civil war. And obviously, this is the trend.' 'People say that you're a racist,' Beddoes said. 'My partner is, she's half Indian, and I have four children with her,' Musk argued. 'One of them was named after a famous Indian physicist. So, I would say I'm not racist. And also, if you look at the people that are employed at my companies, we have senior executives of all races. I don't think there's any racism there.' 'You anti-Muslim?' Beddoes asked. 'If people are coming to a country with antithetical views, I am against that. I'm against rape and murder. I'm against the imposition of rules and laws that are contrary to what we've come to accept in the West. And I think it's a crying shame that the sort of traditional media like you don't recognize this.'