Elon Musk promotes xenophobic film ‘Citizen Vigilante’

Elon Musk is among the conservatives boosting “Citizen Vigilante,” a film that tells the story of a white killer who takes the law into his own hands to target migrants, who are portrayed as criminals, and members of law enforcement who get in his way.

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The film, which features disgraced former Hollywood star Armie Hammer and was produced by German filmmaker Uwe Boll, marks the latest in a disturbing trend: the MAGA movement embracing violent vigilantes, both in the real world and in fantasyland. I’ve written about previous examples, and I’ve made a video of myself discussing the topic for MS NOW.

One of the most damning critiques of the film comes from someone who previously co-wrote a book defending Boll. In fact, the former Boll defender — writer Nathan Rabin — rebuked the film in his review, calling it an “odious fascist revenge fantasy” and the “most racist film since D.W. Griffith’s controversial 1915 melodrama The Birth of a Nation

,” the notorious film that lionized lynchings of Black people by the Ku Klux Klan.

That comparison seems apt. “The Birth of a Nation” was screened at the White House by Woodrow Wilson’s racist regime. Musk has been boosting “Citizen Vigilante” incessantly via X — a social media platform he has routinely used to promote racist propaganda to the masses — and even posted the film for free.

Ja’han Jones

Ja’han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog.