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On social media Tuesday, Musk shared a series of racist images — apparently generated by artificial intelligence — that depicted Warren and leaned heavily on Native American stereotypes., Warren is depicted wearing a beaded headdress adorned with bird feathers. The image also imagined the senior Massachusetts senator wearing a buckskin shirt with leather fringe.
Musk included no explanation alongside the images, instead posting a series of crying laughing emoji with the caption, “Guess who this is?”The images appear to be a reference to Trump’s racist nickname for Warren, “Pocahontas,” which is itself derived from Warren’sLauren van Schilfgaarde, a law scholar and the assistant director of the Native Nations Law & Policy Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, told HuffPost that the images are problematic on a variety of levels.
“That’s deeply problematic,” she said. “Instead of recognising Native peoples as distinct nations, they’re represented as one generic entity.” But she found it interesting that Musk would fall back on what she called “quintessential racism” to respond to concerns about conflicts of interest and his continued presence in Trump’s life.“It shows he’s scared,” she ventured. “Responding to it in this fashion seems to suggest he needs to distract from the substance of her critique.”
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