'Free Speech Absolutist' Elon Musk Says Teachers Should Be 'Imprisoned' for Accurate Lessons on US History

[highplainsdem]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/musk-imprison-teachers

‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Says Teachers Should Be ‘Imprisoned’ for Accurate Lessons on US History
The world’s richest man believes it is “treason” to teach students the plain fact that the United States was built on stolen Native American land.
Stephen Prager
Jan 15, 2026

Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk believes schoolteachers should be “imprisoned” for educating students on topics that portray America negatively—including the nation’s history of racism and the displacement of Native Americans.

The world’s richest man, who was a prolific donor to President Donald Trump and a member of his administration, expressed this desire in a post on his social media app X on Thursday in response to a survey of high school students from 2022 conducted by the right-wing Manhattan Institute, about whether they had been taught concepts labeled as part of “critical social justice.”

The post Musk replied to specifically emphasized that, according to the poll, 45% of students said they had been taught that “America was built on stolen land,” while another 22% said they’d heard it from an adult at school.

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“Teaching people to hate America fundamentally destroys patriotism and the desire to defend our country,” he wrote. “Such teachings should be viewed as treason and those who do it imprisoned.”

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EDITING to add a reminder that Musk's Grok AI will be teaching schoolchildren in El Salvador:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143580868

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Free speech for me, none for thee. A true "conservative". Or maybe it's the ketamine talking.

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[Coventina]

2. Fuck off, you racist fuckwad!

[hvn_nbr_2]

3. Free speech absolutist for speech that agrees with him.

Delusional lying scumbag.

[kwolf68]

4. WOW

Why does he have ANY say? That's right he's a fucking oligarch and they get whatever they want.

So pray tell HOW DID we get all this land? That's right, the Native Americans said, "here take it...we'll go somewhere else".

Next up on the Eloon Musk education network:

--Blacks in Africa sold slaves and they actually had it really good in America as slaves.

[purr-rat beauty]

5. Musk is Mush

That fucker is a k-hole addled, kinder kevlar wearing, hairpiece hunping , pedo pal, robot ass sucking prick

How's that for free soeech bitch?

[Solly Mack]

6. Fuck him

[Jack Valentino]

7. DEPORT the son of a bitch! HE'S NOT a 'real American' !

Getting pretty sick of a white South African telling us how to run OUR country!

[paleotn]

8. Our country? It ain't yours you racist, Afrikaner ass wipe!

[angrychair]

9. Mandatory patriotism

Is normally just called by the more commonly known term "fascism".

I don't think I'll be taking lessons on American history and what it means to be a patriot from a foreign born nepo-baby.