‘Utterly pathetic’: Douglas Murray slams BBC interview with Elon Musk

part of that has been all this talk we keep hearing about reparations for slavery we know about the madness in California but now we've got King Charles who's signaling his support for further research into the British monarchies historical links with the Trans transatlantic slave trade and as not ruled out Douglas the possibility of paying reparations uh do you think the king of England will also consider reparations for I don't know the families of the Brits who were sold into slavery does he even know that that happened yeah I mean it's like sort of I I I can save him um the time and um a certain amount of money uh by by telling him uh what what the what the historical situation is I'm sure he's aware of it I'd like to think that this is a sort of outmaneuvering by the king and that he's well aware that actually the history of the British Monarchy is a very Noble history by the end about the slavery the the king king uh George the third signed the anti-slavery Act and the first decade of the 1800s um you know consecutive British monarchs after the British abolished slavery not just in Britain but across the Empire and then policed the abolition of the trade across the high seas uh consecutive British monarch spoke out incredibly forcefully as well as in acting actual laws against slavery so it's it's a rather strange thing for King Charles to to do I'm hoping as I say that it's a sort of um some kind kind of bluff of a Kind so that the people who say aha we're going to finally get the secret history because of course after all Rita the history of the British Monarchy is incredibly secretive I mean nobody has ever commented upon it and there are no books on it and there's no way there's no way you could find out any of this stuff from Simply a wall going to a library or something um I'm hoping that this is all all to sort of pacify the know-nothings and then educate them to use one of their favorite terms in the fact that actually the British Monarchy and the slave trade is of is something to be proud of uh the British Monarchy led the way in the abolition of slavery along ahead of much of the rest of the world Africa continued slaving for decades still does in parts today China has effectively a slave uh Market these days in workers uh so I don't know uh what the king is thinking but I hope that it's it's it's a great Bluff to to call out all those ignoramuses who think they know everything and think about if they turn over any Rock in the west they just find evil and in fact in actual fact on this occasion as on so many others you'll find some bad things but you also find an awful lot of good and how shocking and upsetting that'll be for a certain type of person well it won't be Douglas because they'll just ignore that and focus on the couple of bits of uh bad things that they didn't know before that they'll find out through this investigation now I mentioned the fact that there were Brits white British people were Europeans who were also victims of the slave trade you've spoken about this I know you've written about the uh the Arab slave trade as well but this is the sort of stuff that isn't known widely and isn't talked about I mean you four we know could be entitled to reparations perhaps one of your ancestors were one of these unfortunate Brits who fell into uh the slave market yes Barbara Pirates and the North African slavers had ships we used to go out and snatch people from coastal towns on the south coast of England around the coasts of Britain actually uh and across Southern Mediterranean Europe around a million or so people were thought to have been abducted in that way and sold into slavery in Africa and that's ignoring of course the millions upon Millions the tens of millions of of Africans who were sold into slavery by their fellow Africans so if if people are going to talk about reparations as I've said for a long time uh it better be a fulsome reckoning and people might be surprised about who has to pay money to who well yes that will be fascinating now we know the world's richest man Elon Musk owns Twitter nowadays but this week he also well and truly owned the BBC after this train wreck of an interview with the BBC's James Clayton great can you name one example I I honestly don't you I I honestly I can't name a single example I'll tell you why because I don't actually use that for you feed anymore because I just don't particularly like it a lot of people a lot of people are quite similar I I only only you said you've seen more hitful content but you can't name a single example not even one I'm not sure I've used that fee for the last because I've been I've been using I've been using Twitter since you've taken over for the last six months okay so then you must have at some point seen that you've poured you hateful content I'm asking for one example right you can't give a simple one and and I'm saying I say so that you don't know what you're talking about really yes yes BC learned anything from that humiliation or are they just going to double down on their hate speech disinformation it was an extraordinary interview wasn't it Rita I mean an absolutely extraordinary interview the BBC has some fine journalists in it still it certainly has historically had some of the best interviewers in the world uh I don't think that a Jeremy Paxman or Andrew Neal would have gone in and ever have gone into an interview like this so completely unprepared as this man uh Clayton did a he seemed to have no facts at his fingertips and if you're going to inter if you're going to interview the world's richest man one of the most interesting people on the planet who's doing some of the most fascinating and groundbreaking work of anyone on planet Earth you ought to go in with more than oh I've heard about 18 Haiti Haiti words I mean there's something sort of totally pathetic a nursery kindergarten about this isn't there this sort of oh I have a narrative about 80 Haiti words and I'm going to stick to it and oh I don't have any examples but then uh who cares this journalist in question actually did a thread on Twitter about all the stories that have been reported by all the New York Times and the usual lists of media on the back of the interview and he completely buried the lead the lead was that he himself knew nothing and was exposed by Elon Musk during the interview for knowing nothing you know this guy didn't even ask Elon Musk about the Twitter Files about what had been Unearthed since Elon Musk bought Twitter or why Twitter was so successful after Elon Musk fired so many of the staff in fact more successful this is just an example of the way in which sections of the mainstream media adopt a narrative stick with it even in the face of the facts and they they turn out to have no facts themselves and then they sort of resented when somebody else has facts and calls them out on it I thought it was an utterly pathetic interview I was embarrassed for him as a journalist and I was embarrassed as a British person to see somebody of this as a kindergarten level trying to play in the big boys field it was just embarrassing it was embarrassing and the arrogance to go into that interview is so unprepared you are dealing with a man whatever you think of him who's the world's richest man is wildly successful and it seemed to have no respect for that I think he thought I'm the smartest man in the room and I'm going to show up Elon Musk and that is not what happened Douglas Murray you're always the smartest man in the room thank you so much for joining me today it's a great pleasure as always

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Published: Fri Apr 14 2023