> Clearly you have not experienced Teams or Slack

I have, but what Musk did here would be considered incredibly out of line in my workplace. The meme database doesn't have a category for memes targeting my subordinates (and yes to the other poster I know that Elon Musk is not technically her boss yet, but for all intents and purposes the pecking order has been established already). But beyond that, exactly 0 sentences of our disagreements happen over public channels in front of millions of followers.

> using a image which we all know is worth 1000 words far more than you can put in a text response

That's part of the problem. One thing I've noticed about Elon Musk (and similar people who aim to craft a cult of personality) is that his followers project whatever hero they need onto him. As public as Musk is, he has a wide variety of followers some of whom are in fact quite misogynistic, and very much enjoy to read misogyny as one of those 1000 unspoken words conveyed by Musk posting that image. They then act on those misogynistic thoughts by attacking the target of Musk's meme. The same kind of dynamic existed for Trump.

Is that Musk's direct fault? No, he doesn't literally cause people to post misogynistic things. But Musk's cult of personality does in fact have a power to move people to act, and depending on how Musk wields that power he can in fact predictably move people toward certain actions. Tweeting about spaceship launches gets his followers excited about spaceship launches. There's no explosion of misogyny against particular women after Musk tweets about a success at Tesla or SpaceX.

But Tweeting attacks against specific people gets his followers to attack specific people. Some of those attacks are legitimate argument grounded in logic. But a great many more of those attacks were the basest human thoughts imaginable. People also attacked her race, so that's why I'm not saying that the tweet itself was misogynistic, but it elicited misogyny. It wasn't racist, but it elicited racism. And that's the power Musk has -- the power to move crowds to do his bidding. Which in fact makes what he did all the more reprehensible, because he did it as he decries this very power being wielded by "woke mobs". He did the exact same thing.

So my problem with Musk's tweet is that he can't just tweet like the rest of us. He has a power, and as a fan of comics he should know that comes with great responsibility. Even the most misogynistic incels in the world posting the most hateful screeds imaginable can't move thousands of other likeminded people to similarly do so in a targeted fashion. Because they have no power. But Elon Musk with 0 malice in his heart can rain down hate and harassment on anyone through his followers if he's careless.

> The meme was in no way targeted harassment.

But it was targeted against an individual, and the predictable result was in fact harassment so....

Let me put it this way: if Musk really didn't mean for this person to be harassed, he could have posted a follow-up tweet expressing his concern that the harassment was happening and to defend the person he specifically targeted. That didn't happen so I think we know where he stands.