World’s richest man and CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, has taken up podcaster Ian Miles Cheong’s complaint of Microsoft to Indian-origin CEO Satya Nadella.
Elon Musk was reacting to a series of posts shared on X, formerly Twitter, by Cheong blamed Microsoft’s gaming division for discriminating against Whites in hiring.
Microsoft’s gaming division is excluding whites from being hired to work on their video games. All of their new hires are unqualified queer and black people because the company’s executives have an explicit mandate against “crusty old white dudes,” said the podcaster.
To this Musk responded by tagging Microsoft CEO Nadella, “Um, @satyanadella, this is illegal …”
In another post, Cheong shared a Blue Sky post of a popular art director claiming that he boasted of being sexist and racist with Whites. “Avowed art director at Obsidian and Microsoft brags about being racist and sexist against white guys. It’s in the company’s unspoken hiring policy, which he’s partly in charge of,” he wrote. Social media platform Blue Sky is X’s rival. Several US celebrities opposed to Elon Musk have left Twitter and joined Blue Sky, after accusing the platform of being toxic and racist.
The post Cheong shared with Matthew Hansen, Art Director at Obsidian Entertainment, who had made fun of Musk’s old post where he wrote, “It should not be acceptable for any company in the gaming industry to be racist and sexist against “white guys”. Musk’s response to Hansen’s post had a warning. “He is confessing to illegal behavior. Won’t end well for him,” he wrote,
What happened?
Back in March 2024, Xbox global product marketing manager Kelly Lombardi reportedly asked for non white males to raise their hands if they buy video games. Lombardi posted to X on March 27, “Raise your hand if you’re not a white man and you buy video games.” She added, “(No hate to white dudes, it’s just another day in the gaming industry that minorities have to fight to prove they exist).”
However, Kelly had deleted the post, but screenshots the posts were already taken. A screenshot of the post was shared by YouTuber The Quartering, who wrote, “Meet the global head of Marketing for XBOX.” It was then shared by Ashley St Clair who wrote, “This is a massive problem + it’s widespread throughout the entire gaming industry.”
Musk reacted to Ashley St. Clair’s post writing, “It should not be acceptable for any company in the gaming industry to be racist & sexist against ‘white guys.’”
