“Time to pipe down” — Polanski hits back at Musk’s racist attack

Green party leader Zack Polanski has continued to stand up to billionaire Elon Musk, while Musk continues to incite hate and attack Polanski for resisting.

On 10 June, as Musk again bent and ignored reality to stir up white-supremacist hate toward immigrants, Polanski described Musk’s support for “violence and extremism” as a “threat to our democracy”:

This man is a threat to our democracy. He backs violence and extremism.

Blaming a group of people for the awful actions of an individual leads us to a very dark place.

Musk, Lowe, Farage, Robinson – these men don’t give a shit about this country, they want to rip us apart. https://t.co/zbV6s42xIv

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) June 11, 2026

Musk, of course, didn’t get wound up about murderous white people trying to behead minority victims. That would be far too inconvenient for the white hate narrative. Murderous UK neo-nazi Alina Burns doesn’t exist in the white nationalist discourse, for example — or if she does, she’ll be praised behind closed doors.

Stung, Musk then described Polanski as a “scumbag and traitor”:

Yes, he is a scumbag and traitor

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 11, 2026

Zack Polanski — Time to pipe down

The natural reading of this would be “traitor to the white race”, but just maybe Musk meant a traitor to (white) Britain. You say potato. But Polanski wasn’t backing down. Instead he told Musk to “pipe down” and stop inciting violence and wrecking UK democracy:

Elon Musk can say what he likes about me but I won’t stay silent whilst foreign tech billionaires, money earned off the backs of real workers, try to interfere in our democracy, incite violence in our communities and tear apart our country.

Time for him to pipe down. https://t.co/wUaROSbwxd

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) June 11, 2026

And it seems a lot more people agree with Polanski than with Musk – and weren’t shy about saying so. As well as — at the time of writing — a ‘ratio’ massively in Polanski’s favour in terms of ‘likes’ and shares, those who replied were, well, pithy:

pipe down, Epstein nonce. pic.twitter.com/I8LEwA0R39

— HonkForPeace (@saltydesouffle) June 11, 2026

And many pointed out Musk’s hypocritical silence over the far more prevalent white far-right hate:

pipe down, Epstein nonce. pic.twitter.com/I8LEwA0R39

— HonkForPeace (@saltydesouffle) June 11, 2026

Others pointed to Musk’s real roots and the fact he’s a foreigner to either of the countries he’s trying to wreck:

You – a foreigner in every sense of the word, do not get to decide who is or is not a traitor to my (not your) country. Go poke your nose in somewhere else’s business.
As for scumbag, I know for a fact that only one of you grovelled round Epstein to get on his pedophile island.

— Nanna Deb💙🧡✋ (@Deborahpower5) June 11, 2026

Still others poured pity as well as scorn on Musk and his hollowness. Which would infuriate him more isn’t yet clear:

How sad you are.
What’s missing in your life I wonder.
Money is wasted on you.
You could do a lot of good in the world, but you choose to incite racial hatred.
I feel immensely sorry for you.

— Haze Reid ☮ ❤️ 🖐🚩🕊 (@Hazzreid) June 11, 2026

‘Lick the spoon’

Some were less charitable, wishing Musk a large helping of what he is dishing out:

You’re a traitor to all humanity Mr Musk. You live to foul everything & everyone that is good. No wonder Trump dumped you. There’ll be no-one weeping at your deathbed, that honour is reserved for real humans. Remember this: he who stirs the shit must one day lick the spoon.

— Antoinette Mangion #4Corbyn #RightToStrike (@is_antoinette) June 11, 2026

Polanski’s right, Musk is wrong. And while Polanski’s popularity is running high with the UK public, Musk’s has tanked to record lows:

No one loves Musk. De-Yankifythe UK now. pic.twitter.com/RyWDq5LIIr

— Spiralunbound (@spiralunbound) June 11, 2026

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