Elon Musk Warns Parents That ‘Woke Mind Virus’ Has Spread to Public Schools

Elon Musk recently spoke out on about the prevalence of the “woke mind virus” in public schools during an interview with Bill Maher, claiming that many parents were unaware of progressive ideological contamination in the education system.

During an episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher” late this week, Musk discussed the prevalence of woke ideas in schools, accusing educators of “indoctrination” of impressionable young minds and warning listeners to oppose the ideologies which promote equity as a primary tenet of social justice.

“I think we need to be very cautious about anything that is anti-meritocratic and anything that results in the suppression of free speech,” Musk said. “So, you know, those are two other aspects of the woke mind virus that I think are very dangerous is that it’s anti-meritocratic. You can’t question things. Even the questioning is bad.”

“I was trying to figure out where it’s coming from. I think it’s actually been a long time brewing, in that it’s, I think it’s been going on for a while,” Musk said. “The amount of indoctrination that’s happening in schools and universities is I think far beyond what parents realize.”

“And I only sort of came to realize this somewhat late,” Musk continued. “The experience that we had in high school and college is not the experience that that kids today are having and hasn’t been for, I don’t know, 10 years, maybe 20.”

When asked by Maher to what degree parents were a part of the problem, Musk downplayed their role in woke indoctrination, arguing that “parents are just generally not aware of what their kids are being taught, or what they’re not being taught.”

“Let me … give you an example that a friend of mine told me which his daughters go to high school in the Bay Area,” he elaborated. “And, and he was asking them like, ‘well, so who are the, you know, who are the first few presidents of the United States?’ They could name Washington. And he said, ‘So what do you know about him?’ ‘Well, he was a slave owner.’ What else? Nothing. Right, like, okay, maybe you should know more than that. You know?”