Elon Musk was asked point-blank on camera whether he's a racist by the editor-in-chief of The Economist herself. "People say that you're a racist," Zanny Minton Beddoes said. Musk's response: "My partner is half Indian, and I have four children with her. One of them was named after a famous Indian physicist. If you look at the people employed at my companies, we have senior executives of all races. I don't think there's any racism there." She followed up by pressing him on whether he backs the "far right." Musk pushed back directly: "No, I support the normal people what you call the far right, falsely. Secure borders. Safe cities. Sensible spending. Which of those three are far-right or fringe?" When the conversation turned to immigration and religion, Musk responded: "If people are coming to a country with antithetical views, I am against that. I'm against rape and murder. I'm against the imposition of rules and laws that are contrary to what we've come to accept in the West." His closing line to her, on camera: "I think it's a crying shame that the traditional media, like you, don't recognize this."