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African-American usually refers to descendants of America's black slave trade. They are not Africans who moved to America. We don't call dutch born American emigrants Dutch-American. We call them Dutch. We don't call Chinese born American emigrants Chinese-American. We call them Chinese. Their nationality or continental heritage is usually how they are referred to. Calling Musk an African-American is by a long way, more racist than calling him unamerican.
The only thing you're fighting for here is being correctly bigoted.
It's basically irrelevant that the owner of a company like X is an American from South Africa. If you took this same criticism and applied it anywhere else it would be immediately refuted and invalidated as simple bigotry.
There is an obvious difference between TikTok and X and if you're trying to compare them like this and just use "south african owned" to connect it to "chinese" you're being disingenuous, even stupid, and really I can only assume you're being this dumb intentionally.
You must really love the taste of Elon's dick in your mouth...