Incidentally, I don't exempt myself. I also spent weeks outraged, having read only headlines, angry posts, and backlash. It was two months later, working on something different, that I looked at the transcript and thought: "huh! it doesn't say that at all." It is an instructive example, I think.

I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.