The Blaze Reports: Elon Musk blasted the extent to which the "woke mind virus" has infested education in an exclusive interview on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night.

"I think we need to be very cautious about anything that is anti-meritocratic and anything that results in the suppression of free speech," Twitter CEO Musk told host Bill Maher.

"So those are two of the aspects of the ‘woke mind virus’ that I think are very dangerous ... you can’t question things, even the questioning is bad. Almost synonymous would be cancel culture."

Musk went on to discuss the worrisome impact the "woke mind virus" has had on education. Saturday morning, he doubled down, saying the extent of teachers' indoctrination of children had reached a "shocking degree."

In Musk's view, the infestation of the "woke mind virus" has "been a long time brewing." He estimated the infiltration took place over the last two decades.