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>caps years of complaints from Black workers that Tesla turned a blind eye to the commonplace use of racial slurs on the assembly line and was slow to clean up
by meowface 5y ago
>caps years of complaints from Black workers that Tesla turned a blind eye to the commonplace use of racial slurs on the assembly line and was slow to clean up graffiti with swastikas and other hate symbols scrawled in common areas
Is this a shitty middle school or a company? I would imagine it's not very easy to get a job at Tesla, including for assembly line work. I'd be shocked if it happened once, let alone repeatedly, and let alone with a slow clean-up response.
If it were one employee making the accusation, I'd believe it, and since it's allegedly multiple employees, I especially doubt it's false.
- sergiomattei 5y agoIt all comes from the top. Elon Musk is a wannabe edgelord and that culture cascades down throughout his companies.
- ben_w 5y agoMusk’s tweets include a lot of memes, including drugs memes, yes. However, I have not seen even one thing from Musk personally which is a racial slur I’m familiar with[0], nor anything politically authoritarian — if anything, he seems anarchic. All that said, I’m glad this person got justice, and it’s shameful it took so long. [0] racial slurs vary from place to place, so perhaps I’m just blind to them?
- whack 5y agoI'm no musk expert but he once got into a twitter fight where he called the guy a pedo. Which he later categorized as a "generic insult." To be clear, pedo is not racial, but it is certainly a slur. When you have a CEO publicly calling someone a pedo as a generic insult, it's easy to see how that desensitizes workers towards other slurs being used casully. Not saying that Musk should be personally blamed for whatever racist hotbeds exist in Tesla. But as a CEO, you really need to be a role model, because anything you do will be magnified 10x by others.