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If "Black workers were frequently called the N-word on the assembly line", I guess there should be some audio/video recordings of those posted online.

smitty1e 5y ago
Even then, in the era of Jussie Smollet, one still cannot preclude the possibility that this article is just a shot across Elon Musk's bow.
- emerged 5y ago
  No matter how grey this comment is, it’s still true. This is statistically far far more likely to be bullshit than face value racism.
rasz 5y ago
Didnt it turn out to be "Black workers were frequently called the N-word on the assembly line" _by other black workers_?
- noisy_boy 5y ago
  > she would hear Latino and white workers, and their supervisors, casually refer to Black workers with the N-word. “You would hear n— this and n— that,” she said. ”It was the norm. It was Tesla’s tradition.” > Chatman didn’t hear Asian workers use the N-word, she said, but they “would make chicken jokes,” a stereotype mocking of Black Americans’ diet. So, no.
  - rasz 5y ago
    I seem to remember this from one of the previous cases, all I could find now is: "An ex-Tesla employee who worked at the Fremont factory for about two years said in a sworn declaration in the Vaughn case that he had heard the “N-word” used at least 100 times by co-workers and that Black and White employees alike referred to the factory as “the plantation” or “slaveship.”"
    - temp8964 5y ago
      So, is there a recording?
    - noisy_boy 5y ago
      > "An ex-Tesla employee who worked at the Fremont factory for about two years said in a sworn declaration in the Vaughn case that he had heard the “N-word” used at least 100 times by co-workers and that Black and White employees alike referred to the factory as “the plantation” or “slaveship.”" There are two parts to the sentence. first-part: "the “N-word” used at least 100 times by co-workers" second-part: "and that Black and White employees alike referred to the factory as “the plantation” or “slaveship.”" People referred to in the first part need not have an overlap with those referred to in the second part. Yes, it doesn't preclude an overlap but it doesn't also exclude the possibility of the two groups being mutually exclusive.

smitty1e 5y ago

Even then, in the era of Jussie Smollet, one still cannot preclude the possibility that this article is just a shot across Elon Musk's bow.

emerged 5y ago
No matter how grey this comment is, it’s still true. This is statistically far far more likely to be bullshit than face value racism.

rasz 5y ago

Didnt it turn out to be "Black workers were frequently called the N-word on the assembly line" _by other black workers_?

noisy_boy 5y ago
> she would hear Latino and white workers, and their supervisors, casually refer to Black workers with the N-word. “You would hear n— this and n— that,” she said. ”It was the norm. It was Tesla’s tradition.” > Chatman didn’t hear Asian workers use the N-word, she said, but they “would make chicken jokes,” a stereotype mocking of Black Americans’ diet. So, no.
- rasz 5y ago
  I seem to remember this from one of the previous cases, all I could find now is: "An ex-Tesla employee who worked at the Fremont factory for about two years said in a sworn declaration in the Vaughn case that he had heard the “N-word” used at least 100 times by co-workers and that Black and White employees alike referred to the factory as “the plantation” or “slaveship.”"
  - temp8964 5y ago
    So, is there a recording?
  - noisy_boy 5y ago
    > "An ex-Tesla employee who worked at the Fremont factory for about two years said in a sworn declaration in the Vaughn case that he had heard the “N-word” used at least 100 times by co-workers and that Black and White employees alike referred to the factory as “the plantation” or “slaveship.”" There are two parts to the sentence. first-part: "the “N-word” used at least 100 times by co-workers" second-part: "and that Black and White employees alike referred to the factory as “the plantation” or “slaveship.”" People referred to in the first part need not have an overlap with those referred to in the second part. Yes, it doesn't preclude an overlap but it doesn't also exclude the possibility of the two groups being mutually exclusive.