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Tesla Is a 'Hotbed For Racist Behavior,' Worker Claims In Lawsuit (bloomberg.com)

An African-American employee has filed a lawsuit against Tesla, claiming their production floor is a "hotbed for racist behavior" and that black workers at the electric carmaker suffer severe and pervasive harassment. "The employee says he's one of more than 100 African-American Tesla workers affected and is seeking permission from a judge to sue on behalf of the group," reports Bloomberg. "He's seeking unspecified general and punitive monetary damages as well as an order for Tesla to implement policies to prevent and correct harassment." From the report: "Although Tesla stands out as a groundbreaking company at the forefront of the electric car revolution, its standard operating procedure at the Tesla factory is pre-Civil Rights era race discrimination," the employee said in the complaint, filed Monday in California's Alameda County Superior Court. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Marcus Vaughn, who worked in the Fremont factory from April 23 to Oct. 31. Vaughn alleged that employees and supervisors regularly used the "N word" around him and other black colleagues. Vaughn said he complained in writing to human resources and Musk and was terminated in late October for "not having a positive attitude."

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  1. Re:Uh huh by Rockoon · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Telsa is the biggest prize the UAW has seen in awhile, and so the UAW is using every trick possible. War on all fronts.

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  2. Re:To be fair.... by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wouldn't be surprised at all. Seriously, some of the most racist people I know are well intentioned liberal retards who think they are helping black people. Because obviously, black people don't know about cell phones or even where the DMV is.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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  3. Re:Racism sucks... fight back by Dread_ed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Its not like the National Automobile Dealers Association hasn't tried to get laws changed to prevent Tesla from selling their cars. I wouldn't put it past them to arrange some shit like this.

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  4. Re:Racism sucks... fight back by Charcharodon · · Score: 3, Interesting
    What also is great when it turns out to be a frivolous lawsuit he has to pay Tesla's legal bills. Isn't America wonderful?

    Some of the items he is complaining about:

    Having to show up to work on time.
    Having to be productive at work.
    Not being able to blame his poor work performance on "racist crackers"
    Being openly hostile towards his co-workers and then not getting invited out for beer after going on daily rants about how racists everyone is around here
    The fact that they actually expect him to come to work during Black History Month instead of attending "whitey is a racists workshops"

    Oh wait I'm confusing this guy with guys that I had to serve with while I was in the Air Force.

    Hey maybe he has a point or more likely he was told that his performance sucked and if he didn't shape up he would be let go during next year's round of low performer culling.

  5. Re:Oblig. Troll.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Follow up...

    White Guy from Africa: I am African-American
    Black Guy from Ohio: You're not African-American! Your not black!

    Now who's the racist?

  6. Re:Racism sucks... fight back by Hal_Porter · · Score: 2, Interesting

    SJW-ism is Church Of No Salvation. A doctrinal revision has converted white guilt into a form of original sin. Ancestral guilt which no amount of penitence can expiate.

    And has been pointed out, why follow a religion which offers no redemption?

    https://web.archive.org/web/20...

    In the latter half of the 20th century, our civic religion was egalitarianism. If you got accused of the sin of racism, you could atone. And as long as he hired a few token women, paid off the Rainbow/PUSH coalition, engaged in ritual recitation of of "I Have a Dream," or voted Democrat, a heterosexual white male could atone for the original sin of his birth.

    The problem is that in the last ten years, the Cathedral has undergone a doctrinal reformation. The old creed, "Race is only skin deep," has been replaced with a new one, "To be white is to be racist." The means of salvation have been taken away, and it is now taught that there is literally no way for a straight, white male to find salvation, to get right with the god of the age, to be restored to respectability.

    Why follow a religion that offers no redemption? Why listen to its priests or care about its rites? The cult of equality is losing its grip on white males, because more and more of us are realizing it offers nothing to us whatsoever. Its condemnations mean nothing now. A church with no salvation is a church with no adherents.

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