Horrific allegations of racism prompt California lawsuit against Tesla

[rogue emissary]

Warning: This story quotes several racist slurs allegedly directed at Black workers at Tesla’s California plant, according to a lawsuit filed against the company.

The N-word and other racist slurs were hurled daily at Black workers at Tesla’s California plant, delivered not just by fellow employees but also by managers and supervisors.

So says California’s civil rights agency in a lawsuit filed against the electric-vehicle maker in Alameda County Superior Court on Thursday on behalf of thousands of Black workers after a decade of complaints and a 32-month investigation.

Tesla segregated Black workers into separate areas that its employees referred to as “porch monkey stations,” “the dark side,” “the slave ship” and “the plantation,” the lawsuit alleges.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-02-11/la-fi-tesla-race-discrimination-lawsuit

Still DU"er say they admire him and he's a genius.

[FreepFryer]

1. Musk is a piece of shit like Henry Ford (Nt)

[nycbos]

2. +1

For many years jews wouldn't buy Fords becuse of the old man.

[2naSalit]

14. +2

[MineralMan]

3. Oopsie...Elon's Not a Deity?

Imagine my surprise...

[WA-03 Democrat]

4. Elon Musk

is not racist. He's just a regular white South African asshole who was born and bred being allergic to black and brown people.

I AM SO SHOCKED!

He is a conman and not an engineer by any stretch of the imagination. Copy cat who make really shitty cars. Look at the panel seams next time you are by a Tesla. Not even with variable gap along. They are crap. Oh and the software-it's 10x worse than any mechanical issue.

[dalton99a]

13. People who worship the POS as a science/engineering genius are ignorant.

His "genius" is in getting taxpayers to make him super rich.

[2naSalit]

15. +1

[Faux pas]

5. I

think he's just another con man asshole.

[Hekate]

6. The LA Times gave that quite a spread, & it's stomach-churning. Recommended read. nt

[dalton99a]

7. Kick

Only Black workers had to scrub floors on their hands and knees, and they were relegated to the Fremont, Calif., factory’s most difficult physical jobs, the suit states.

Graffiti — including “KKK,” “Go back to Africa,” the hangman’s noose, the Confederate Flag and “F-- [N-word]” — were carved into restroom walls, workplace benches and lunch tables and were slow to be erased, the lawsuit says.

Besides the N-word, harassment at Tesla, according to the DFEH lawsuit, included slurs such as “Monkey toes,” “banana boy,” “hood rats” and “mayate,” a Spanish word for dung beetle.

One [harassment suit] was lodged by a female Black employee who said her female white boss struck her with a hot grinding tool and called her “stupid” and the N-word and insulted her intelligence. The suit says the supervisor was fired but later rehired.

Another was filed by a man who said he wrote directly to Musk to complain about racial harassment and was then told to report to human resources, where he was fired.

[regnaD kciN]

8. No wonder Time's Person Of The Year moved everything to Texas...

…where such practices are just part of Our Heritage.

[dalton99a]

9. Should be Racist Asshole of the Year

[orwell]

10. Good thing there is...

...no racism in TexAss.

Governor Abbott told me so...

[ellie]

11. Elon Musk

is such a fucking scumbag. In the article he is quoted as saying,

Anyone who makes an ”unintentional slur” should apologize, he wrote, and the recipient should “be thick-skinned and accept the apology.

This from the man who whines nonstop. He can fuck all the way off. Pardon my language.

[BlueIdaho]

12. That fucking guy...

[2naSalit]

16. FTFF!!

That is all.

[Solly Mack]

17. K&R

Damn.

[maxrandb]

18. The fish rots from the head down. NT

[PortTack]

19. Really just wish he would go back to South Africa