Tesla ordered to pay over $130 million in racism case...

Kobbs Hessler wrote:

The CEO is African-American. Wtf??

African Immigrant, correct?

yeppp wrote:

so if he receives "only" 6.9 million and worked there 2 years that's over 9000 per day including weekends not a bad job at all

The 6.9M is the emotional distress, another $130M in punitive damages.

I assume this amount will be lowered on appeal.

My understanding is correct for two reasons. 1, I was raised in such a home (and thankfully escaped), and 2, I happen to know more about this topic than you do. Did your middle school text book teach you that slaves were better off in America than in Africa? Mine did. Did your *public* high school history class have a curriculum based on the notion that Bronze Age religious tracts were fact? Mine did. I don’t think most centrist liberal Americans have a sufficient understanding of the venality and intolerance that exists in Republican households. And for the record, I did not accuse you of being a Republican, merely a disingenuous liberal.

Ernest wrote:

Why 137 million dollars? Why not 1.37 billion? Or 13.7 billion?

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Life imitates art.

Your household , your school, and your textbook don’t represent Republicans as a whole across the country. You’re taking a few negative life experiences and making judgements about an entire people group numbering 70-100 million.

That’s literally how racism, sexism, or any other sort of ‘ism’ and/or discrimination starts.

I’m not trying to say you’re a bad person; I just hope you recognize why your current views of ‘Republicans’ aren’t healthy or beneficial… and there’s the possibility this negative view of people could potentially lead you to treat Republicans with less love and respect than what you and I would say all humans deserve.

khcglhc wrote:

The US is quickly becoming a place where you should not open a business if you can avoid it. Who would want to take such risk?

The world is an oyster.

Ireland is a friendly place for business

Odd, then, that I never lose a minute of sleep worrying about this happening at my business.

Not odd that here on Letsrun, posters are criticizing the victim of racial hatred.

The delusion of Republican white supremacy, just as the messianic insanity of Taliban rule, are dangerous. Period. I don’t care about your irrelevant notions of tolerance, which is little less than appeasement to wicked and dangerous ideologies. Humanity is in far too bad a predicament to treat such ideologies with kid gloves.

brishen wrote:

khcglhc wrote:

The US is quickly becoming a place where you should not open a business if you can avoid it. Who would want to take such risk?

The world is an oyster.

Ireland is a friendly place for business

Odd, then, that I never lose a minute of sleep worrying about this happening at my business.

Not odd that here on Letsrun, posters are criticizing the victim of racial hatred.

Right lol. It's almost as if they've never had to experience it.

The judge just sealed the plaintiff's death sentence. With that kind of money he'll be a real target for abuse now from his own kind.

khcglhc wrote:

The US is quickly becoming a place where you should not open a business if you can avoid it. Who would want to take such risk?

The world is an oyster.

Ireland is a friendly place for business

You have no idea what you're talking about...

Half of our business is in Ireland. Compared to the US, it's much more of an uphill battle.

Shame most of the LR posters seem to support racism, judging by the posts. I guess the US still has a long way to go unfortunately.

I have no intention of tolerating white supremacy, nor do I appease dangerous ideologies-which is why I’m engaged in this conservation. Your belief that ‘the average American Republican is a white supremacist on par with the Taliban’ is a dangerous ideology.

So if you want me to pull off the kid gloves: fine (although I really don’t want too).

You’re living in ignorance. You’ve created this delusional world where you believe a Republican voter is a racist, hateful human that must be stopped- at almost all costs. You’ve been deluded by a combination of the media, your personal experiences and some odd mixture of self-righteousness and blind hate. Now you’re unwilling to change your beliefs or consider your perspective may be flawed. That’s dangerous. White supremacy, racism, disregard for those in need, etc, are all terrible things. And they shouldn’t be tolerated. And sometimes society does tolerate it far too much. But misguided assumptions that tens to hundreds of millions of people are evil- based solely off party affiliation- is also terrible. Quite frankly, going by your own standards, we shouldn’t put up with people like you anymore.

Every person with a dangerous ideology is convinced they are right. So unfortunately, I’m liking wasting my time. You’re going to continue to believe you are right, just like a white supremacist or Taliban leader would. And just like them, you’re going to delude yourself into thinking that I’m actually the deluded, ignorant one. Me hating white supremacy, racism, sexism, discrimination, disregard for human life, etc. and actively advocating against those things isn’t enough. In your little world, I’m only righteous and justified if I blindly hate strangers based off party-affiliation- because apparently that’s the only way to fix humanity, blind hate.

This draws all you bitter, nasty racists in like moths to a flame. Go ahead and be anonymous with your gotcha comments. But watch your a** in real life, being a flat out racist will come back to haunt you.. It will cost you relationships, jobs, friends, connections IRL.

Legacy or not wrote:

This draws all you bitter, nasty racists in like moths to a flame. Go ahead and be anonymous with your gotcha comments. But watch your a** in real life, being a flat out racist will come back to haunt you.. It will cost you relationships, jobs, friends, connections IRL.

The liberals are the REAL nasty bitter ones...We ALL saw them looting, burning, tearing down our cities last summer...

The lawyer will get 90%.

The balance will be spent in no time at all and he will be broke and on the street.

Maybe Tesla will hire him back.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Dude knew he was soon out the door, and decided to cash out with fake allegations.

Fall Apart wrote:

The lawyer will get 90%.

The balance will be spent in no time at all and he will be broke and on the street.

Maybe Tesla will hire him back.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Yes, if there's a silver lining here, the black dude will smoke up a bunch of his winnings in various substances, buy some wild bling, and possibly a mansion or two. It will be a great windfall for some Ferrari salesman and lucky mortgage broker. Then some angry baby mama will take the rest in child support. Ah well, live and learn.

Yes, based on the comments on this thread it is soooooo hard to imagine that the allegations may be true.

/s

efrenl wrote:

Yes, based on the comments on this thread it is soooooo hard to imagine that the allegations may be true.

/s

Yah...Anyone who thinks this guy might be a fraudster HAS to be a racist...

YOU are what's wrong with America...