[HN Gopher] Tesla factory is "racially segregated workplace," Ca...
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       Tesla factory is "racially segregated workplace," Calif. state
       agency alleges
        
       Author : lakis
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2022-02-10 21:08 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | worik wrote:
       | I am amazed that these stories from Tesla keep coming out
       | 
       | This does not happen to other corporations, with such frequency
       | and seriousness.
       | 
       | Is there some sort of reporting bias here? Or is Tesla really a
       | reprobate?
        
         | crate_barre wrote:
         | Elon is an organic target for cancel culture. I say organic
         | because I haven't been able to theorize how these things are
         | coordinated (the attacks on Joe Rogan all of a sudden). It
         | feels so coordinated but there is simply no central PR agency
         | doing it.
         | 
         | So, my best theory is that it's kinda like the paparazzi. You
         | find the celebrities going through a train wreck life situation
         | (divorce, drugs, etc) and cover them. This organically brings
         | the tabloids to specific targets.
         | 
         | Elon is a very natural target. In this case he has taken a
         | strong stance on workers being able to work during Covid, so in
         | a way he put his battle flag up on that hill. That's the hill
         | the parasites will flock to.
         | 
         | Rogan took a stance on free speech. So that's the hill they
         | fought him on (found all the shit he has to apologize for).
         | 
         | The market for this is quite natural at this point, and I have
         | no other words to describe it as repetitious as it is.
        
           | Gollapalli wrote:
           | US Government actually puts out lists of people who should be
           | banned/marginalized on social media. Almost certainly has
           | similar lists going out to NGO's, many of whose workers also
           | happen to operate prodigiously on social media. It's not
           | explicitly coordinated, so much as nudged and incentivized.
        
             | DoctorOW wrote:
             | If you're trolling this is pretty funny, if you're serious
             | this is even funnier.
        
         | s1artibartfast wrote:
         | Elon Musk has certainly brought his companies into the public
         | interest through his marketing and flamboyant takes on
         | political and social issues.
         | 
         | That said, I do think this story is newsworthy based on the
         | severity of the DFEH lawsuit and prior history with the Diaz
         | case. The bigger question is not if there is bias in news
         | reporting, but DFEH action. That is to say, is Tesla actually
         | an outlier in workplace environments or selected based on other
         | criteria.
        
         | DoctorOW wrote:
         | I think it's a little of column A, a little of column B. Column
         | A, because I'll bet it's much harder to find stuff like this on
         | similarly sized companies. Column B because when you do those
         | companies don't market themselves as a billionaire's generous
         | gift to save the world.
        
       | anonAndOn wrote:
       | I detect the voice of Elon in this: "Attacking a company like
       | Tesla that has done so much good for California should not be the
       | overriding aim of a state agency with prosecutorial authority,"
       | Tesla wrote.
       | 
       | "Message received" redux, perhaps? [0]
       | 
       | [0]https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259638112688304129
        
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