The worst thing is that it’s actually not a 1:1 comparison.
Black people (and by extension people of color, albeit to differing amounts) were not allowed to participate in this country and were used by the wealthy. Hundreds of years later, Black people are overwhelmingly harassed and discriminated against for the color of their skin. Even if we pretended to agree no reparations are necessary, at the end of the day, they just want to be treated equally.
Tesla on the other hand, was created by a monster who was funded by blood emeralds from daddy’s mines in apartheid South Africa. Has constantly shown to make horrible business decisions. He constantly exploits millions of people a day, all the while working at crippling our government through lobbying. Now he is trying to forcibly take power in a country where he was not born, and with evidence to show he was in the country illegally. He is a nazi sympathizer and is pushing towards an authoritarian ethno-state.
He can get fucked. I’m not for violence, but I am not the least bit surprised people are retaliating to this monster ruining millions of lives.
I’m surprised this wasn’t more widely commented. Elon could just stop putting his hand in the candy jar (stop interfering with democracy) and teslas would start to recover. Systematic racism has lead people to believe that it never even existed (amongst so many other atrocities) and that suffering is still felt today. Definitely not a 1-1 but a great entry point in getting closer to understanding. Sadly, they clearly lack the empathy and curiosity involved in concerning themselves with the lives of others which is often demonstrated in their own blood families. If you can’t care enough to try to understand the perspective of someone you gave birth to, caring about strangers is far too esoteric.
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u/mexi_exe 14d ago
The worst thing is that it’s actually not a 1:1 comparison.
Black people (and by extension people of color, albeit to differing amounts) were not allowed to participate in this country and were used by the wealthy. Hundreds of years later, Black people are overwhelmingly harassed and discriminated against for the color of their skin. Even if we pretended to agree no reparations are necessary, at the end of the day, they just want to be treated equally.
Tesla on the other hand, was created by a monster who was funded by blood emeralds from daddy’s mines in apartheid South Africa. Has constantly shown to make horrible business decisions. He constantly exploits millions of people a day, all the while working at crippling our government through lobbying. Now he is trying to forcibly take power in a country where he was not born, and with evidence to show he was in the country illegally. He is a nazi sympathizer and is pushing towards an authoritarian ethno-state.
He can get fucked. I’m not for violence, but I am not the least bit surprised people are retaliating to this monster ruining millions of lives.