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by ohsnapman 1544 days ago
Racism in auto manufacturing seems to be as rampant as sexual harassment and discrimination in tech. Without even trying that hard:

Ford: https://www.hometownstations.com/news/ford-employees-say-rac...

GM: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/us/gm-toledo-racism-lawsuit/i...

Toyota: https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/news/toyota-says-it-no-...

Honda: https://www.courthousenews.com/honda-plant-accused-of-tolera...

That being said, this isn't the first time in the last few years there's been a suit against Tesla. Either this isn't been a focus for management, or their remediation has been deficient in preventing this sort of toxicity from flaring up out in the open.

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Thanks for this context. I was disinclined to believe the story because it sounded so unusual (especially with the context being "silicon valley company"), which seems like a reasonably good filter for predicting that a news story will turn out to be fake. But from this it seems plausible that there's just a very different culture going on on production floors. This is pretty awful.