evidence: Like the employees of Twitter, who reportedly reacted to yesterday’s news with "shock and dismay," a lot of people are not enthused about the idea of Elon Musk buying the social media network. But now, he is, and if you’re not familiar with the guy, or just think of him as the dude who sells electric cars and is really into space, you might be wondering why so many people are up in arms. And the answer is: He’s a huge jerk! Who regularly uses his massive platform and other sources of power to do bad things! [...] - Reopening a Tesla factory in violation of public health orders, where 450 cases were subsequently recorded - Running a company (Tesla) that was ordered to pay nearly $137 million to a former Black employee who said the company ignored repeated complaints that he was called the N-word and that his colleagues "had drawn swastikas and scratched a racial epithet in a bathroom stall and left drawings of derogatory caricatures of Black children around the factory." (In a message to Tesla employees, a human resources executive downplayed the man’s allegations, noting he was a contractor, not a full-time staffer, and that other witnesses had said that while they heard racial slurs, they were used in a "friendly" manner. The H.R. executive added that the company was "not perfect" at the time of the incidents, and "is still not perfect," but has "come a long way.")