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I do not understand these kind of hate-promoting acts against the Tesla car owners.

If someone owns a car made by a Elon Musk's brand, it does not automatically mean that they are also supporting Trump's BS policies or Elon Musk's unhinged crusades. It might just mean that they like the car.

If someone intentionally conflates these two concepts, they are just finding an excuse to bully others.

If you want to protest against Trump or Elon Musk, go for it. Organize marches in DC every week. Protest with your wallet if you like. Do not buy their stuff. Or sell your stock. And I am sure there are other ways to express your opinion in an intelligent way.

But please, do not spread hate against people who happen to own their products. It is disingenuous. And it might lead to vandalism or even violence.

By far not every Tesla car owner is an Elon Musk fan or a Trump's supporter. Even if they chose to keep their car after "Musk went crazy", it does not automatically mean that they support Musk's or Trump's actions in any way, shape or form.

They might just have chosen a different way to protest.



I don't think #notAllTeslaOwners is going to convince people not to have these visceral emotional reactions. I'm not entirely sure what people expect when the worlds richest man makes a point of trying to make millions of people unhappy, trolling or otherwise. This is the natural outcome.


Having an emotional reaction is natural. We are intelligent species. We can deal with outbursts of emotions and tame them.

The problem is if such emotions materialize into physical actions like hate speech, bullying behavior or worse.


Unless its a cybertruck...


It has already lead to vandalism. Shooting at dealerships, lighting superchargers on fire. There's people spray painting Nazi and keying swastikas on Teslas. It's only a matter of time before it's done on a Jewish person's car.

Mind-blowingly dumb.


Already done, news came out of it in the last day.




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