I recently encountered several car enthusiasts who dismiss the criticism of #Tesla as a #Fascist car company by saying, “wait till you learn about VW”, or “do you know who Porsche was?”
First of all, two wrongs don’t make a right. The hypothetical existence of other Fascist companies does not excuse the Elon’s Fascism.
Second, Volkswagen Auto Group acknowledges their past, condemn it, and own up to their evils (https://www.volkswagen-group.com/de/historie-15914). While Ford the car company doesn’t directly address Henry Ford’s antisemitism on their website, the head of the Ford Foundation (which owns non-voting shares of FMC) has explicitly condemned it (https://www.fordfoundation.org/news-and-stories/stories/rejecting-the-rising-tide-of-antisemitism/).
Their acknowledgement of past evil, and their explicit opposition to it, is an important distinction between these Hitler-era companies and Tesla today. Elon’s current embrace of #Fascism should have caused Tesla to reject and fire him on the spot, but they have not. That is materially different.
#whataboutism #cars #vw #ford
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