Tesla seems like a bad place to work at if you're a black person. There was a black contractor who worked at Tesla. He sued due to racial abuse and was awarded millions by a jury. Being that Elon is of South African descent I am not surprised at the type of racist work environment he fosters at Tesla. White South Africans are very racist people, not all of them, but too many of them are very racist.

Black ex-Tesla worker awarded almost $137 million for racial abuse including being subjected to "N-word"

• A jury in San Francisco agreed that Owen Diaz was subjected to racial harassment and a hostile work environment.

• Diaz alleged in a lawsuit that he was harassed and faced "daily racist epithets," including the "N-word," while working at Tesla's Fremont plant in 2015 and 2016 before quitting. Diaz was a contracted elevator operator.

• Diaz alleged that employees drew swastikas and left racist graffiti and drawings around the plant. He contended that supervisors failed to stop the abuse.

• "Tesla's progressive image was a façade papering over its regressive, demeaning treatment of African-American employees," the lawsuit said.

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it sounds like we are trying these guys in the court of public opinion for:

That's what happens when someone is arrested. Thy are tried in the court of public opinion.

The only real crime here is a possessions charge based on a pretty arbitrary distinction between classes of firearms, which admittedly they knowingly failed to follow.

The distinction between a semi automatic gun and a machine gun is not arbitrary. The law is clear-cut on what is a machine gun.

Federal law defines a machine gun as “any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.” This definition includes the frame or receiver, any part or combination of parts designed and intended, solely and exclusively, for use in converting a weapon into a machine gun, and any combination of parts from which a machine gun can be assembled (26 USC § 5845(b), 27 CFR §§ 478.11 & 479.11). It does not include “antique firearms” (26 USC § 5845(a) & (g)).

They were also arrested and charged for having unregistered guns and unregistered silencers.

I also am sensitive to discriminating against people based on not liking their beliefs.

The guys who are arrested are not being discriminated against because of their beliefs. They were investigated and arrested due to their illegal actions.

If this was a couple of Jewish guys stashing illegal weapons in Hitler-led Germany would you apply the same standards?

Yes, they broke the law, they got caught, time to face the consequences.

and how to maintain fairness when dealing with people we have strong distaste for.

So far it looks like their civil rights were not violated so until something comes up that says otherwise. It looks like they're being treated fairly.

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