Elon Musk on Tesla Austin firing and bar killings
The question Elon Musk lands on is whether people like that should be let into the country at all. The person he's describing had worked at the Tesla factory in Austin until December of the previous year, got fired after a violent assault on a woman who stepped on his prayer rug there, and months later killed three students in a downtown Austin bar. The framing isn't a random mental health episode, it's a belief system that ranks its own rules over everyone else's rights and meets any perceived slight with violence. His wording: "Now I don't think we should allow people like that into the country. Do you?"
Transcript (en)
We had someone who was working at the Tesla factory in Austin until December of last year. He was fired because he assaulted a woman who stepped on his prayer rug in the factory. Okay, so she wasn't expecting anyone to be praying in the factory, and he was praying in the factory. She accidentally stepped on his prayer rug, and he assaulted her, violently assaulted her. So he was fired for that. And then a few months later, he went and killed three students in the bar in downtown Austin. Now, I think we shouldn't let people like that into the country. Do you?
