Musk 'wants to fire as many people of color as possible:' reporter says

@#9 ... he has 4 kids by Shivon Ziiis....an African-Canadian. ...

... Shivon Alice Zilis was born in Markham, Ontario, Canada to a Punjabi Indian mother and a Canadian father.[3] ...

@#13

Apparently, the shrimptacodan current alias seems to have a difficulty distinguishing the non-white skin of someone from India from a person from Africa.

But, is that really surprise?

Who is Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk's partner who announced birth of their 4th child? (March 2025)
www.hindustantimes.com

... Who is Shivon Zilis?

A Canadian businesswoman and executive at Neuralink, the neurotechnology company co-founded by Elon Musk, Shivon Zilis garnered significant public attention due to her connection with Musk, as reports revealed that she had twins with him in 2021.

Shivon and Musk welcomed two children, Azure and Strider, in 2021. In 2024, she welcomed their third child. She has reportedly moved into the Texas house that Musk built for all his 11 children.

The 39-year-old was born in Canada to an Indian mother, Sharda N, and a Canadian father, Richard Zilis. A former Tesla employee who worked as a Project Director between 2017 and 2019.

Shivon has previously also worked with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. She is one of the founding members of Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture firm backed by Bloomberg LP, where she led nine investments.

She was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of VCs in 2015 and was named among LinkedIn's 35 Under 35. ...

Johnny Clegg - Scatterlings Of Africa (1982)
www.youtube.com

Shrimpfyck is a ----------- FAGAT

Hire the most qualified. Do that and everything else takes care of itself.

"Do that and everything else takes care of itself."

Not if you dismantle Head Start programs at the same time.

@#15 ... A Canadian businesswoman and executive at Neuralink, ...

Wait, what?

Mr Musk is apparently boinking his employees?

Is that a cool thing to do?

Hire the most qualified. Do that and everything else takes care of itself.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-03-13 09:48 PM | Reply

Not when you're promoting white Christian nationalism it does not take care of itself. Just sayin.

Most qualified are often black women, you ----------- Nazi bitch.

Hire the most qualified. Do that and everything else takes care of itself.
#18 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

They are hiring the most qualified people. You racist piece of shht.

The problem you fkkking jackholes are having is it's no longer ONLY white men.

How odd to be hired based on merit rather than race or gender.

Hire the most qualified. Do that and everything else takes care of itself.

#18 | Posted by BellRinger

You're a masochist right? Dragging out some bait like that?

@#18 ... Hire the most qualified. Do that and everything else takes care of itself. ...

Really.

How so?

DOGE has been firing workers on probation, regardless of whether or not those workers are, as your current alias states, most qualified.

They've been fired simply because they are on probation.

And, probation includes those who have been recently promoted for doing their job well.

They were on probation in their new position.

They were promoted because they did their prior job well.

But, in DOGE's view, they are on probation, therefore they face the axe.

Firing those who have done their job well?

WTF?!?!?!?

So, please explain how the firing of all those who are on probation results in "everything else takes care of itself."

thx.

Yer up.

Don't hold your breath.

That troll only posts comments because he gets his jollies from reading people respond to his stupidity. It's a form of mental illness.

Several of his recent comments have been copied straight from Rightwing (social) media.

I doubt any of our Republican posters have had an original opinion in the past decade.

They're just regurgitating the hate they've been fed.

@#24 ... You're a masochist right? ...

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Be Not Too Hard (1974)
www.youtube.com

A fav, yet obscure, tune of mine from back in the day.

"Do-Wah-Diddy" Manfred Mann scored a base-clearing homer with this one, imo.

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
Be not too hard for life is short
And nothing is given to man
Be not too hard if he's sold or bought
For he must do the best he can

Be not too hard when he blindly dies
Fighting for things he does not own
Be not too hard when he tells lies
Or if his heart is sometimes stone

Be not too hard for soon he'll die
Often no wiser than he began
Be not too hard for life is short
And nothing is given to man
...

@#26 ... Don't hold your breath. ...

I don't.

What I do find curious, though, is the appearance of some aliases here at the same time, almost in sync.

Almost as if there is a troll farm, and people check in and out for their shift.

Yeah, back in the day, I used to run a message board (but never again, if you're curious, just ask).

That is one of the main reasons why I have so much admiration for this message board and how RCade manages it.

I have said this before, but major thanks to RCade for providing this message board.

DEI is being recognized for the toxicity that it is. The sooner it's shunned the better off our society will be.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-03-14 12:49 AM | Reply

You know who says DEI is to toxic?? White supremacists. That's who.

@#29 ... DEI is being recognized for the toxicity that it is. ...

That's an unusually harsh comment from your current alias.

I have two questions:

1) why the extreme position, all of a sudden?

2) what, specifically, is the toxicity of DEI that has driven your current alias to this extreme?

You know who says DEI is toxic? Black and brown people who are capable and don't want to be pigeon-holed into a false class of permanently oppressed people and who don't inherently hate caucasians and Asians based upon immutable traits.

@#32 ... You know who says DEI is toxic? ...

Besides your current alias?

Please inform me.

... Black and brown people ...

Got links?

It's funny - Laura Mohr brings up white supremacists (with the underlying implication that they make up a significant portion of our population, for starters and that all sorts of opinions get written off as 'white supremacy' when they are clearly not the case) and I don't see you asking Laura Mohr for any links, pretty much ever.

@#32

For the record, I'm not a fan of DEI.

I am a fan of people who are qualified to be placed in the position. That's what I endeavored to do when I was a hiring manager. And I have to say, the team was a mix of brown, white and black skin. But the skin color did not matter to me. The ability of the person did. And that team was great.

A different view...
She is evil': Amy Coney Barrett under attack by right wing after USAid ruling
www.theguardian.com

... Supreme court justice who frequently votes alongside conservative colleagues branded DEI judge' ...

The problem I do have, however, is the apparent bias towards skin color when determining who may be qualified for a position.

The systemic prejudice that has been with us for far too long.

So....

... You know who says DEI is toxic? ...

Got links?

Lamplighter,

I am totally fine with Amy Coney Barrett. She's smart and serious and what a lot of people don't realize the ideological split on the court is not nearly as stark as it seems.

"For the record, I'm not a fan of DEI.

Yea. This. Nicely stated by your current alias.

You know who says DEI is toxic? Black and brown people

Funniest thing I've read this troll post.

Black people know when Republicans attack DEI, or Woke, or CRT, or BLM ... it's all the same, racists being racists.

BullBringer being one of the biggest racists on the DR.

For the record, I'm not a fan of DEI.

This isn't about your personal hiring habits.

It's about the hundreds of companies across America who only hire White, CisHet men. Regardless of the qualifications of anyone else who applied.

This has been proven in studies where white, cishet men got jobs over more qualified people, who weren't white, cishet men.

Clownshack is now reduced to creating fantasy scenarios that rarely exist any more.

You are one of the biggest bigots on this site. You HATE women. That much is very clear. So, go pass out in a corner somewhere.

I am totally fine with Amy Coney Barrett.
#36 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

Thank God she's a White Republican, so you can be "totally fine" with her.

Clearly a White, Republican Man would have been your preferred choice.

But she's acceptable ... oops ... I mean, "totally fine".

BullBringer isn't a serious person.

All he does is post hate and rightwing talking points.

He hasn't had an original thought in years.

Does BullBringer know any black or brown people?

My money is on, "Nope."

He wouldn't dare talk to anyone with more melanin than himself.

He's sure they'd rob him and eat his dog.

@#38 ... This isn't about your personal hiring habits.

It's about the hundreds of companies across America who only hire White, CisHet men. Regardless of the qualifications of anyone else who applied. ...

I do agree.

My personal hiring habits were mentioned only as a response to a comment.

But as far as the apparent innate and systemic racial bias in hiring, my current opinion is that, yes, it is there.

It exists. And, of late, seems to be rallied.

I will also say that my view is that the current anti-DEI movement is, in my view, little more than a thinly-veiled disguise upon a return to the "white Christian men only" days of yore in hiring.

Looking at this a little differently ...

I have a family member who once told me (over Thanksgiving dinner, no less) that his wife should be in the kitchen, "barefoot and pregnant," making sure his dinner was on the table when he got home from work.

Not surprisingly, he was a devout Christian.

I'll just say, that was an interesting Thanksgiving dinner, and leave it there.

Back in the 80's this song had trouble being played on radio stations ...

en.wikipedia.org

...The song's title deals with the subject of racism in the radio industry, at a time when more cutting-edged songs and the radio stations in general were starting to open up to newer formats like rhythmic contemporary, which genre this song predates.

It also took on how station policies dictates what can or can not be played on air. This was evidenced by Johnson, who recalled how a radio station refused to play a song about an interracial relationship. That experience prompted Johnson and Gane to write about their feelings over this practice by recalling the events, in which they use lyrics like "I dream in Black and White" and call for stations in general to "Stand Up and Face the Music/This Is 1984!"[citation needed]

The single was also controversial in its own right, as radio stations avoided playing the single because of the song's title and lyrics[citation needed] despite being a modest hit in Canada, where it reached No. 26. In the United States, the single peaked at No. 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 2 on the Dance/Disco chart, where it reached number 2 in 1984.[2] ...

Martha and the Muffins - Black Stations/White Stations
www.youtube.com

genius.com

...
A voice inside my car told me today
There was a song of love they wouldnotplay
She was black,he was white
A voice inside mycar told me today

Black stations, white stations break down the doors
Stand up and face the music, this is 1984
Black stations, white stations feet on the floor
Dance on the ceiling with us, this is 1984, ha!

When I dream, I dream in black and white
Trip the light fantastic through the night
Dance with me while they sleep
When I dream, I dream in black and white.
...