Tesla Starts Moving Past Woke, Fires LGBTQ+ Diversity Chief

The Tesla corporation is starting to move past woke politics and just proved it by firing the president of its LGBTQ+ community and a leader involved in diversity and inclusivity programs at the company.

These two weren’t the only ones to be released, granted. They were part of a wave of layoffs. But the fact that Tesla dumped these representatives of leftist, woke culture is telling.

Per Electrek:

Earlier this month, we reported on Musk telling Tesla executives in an email that they need to cut 10% of the workforce and pause hiring due to having a “super-bad feeling” about the economy.

Later, the CEO decided to clarify the Tesla layoffs in an email to all employees. He claimed that the 10% reduction would be for “salaried headcount” due to Tesla becoming overstaffed following a long growth phase.

Tesla ramped up the layoffs last week, and we reported that unlike what Musk said, they did include hourly employees.

Now we learn that many employees involved in diversity and inclusivity programs were part of the layoffs – including the president of Tesla’s LGBTQ+ community – and a lead involved in diversity and inclusivity programs at the company.

According to sources familiar with the matter, Bobby Berretta-Paris, a five-year Tesla veteran, was let go last week. He was hired as a recruiter and promoted three times during his tenure. He was also the volunteer president of LGBTQ+ at Tesla.

Sources also told Electrek about a software engineer that was also let go by Tesla last week. They had been working at Tesla for four years – most recently as senior software engineer in charge of naming conventions in Tesla’s vehicle UI team – and had been promoted three times. The software engineer volunteered as a diversity and inclusion leader and was involved in employee protection when it came to issues of diversity and inclusion

This is a bold move. Ordinarily, these “diversity” pushers have been untouchable. Tesla just proved that they are no longer in that rarefied position.

And that is a good thing.

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