Posted on 07/09/2020 8:44:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Jalopnik reports that a group of Ford Motor Company employees want the auto giant to stop making vehicles for police.
Ford employees have asked the automaker to stop building police cars, according to a Jalopnik report published Wednesday. The request comes as countless Black Lives Matter protests continue throughout America and around the globe, sparked by the killing of George Floyd.
Jalopnik fails to report that since the protests devolved into riots and “defund the police” swept across the nation, violent crime and murder have surged in several major cities, including New York, Chicago, Baltimore, and Seattle.
The employee letter is typical of the anti-police hysteria of our moment:
“Throughout history, the vehicles that Ford employees design and build have been used as accessories to police brutality and oppression,” workers wrote in a letter to Ford CEO Jim Hackett and Chairman Bill Ford, according to Jalopnik. “We know that while many join, support or supply law enforcement with good intentions, these racist policing practices that plague our society are historic and systemic — a history and system perpetuated by Ford for over 70 years — ever since Ford introduced the first-ever police package in 1950. As an undeniable part of that history and system, we are long overdue to ‘think and act differently’ on our role in racism.”
All these demand notes sound the same. They have a similar ominous and accusatory voice and style. Serious question: Who is writing them? The mainstream media never turns over that particular rock.
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Color me unimpressed.
Yep. Bring ‘em back just before unemployment would kick in. Some time off allows people to consider life, the universe and everything.
Ford... Stop screwing around, just fire the hate-America bastards.
In the diplomatic world a nice response is the way it is done. A ‘nice response’ is always worded with timid, milk-toast language. The ‘strongly worded letter’ is always perceived by parties not directly involved as a slap across the face with a cotton ball. It is the language of wimps.
Dealing with the left IMHO is rapidly mimmicing how one has to deal with the muslim. The only thing that gets the attention of your average double-digit IQ muslim is naked, merciless force. When opening negotiations with the muslim, the first thing the muslim puts on the table is your death. How do you counter that? In other words there is no reasoning with them be they muslim or leftists.
ya. Offering to relieve their conscience of the burden of building a tool of oppression such as the Ford Police Interceptor would have been my first go to response here.
but why do the cars have to be white?
How many Ford employees actually made the demands? Most of these protests are by a very small number of people who act like they have a big voice.
I don't think they would get it though.
Any employee who did not want to make police vehicle should be reassigned or terminated. I would not trust them to make a quality vehicle if they don’t even want to make it. Police vehicle safety is important.
Just as when some on FreeRepublic were saying have mexico build the wall - no way I would want anyone building the wall to also be trying to cross the border illegally or otherwise benefitting from the USA while not being a USA citizen.
Didn’t white people besides inventing cars..didn’t they also invent...cell phones ...internet ...air conditioning...stereos..mp3 Players...satellites ..rockets...probably the wheel?
Agreed. That said, I thought his response was very good.
I think some corporations are learning from the miserable experiences of FB and other tech firms...you can never be woke enough, and what was woke when you said it may fifteen minutes later lead to your being declared an Enemy of the People.
“safer communities for all” sir, means
Addressing black on everybody crime
Until that issue is “addressed” your words ring hollow
For the sake of argument, let’s accept as a given that there is systemic racism in law enforcement. How does it then logically follow that the answer is to abolish the police? Should we also abolish education, healthcare, and any other endeavor where “inequalities” exist? Shouldn’t the answer be to improve the system?
A good ES&D (eat shit and die) letter is always better than a simple FU
I’ll say one thing! BLM has caused cities to buy more police cars!!!
“A group of employees”?
How many? Have they been given the janitorial jobs at the plant?
Well that’s because they are stupid.
“When opening negotiations with the muslim, the first thing the muslim puts on the table is your death. How do you counter that?”
If they put one death then you put 10 deaths. /;^)
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