Musk didn't seem to mind when the media cycle fawned over him endlessly.
Hype comes with scrutiny. Nobody put a gun to Musk's head and told him to appear on talk shows, to cameo in Hollywood blockbusters, etc. If he wasn't prepared to make that tradeoff he shouldn't have done it.
I don't think davesque's comment said anything about "fault".
He said he's gotten tired of all these stories about Tesla and Musk, so he's unlikely to buy a Tesla now.
That's a statement about davesque and how his frustration is souring him on the brand. Fault doesn't really play into it.
How could "but it was just a generic racial slur aimed at a whole nation!" make this any better? The correct line of defense would be "Musk said something stupid, move on".
He's a CEO, not a 12 year old boy, FFS.
Musk is not 12.
I can't believe somebody would seriously try to justify his pedo insult...What's next? justifying Trump?
And 10% of Thailand’s GDP is based on the sex industry or $6.4 billion a year. “Pedo” is kind of a misused connotation but when people get attacked their impulse is to respond with a personal attack.
It’s not a “meltdown”. It’s just human nature magnified by Twitter.