They didn't say it was okay.

Umm if I type it I'd get flagged and probably banned.

Also, I never said it's fine. I just said $3 million in damages is ridiculous.

I'm guessing you are not familiar with the case and only read the CNN coverage.

Employers have responsibilities to maintain certain standards at a workplace. Tesla absolutely flaunted those standards to a ridiculous degree. The first jury on the case awarded over $100 million to the plaintiff.

Go look at the evidence presented in the trial. It's not one bad word being used once.

I'd argue it's a first amendment violation for the state to require an employee be fired or reprimanded for saying/writing mean words; but that's not to say there wasn't more to it than that.

The civil rights act itself is a slap in the face of the 10th amendment and should be repealed post haste.

Why is $3 million in damages in this case ridiculous?

$3 million dollars because people said MEAN WORDS to you.

A number intended to be punitive, yes.

What is your framework for believing that number to be ridiculous? Do you know how such numbers are decided?

Yes. Punitive damages are not appropriate to begin with in this case, and certainly not that high.

A jury decided otherwise regarding the correctness of punitive damages.

Once that was decided, such damages don't scale by damage done; they scale by a figure that would inconvenience the company so as to discourage such flouting of their legally-mandated corporate responsibility in the future.

> I just said $3 million in damages is ridiculous.

Are you black?