After progressives and greens for years pushed for a transition away from internal combustion engines to (allegedly) more ‘environmentally friendly’ EVs, suddenly ideological purity has become more important than air quality.
Tesla owners in Vienna have started finding threatening notes on their cars, Remix reports, telling them to sell their cars—or they will be vandalized.
“Our condolences! It’s not your fault. It will only be your fault if you don’t act now,” says one flyer found by Austrian Tesla owners, which goes on to tell them that their car is associated with “right-wing agitator” Elon Musk:
Maybe a few years ago you simply wanted to buy a cool car … Now you own a car that you may be ashamed of, whose value has gone to its knees and you have to be afraid every night that someone will scratch a big ‘f**k Tesla’ into your paintwork.
Other European Tesla owners have reported similar harassment. In Paris and Berlin, Teslas have been vandalized with paint and stickers, and Amsterdam has seen protestors confronting drivers for owning “capitalist machines.”
Somehow, two facts appear to elude these wannabe—or actual—vandals: One, selling a Tesla just transfers it to another owner and does nothing to harm the company’s bottom line; and two, as someone pointed out on social media: “‘If you wreck my Tesla, which I’ve already paid for, my insurance company buys another Tesla from Musk.”’
Back in the U.S., actress Alyssa Milano last year proudly posted that she could no longer own a Tesla, citing “hate and white supremacy” and had instead bought an all-electric Volkswagen. Milano was promptly informed (by Elon Musk, among others) that the company that manufactured her ideologically ‘clean’ new car was founded in 1937 by the German Labor Front, the national labor organization of the Nazi Party.
