Burn the witch!

LOL, sorry. I love the passion, this is just my knee jerk reaction as a former kid forced to study Hannah Arendt and The Crucible and the banality of true evil in one underpaid public school teacher's desperate attempt to convince my teenage class how very present the possibility of indifferent evil is in all of us. What I figured out thanks to this teacher, years later, is that she wanted us to lead with compassion and a desire to understand the relevant thinking rather than punish or cancel a few symbolic 'useful idiots.' In my experience within my work in IOs and pharma, I begin to think inequality in a system makes people uncomfortable, and they respond either positively or negatively - through further separation (mentally and physically) or seeking connection (which is harder, let's be honest.) Within government and industry in the UK, inequality is at record highs. You work in a university talking to students - maybe, once the justified anger subsides a little, you can propose a theory that will speed up better connections within this group? I'm not sure making an example of automotive leadership is going to be enough of a deterrent to change the overall system. I'm not against it, mind you, but I'm trying to be less punitive in my older age. As a white American lady, it's in my own interests;)