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Tesla CEO Elon Musk departs from the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Matt Rourke AP Photo

Tesla CEO Elon Musk departs from the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Matt Rourke AP Photo

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Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, interviewed by CBS/KPIX Channel 5.

Ann Skeet, Senior Director at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, said the company’s blog post was “inauthentic” and demonstrated a “haphazard approach to leadership.”

“I think Elon Musk has developed a tone of disrespect for individuals and disdain for the institutions that protect them,” Skeet told KPIX 5. “He seems to eschew the whole idea or notion of government as having some responsibility for the common good. And so to now be pointing to the overall common good of the state of California, and how they’ve contributed to it, to me, rings false.”

Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, interviewed by CBS/KPIX Channel 5

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