Uber CEO on Saudi Killing of Jamal Khashoggi: 'People Make Mistakes'

[JonLP24]

The CEO of Uber has compared the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to “mistakes” his company made with self-driving cars. In an interview with Axios, Dara Khosrowshahi was asked about Khashoggi’s brutal murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year. Saudi Arabia is Uber’s fifth-largest shareholder and the head of the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund is on its board of directors. “I think that [the Saudi] government said that they made a mistake,” Khosrowshahi said. “It’s a serious mistake. We’ve made mistakes, too, with self-driving and we stopped driving and we’re recovering from that mistake. People make mistakes. It doesn’t mean that they can never be forgiven. I think they’ve taken it seriously.” Khosrowshahi called Axios after the interview to express regret for what he said and later sent a statement saying: “I said something in the moment that I do not believe. When it comes to Jamal Khashoggi, his murder was reprehensible and should not be forgotten or excused.”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/dara-khosrowshahi-uber-ceo-on-khashoggi-murder-people-make-mistakes

[no_hypocrisy]

1. The brutal and painful killing of an American journalist is being equated with

poor judgment ? ? ? ?

[uponit7771]

2. Ubers CEO did ... NOT ... help himself.

[dchill]

3. Another day, another uber-richster with a cratered moral compass.

[guillaumeb]

4. So people accidentally dismember somneone with a bonesaw?

Dara Khosrowshahi is simply another predatory capitalist bordering on a sociopathic capitalist.

[blm]

5. ✔️

[crickets]

7. just bordering on? nt

[Farmer-Rick]

6. The filthy rich, even the remaining feudal kings, are so corrupt they can't recognize murder.

They have gone so far into a corrupt and criminal mind set they don't recognize other's obvious crimes. The filthy rich are born into corruption, raised on corruption and live on corruption.

[Celerity]

10. Balzac

1834, Revue de Paris, Volume 12, Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, Seconde Partie: L’entrée dans le monde

Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

[MustLoveBeagles]

8. Are you fucking kidding me?!

[UniteFightBack]

9. Easily one of the worst quotes I've heard in a while and that's pretty bad thing to say when you are

living in the age of dump.

[RockRaven]

11. Like Uber needs more reasons for people to hate their company...

They are a blight on our society and economy. Moral monsters too.

[NCLefty]

12. I don't think I've ever heard one good thing about Uber. Ever.

[RainCaster]

13. I just deleted my Uber account

While reading this, they broke my last straw.

[RainCaster]

17. and my Lyft account too

In both cases, they don't make it easy. Glad to be done with them both.

[VarryOn]

14. Another reason to go with Lyft...

For the life of me, I dont understand why businesses wade into political and controversial topics (although I dont see Khasshogi's murder as controversial). If I were an Uber shareholder, I'd be pissed.

[TheRealNorth]

15. Sell now if you are

Uber might be done if this gets mainstream attention.

[dalton99a]

16. Like when the server gave you latte instead of cappuccino

or when you ordered a blond hooker and they sent you a brunette

[robbob]

18. Maybe if the self driving car killed its passenger,

dismembered the body with a bone saw and then disappeared the remains. Oh, and not by accident but on purpose, and by design.

Then maybe you could compare the two things. Otherwise...not so much...