| Alpha UX Enstsson Sued For
Talking Bestiality on Slack As SDNY Magistrate
Judge Urged
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 9 – Michelle Chu, a
43-year old Asian American
woman of Chinese descent, went
to work in 2015 at Alpha UX,
Inc., a New York City-based
tech start-up. She says
Alpha's CEO Thor Ernstsson
made "sexist, racist, abusive
or otherwise offensive
comments" to her.
She sued.
On July 9 U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Paul G. Gardephe held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Chu says
that Ernstsson's account image
on Slack was a picture of a
statue of a naked man.
He abused Chu on
Slack, she says, and "Mayowa
Fadina, one of Alpha's only
African-American employees,
was subjected to inappropriate
racist comments that were so
severe it nearly led to a
physical altercation at an
Alpha work
function."
Chu says that
"Alpha's employees openly
'joke' - on Alpha's oen Slack
channels - about one another's
six lives, masturbation, rape
and having sex with
animals."
On July 9
Judge Gardephe said they could
take all this to Magistrate
Judge Netburn, who was
handling the Magistrates'
Court that day.
The case is Chu
v. Alpha UX, Inc., 20-cv-497
(Gardephe)
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