How to respond to “Why don’t they just get a Tesla”

You hear someone say something bothersome. Maybe even offensive. Your first impulse is to scold them and call them classist and insensitive. You want to verbally tar and feather them with all your choice political insults.

You then realize they are not saying it in bad faith or to hurt people. They just don’t know. Or are too limited in their perspective to know better. You…