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Why Silicon Valley Won't Be the Green Car Detroit
thecarchik writes "NPR boldly pronounced, 'The new automobile of the 21st century is likely to benefit from the culture of Silicon Valley, where people are used to taking a chip, a cell or an idea and working on it until it becomes something big.' We've thought about it for a year, and discussed it with many people. And we don't believe it. Silicon Valley is the wrong place to build an auto industry, for three main reasons."
You're welcome to justify your bigotry, but it's still bigotry.
Alternately, a rational person might ask themselves what percentage of the 9/11 hijackers were wearing traditional Muslim garb. Even suicide mission terrorists are only so stupid.
So his personal opinion in an opinion piece gets him fired?
NPR won't let their employees attend even nominally political rallies, so yes.
He even went on to say how much he is against outright hatred and racism based on work he has done.
Did he say how one of his best friends is a muslim too?
Sorry but NPR is showing its true colors. You must "one of us" or you are gone. Sad.
When "one of us" means not a bigot, then yes.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.