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Project Include Drops Y Combinator As Peter Thiel Pledges $1.25 Million To Trump (theverge.com)

Peter Thiel's support for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has given Silicon Valley a headache. This past weekend, Thiel donated $1.25 million to his campaign, which is driving away partners from Thiel's Silicon Valley accelerator, Y Combinator. Today, Project Include, a community for building meaningful, enduring diversity and inclusion into tech companies, said that it would no longer work with Y Combinator startups. "Thiel's actions are in direct conflict with our values at Project Include," the group's co-founder, Ellen Pao, wrote in a Medium post. "Because of this continued connection to YC, we are compelled to break off our relationship with YC." The Verge reports: Founded in 2005, Y Combinator has incubated some of the biggest tech companies of the past decade, including Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe. It faced a barrage of criticism over the weekend for refusing to dissociate itself from Thiel, who took an advisory role with the organization in 2015. In a series of tweets, YC's president stood by Thiel. "Cutting off opposing viewpoints leads to extremism and will not get us the country we want," Sam Altman wrote. "Diversity of opinion is painful but critical to the health of a democratic society. We can't start purging people for political support." In her post, Pao rejected the idea that Thiel's donation could be dismissed as political speech. "We agree that people shouldn't be fired for their political views, but this isn't a disagreement on tax policy, this is advocating hatred and violence," she wrote. "Giving more power to someone whose ascension and behavior strike fear into so many people is unacceptable. His attacks on black, Mexican, Asian, Muslim, and Jewish people, on women, and on others are more than just political speech; fueled by hate and encouraging violence, they make each of us feel unsafe."

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  1. Re:Trump is fine with gay marriage... by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do you really want a politician out there who say "I was in favor eugenics in 1936, and I'm not going to change my mind just because it's 2016!"

    You are aware, I hope, that Planned Parenthood and the Abortion Industry for the most part was founded by Eugenicists? The stats even show them following forward with their program. There are a HELL of a lot more black babies aborted than their percentage of the population would suggest.

  2. Re:"Gay Culture" is blind devotion then? by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you murder a known-homosexual ambassador in, say, Benghazi, there's no homophobia at all involved, it's about a youtube video.

    (the Benghazi incident happened the week right before Obama's re-election, it made perfect sense for Hillary to provide cover the way she did)

  3. Re:Was that on purpose? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll say it. I only bothered to look at the first link, but it's mostly based on references to other Breitbart articles and a video interview with someone who claims to be in the know but doesn't establish any credentials.

    In other words it's the usual crap from Breitbart, utterly worthless without independent verification. Breitbart has a history of editing videos and so forth, verification is essential and lacking here.

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  4. Re: "Gay Culture" is blind devotion then? by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong. Someone of another another race is not necessarily a foreigner... Or perhaps you've never visited the US?

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  5. Re:Russia did it? by Xenographic · · Score: 4, Informative

    Almost forgot to give you the pictures connecting them: https://i.sli.mg/dNBRek.png

    And here's the YouTube video of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    She starts to appear around 17:35. Feel free to dispute any of the facts here, if you can. You can see it's the same person right down to the mole on her chest.

  6. Re:And THAT.... by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 2, Informative

    You didn't leave something out, did you?

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  7. Re:Trump is fine with gay marriage... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think you're mischaracterising Trump. It's more fair to say he's the "candidate who says what I hate and will certainly try to do it". Unlike Clinton, he doesn't have the backing of the Washington machine and has managed to alienate both parties. Both Clinton and Trump are likely to push policies that are counter to the interests of the majority of the population, the difference is that Clinton is more likely to succeed.

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  8. Re:"Gay Culture" is blind devotion then? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Informative

    The racism thing is probably because be refuses to dissociate himself with white supremacists and other overt, proud racists.

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  9. Re:"Gay Culture" is blind devotion then? by dywolf · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is Trump racist? YES!

    FTFY.

    A short and very incomplete list of completely racist things Trump has said or done:
    -"theres one of my blacks"
    -"mexico is sending us rapists"
    -"laziness is a trait in blacks"
    -"the judge is a Mexican"
    -"they don’t look like Indians to me... They don’t look like Indians to Indians.”
    -supports stop-and-frisk, as practiced by the NYPD (ie, unconstitutional and racially discriminatory), and wants it expanded nationwide, claiming it worked, contrary to all evidence
    -Obama's birth certificate
    -condoned the abuse and even beatings of multiple Black Lives Matter protesters and other minorities at his campaign rallies
    -regularly engages in anti-Semitism
    -treats his minority supporters as literal tokens
    -treats minorities and racial groups as monolithic stereotypes
    -thinks all African americans live in the inner city, are poor, without work, receiving welfare, and uneducated
    -saying 88% of white murders are committed by black folks
    -repeating statements from white supremacists multiple occasions
    -making blatant dog whistles to the alt-right, white supremacist crowd
    -not condemning or distancing from white supremacists campaigning for him, including David Duke
    -encouraged mob justice against the Central Park 5, and continues to insist they are guilty years after its proven otherwise, including spending 85k$ on full page ads in the paper advocating for their execution
    -being sued by the federal government on multiple occasions for not renting to minorities

    Hell, even when he claims to be trying to reach out, he's doing so in white communities and actually only repeating racist myths and stereotypes that are meant to appeal to white voters and make them feel better about voting for such overt racist.

    His father was a racist who went to KKK rallies. His sons are racist, and kep appearing on white supremacist radio programs..."accidentally". Once may be an accident. Twice, you need to fire your booking agent. four times and counting? its no longer accidental or someone else's fault.
    Donald Trump IS racist, regardless of the efforts of the ignorant to ignore it or explain it away.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
    http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/...

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  10. Re:"Gay Culture" is blind devotion then? by tbannist · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or you know, maybe because we heard Trump bragging about assaulting women, then denying it, pretending it was "locker room talk", and then we've seen almost a dozen women come forward and say he assaulted them. Then there's the recordings of him boasting about how he he would deliberately go backstage to peep at the Miss Teen Universe contestants, and the recordings of him (in his sixties) claiming he'd soon be dating 10 and 12 year old girls.

    Clearly, it's all the crooked press. How dare they play unedited recordings of Trump talking.

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