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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Peter Thiel's Trump Ties In Internal Memo (theverge.com)
Soon after it was announced that Project Include, a community for building meaningful, enduring diversity and inclusion into tech companies, would no longer work with Y Combinator startups, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended Thiel's status as a Facebook board member in a message to employees. "We can't create a culture that says it cares about diversity and then excludes almost half the country because they back a political candidate," Zuckerberg wrote. "There are many reasons a person might support Trump that do not involve racism, sexism, xenophobia, or accepting sexual assault." The Verge reports: A screenshot of the memo was posted to Hacker News yesterday, and it later surfaced on Boing Boing. A Facebook spokesman confirmed the authenticity of the five-paragraph memo to The Verge. It appears to have been posted on Facebook for Work, the enterprise version of Facebook that the company recently made available to other companies. Thiel's endorsement of Trump has put those CEOs in a difficult position. On one hand he is a close adviser; on the other, his support for an erratic, racist demagogue has outraged many of their employees and partners. Like Y Combinator's Sam Altman before him, Zuckerberg defended the company's ties to Thiel by saying that the company has a moral obligation to consider a variety of viewpoints, no matter how abhorrent. "We care deeply about diversity," Zuckerberg wrote. "That's easy to do when it means standing up for ideas you agree with. It's a lot harder when it means standing up for the rights of people with different viewpoints to say what they care about. That's even more important." Of course, as the designer Jason Putorti wrote on Medium this week, Thiel already has an outsized capacity to stand up for ideas he agrees with: he spent $1.25 million to promote them. Zuckerberg's memo reads as if he is defending Thiel's right to post on Facebook. In fact, the question is whether someone who promotes opposition to gender and racial equality should be allowed to serve as a steward for a company whose stated mission is to connect the world.
Not only does Trump not have such an agenda, 99% of his followers have nothing to do with racism, sexism, xenophobia, or accepting sexual assault. Zuck just insulted nearly all Trump supporters, but that's no surprise coming from a globalist asshole.
You are a fucking idiot.
Bundle together all the BS you can, it's all you've got. This isn't the government acting against anyone. Go read the constitution. At least try to, and don't skip the hard words either.
Retard I'm going to try one last time. You need to put down the kool-aid and realizing the impossibility of the shit coming out of your mouth, much less going around in that shit sack thing you call a brain. Trump fails to appreciate all American ideals, he is the definition of anti-american and his BS tagline shows it. America never stopped being great, it advanced over the inbred retards that couldn't learn new skills. H1B visas are restricted to situations with no local laborers, that's the point of it. Trump fails to develop a coherent position on anything because he can't think. His followers follow him because they can't think. That is why they can't fucking adapt. They DO need to change. There is literally no alternative. Destroying American won't help or save them.