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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.
"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."
Neither Thiel NOR Trump promote opposition to gender or racial equality. Thiel and Trump do support nationalism over globalism but that's not the same thing.
But yet these same self-righteous assholes who want "diversity" and to "connect the world" will AND ARE happily censoring any opposition to their stated political candidates while running a counter ops campaign. In effect, controlling the speech to further utopia but only as they see it. The very worst ideology.
Perhaps they should take the board out of their eyes before complaining about the splinter in others.
You might also consider it the support of the lesser or the two evils being presented to us this time around.
Many are likely voting one way or the other on the potential for the Supreme Court balance alone. That's actually my main issue now, along with gun rights.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
So, support for a corrupt, lying manipulator shouldn't be cause for outrage? Because that's the only realistic alternative in this election. We have two horrible candidates running. If you don't see that and hurl epithets at people who make a different choice from you, the problem is with you.
Sure you read it, and it most certainly is true.
But since both Mitt Romney and John McCain were smeared with the same shit, it makes the whole left wing argument moot. It's a political tactic designed to sink a candidate, and not based on reality.
Personally I think Trump is a douchebag, but I thought that 30 years ago. The people having vapors over his behavior today is hilarious.
I hope you SJW left wing progressive weirdos know what you're doing. Because you're going to get it good and hard when you finally step out of line.
Just ask any former Communist from the Soviet Union what that means. They found out all too well.
Has Thiel himself come out for these views against equality? If so, I missed that.
Thiel has stated that the 19th amendment to the United States constitution (granting female suffrage) has "rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.”
It is clear that the SJWs only believe in one kind of Diversity...of Race
They are not interested in Diversity of Opinion
They are not interested in Diversity of Thought
They are not interested in the Diversity of Goals
If you think differently than them, have different opinions, or don't share their SJW goals, you are Other and are to be despised.
Don't bother arguing otherwise.
Radio host Marshall Gilbert was fired for voting for Prop 8
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When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
His flagship policy is a wall to keep illegal immigrants out.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
>> He wants to ban all Muslims from entering the US.
Will you stop spreading this tired bit of propaganda? He merely wants to stop the flow of people from Muslim countries _with may of which we're de-facto at war_, and then only until appropriate vetting procedures are established. This never was about a blanket "Muslim" ban.
Can you guys and galls get it through your thick skulls that letting in military-age men of an uncertain background from the countries where radical Islam is a dominant ideology is an absolutely idiotic thing to do? What's so bad about figuring out how to make sure you're not letting in an ISIS or Al Quaeda operative?