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What are you suggesting that YC say or do? Should they be compelled or forced to make a statement?

• idlewords 10y ago
  They should say whatever they want, but remember that silence looks an awful lot like assent.
  • tptacek 10y ago
    His silence here is assent. He'd rather we not recognize it as such, and I feel bad for him because I think he'd rather not recognize it as such either. But Graham's own writing spells out what makes his relationship with Thiel different than that of a relationship between employers and employees. If he can discriminate against mothers with young children, he cannot claim that the unfairness of discrimination prevents him from severing ties with Thiel.
  • tacticus 10y ago
    The current chief of the Australian army has a great line on this. "The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. that goes for all of us, but especially those, who by their rank, have a leadership role."