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For people who wonder why YC and pg are okay with some of Peter Thiel's more extreme behavior, this is why. For his "weird" behavior, yeah, probably. For some
by kafkaesq 10y ago
For people who wonder why YC and pg are okay with some of Peter Thiel's more extreme behavior, this is why.
For his "weird" behavior, yeah, probably.
For some of his "other" behavior -- his support for Trump, generally; and his (very recent, and very disturbing) attemps to soft-peddle, and normalize sexual violence -- more likely it's because they lack awareness of some basic political history.
- ionforce 10y agoYou're getting downvotes. Could you explain some of the stuff you're describing? Maybe the thinking about normalizing sexual violence?
- kafkaesq 10y agoIt mostly refers to a discussion -- now flagged, though there's no reason it should be, as it's perfectly within HN's community guidelines -- about an interview he had in the NYT recently ("Peter Thiel, Trump's Tech Pal, explains himself", or some variant thereof) in which he definitely soft-peddles, and attempts to district attention from the famous Billy Bush tape, in which the Grabber-in-Chief-Elect says, well, you know what: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13378029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13378029 That's what I mean by "normalizing" -- "it's no big deal, what are all these people so uptight about?" -- that whole line. As for "basic awareness of political history", I'm referring of course to events in the 1920s and early 1930s. With respect to which it is, in my view, really, really hard not to see close parallels (despite certain differences) with the current situation. Unless, that is, one spent one's formative intellectual years going out of one's way to not become aware of certain things.
- kafkaesq 10y agoOr maybe you should ask the downvoters to explain themselves. Unless that's the only tool of "expression" they have.