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It's funny you say this—the first thing I did, even before reading the article, was search for "Thiel." It's going to be hard for me to take this sort of thing
by ForrestN 10y ago
It's funny you say this—the first thing I did, even before reading the article, was search for "Thiel." It's going to be hard for me to take this sort of thing seriously, this telegraphing of benevolence which is so central to YC's branding, until they address the fact that one of their "partners" is such an obviously destructive force within society. They don't even have to do anything but say goodbye, and they won't.
- sverige 10y agoActually, the fact that they have not bowed to the pressure to "disavow" Peter Thiel merely for his political views in one of the things that makes me think highly of YC.
- nilved 10y agoYou must really love Hugo Boss and IBM as well. It's so great that they were able to ignore politics when they were making uniforms and mainframes for nazis.
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- ForrestN 10y agoYes, that sounds much more useful to the world than, you know, not partnering with people that are happy to harm it.
- purple-again 10y agoWhile I disagree with many of Trumps beliefs and by proxy probably many of Thiels as well the fact that they refused to further the division of our country by excommunicating him for his beliefs is a huge pro in my book. The founder of Rails saying he would fire any of his employees that supported Trump was sickening and that kind of attitude will never allow us to move from bloodshed and war to one people.
- mjmsmith 10y agoAs opposed to supporting and voting for a man who conducted a years-long racist campaign to smear the previous president, which demonstrates great judgment and a deep-seated desire to heal the divide.
- nilved 10y agoThis isn't the political climate you're used to. We are at the point where you can replace "Trump" with "literal nazis" and it's not ironic. Yes, it is to right to fire Trump supporters. Not only is it right, it is your moral imperative.
- angry-hacker 10y agoThat is just your opinion and echo chamber. I give a lot of respect for them for not doing so. Of course, it's because of money, since Thiel is powerful -- any other guy would have kicked out immediately, but nevertheless considering SV is a liberal echo chamber I give them some respect. Now only if they has protested against Obama wiretapping the whole world as well...
- XJOKOLAT 10y agoI up-voted you.