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Why even bother? All this comment you've replied to actually does is prove Thiel's point. It still amazes me that the irony is so lost on them..
by milankovic 9y ago
Why even bother? All this comment you've replied to actually does is prove Thiel's point.
It still amazes me that the irony is so lost on them..
- erispoe 9y agoThat's not irony, that's the paradox of tolerance [1]. An open society can tolerate all opinions except for opinions directed against an open society. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
- tuna-piano 9y agoHaha. Peter Thiel - "People here don't accept conservative ideas" Commentor - "I love diversity, but get the hell out with those opinions!" ... Obviously there are some opinions I find abhorrent and wouldn't want to be associated with (Nazis, etc). However, I think both that I'm more tolerant of offensive opinions than the commentor, and that I also find really nothing very offensive about what I've read about Thiel. Thiel doesn't seem that far right to me, and has been ostracized. But is any thought too far-left to be accepted in SV? You can support Venezuelan policies, Cuban policies, taxing rich people 90%, racism against whites and asians... and no one's trying to kick them out of civil society.
- andrewprock 9y agoYour list of straw-men is incredible. I'm certain I can find active criticism from Silicon Valley regarding all of those topics.
- tuna-piano 9y agoYes, I think it's socially ok to criticize the extreme left (all my examples were extreme left positions). I do not think it's socially ok in SV to be more than a little conservative. After all, companies Thiel was associated with were pressured to kick him out just for the fact that he supported a candidate that was voted for by ~50% of the country! Maybe that's because of Trump's other non-political characteristics, but I'm not so sure.