It's potentially worth noting that both those statements should be past tense, not present. My understanding of the apartheid thing was he said something in co

It's potentially worth noting that both those statements should be past tense, not present. My understanding of the apartheid thing was he said something in college that someone else heard and remembered for many years. I think that 1. People say stupid stuff in college, and 2. Thiel could have easily said something in an exploratory philosophical kind of way without fully believing it. He has denied the apartheid comments and apologized for the rape comments. I'm not saying this should get him off scot-free, it just seemed important to note that he doesn't currently say these things, publicly at least.