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They're racists in the most literal sense. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannon-flattered-and-coaxed-trump-on-policies-key-to-the-alt-right/2016/

They're racists in the most literal sense. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannon-flattered-and-coaxed-trump-on-policies-key-to-the-alt-right/2016/11/15/53c66362-ab69-11e6-a31b-4b6397e625d0_story.html?utm_term=.718f0968b170 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannon-flattered... “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” Bannon said, not finishing the sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

Karishma1234 8y ago
That quote pretty much sums it up. Under Obama democrats abandoned their stance on individual freedom and instead turned to extreme leftism. Conservatives as a response abandoned their fiscal and economic conservatism and instead turned to identity politics of old white people. American society is deeply divided at the moment and Indians and Chinese immigrants and the collateral damage.
- ebikelaw 8y ago
  I invite you to describe any Obama-era policy that can be called “extreme leftist”.
  - dang 8y ago
    Please don't take HN further into political flamewar. There's no way this can end well. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pavlov 8y ago
  > Under Obama democrats abandoned their stance on individual freedom and instead turned to extreme leftism If the United States in 2016 represented extreme leftism, what do you call e.g. Mao's China in 1968?
  - blunte 8y ago
    Given the attitudes of the current GOP, George W. Bush would not have even made the ticket and Reagan would be considered a Hollywood elite leftist. Fortunately this cancer is so exceptionally aggressive that it will kill the host very quickly.
    - stevenwoo 8y ago
      I agree with your first sentence and think your second sentence is incredibly optimistic. There are extremely few GOP candidates running in 2018 midterms who have explicitly run away from Trump - the incumbents that were outspoken against Trump decided not to run again or cannot run again.
      - blunte 8y ago
        When the oldest two generations die off, the center-left will become the right, and the left will become the moderate-left.
  - dang 8y ago
    Please don't add ideological flamebait to partisan flamewar. All this is off topic here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 8y ago
  Could you please stop posting political-ideological-national-racial-battle-style comments to HN? That is the opposite of what this site is for, and you've been doing it a lot lately. I appreciate that you have remained personally civil, and am sure that you don't intend to harm the community, but that's the effect it has in practice. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- yardie 8y ago
  > abandoned their stance on individual freedom and instead turned to extreme leftism. Please go on I wasn't aware individual freedom was a right-wing ideology.
- spamizbad 8y ago
  How was Obama's socially center-left, economic center-right governance "extreme leftism"?
  - dang 8y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181811
anoncoward111 8y ago
Nice, ugh, that is a brutally accurate and disgusting quote. It shows how the current government really feel. It reminds me of when a minority family moves to a small, mostly white, rural town. The people there all start saying, "oh, well you see, we're all good Christians here. you see, we dont want to change our traditions". It's their euphemistic, misguided, indirect way of saying "we don't want non-whites here".
- threatofrain 8y ago
  Churches themselves are divided the same way, rich and poor churches, white and black churches. The rich churches are pro-science bastions of professionalism with engineers, lawyers, and doctors.
yardie 8y ago
I can't say this enough. And when anyone tries to tell (mostly white) America this there is always another interpretation.
ghufran_syed 8y ago
I am a south-Asian immigrant in Silicon Valley and I don’t think that’s a racist statement
- d1zzy 8y ago
  Then make us understand how can one pick up on the country (and a whole continent) of origin of SV founders and not be racist, what is the non-racist reason to consider the country of origin distinction relevant in a discussion about SV founders? And why mention the bit about "civic society", what has that anything to do with the country/continent of origin?
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Karishma1234 8y ago

That quote pretty much sums it up. Under Obama democrats abandoned their stance on individual freedom and instead turned to extreme leftism. Conservatives as a response abandoned their fiscal and economic conservatism and instead turned to identity politics of old white people. American society is deeply divided at the moment and Indians and Chinese immigrants and the collateral damage.

ebikelaw 8y ago
I invite you to describe any Obama-era policy that can be called “extreme leftist”.
- dang 8y ago
  Please don't take HN further into political flamewar. There's no way this can end well. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
pavlov 8y ago
> Under Obama democrats abandoned their stance on individual freedom and instead turned to extreme leftism If the United States in 2016 represented extreme leftism, what do you call e.g. Mao's China in 1968?
- blunte 8y ago
  Given the attitudes of the current GOP, George W. Bush would not have even made the ticket and Reagan would be considered a Hollywood elite leftist. Fortunately this cancer is so exceptionally aggressive that it will kill the host very quickly.
  - stevenwoo 8y ago
    I agree with your first sentence and think your second sentence is incredibly optimistic. There are extremely few GOP candidates running in 2018 midterms who have explicitly run away from Trump - the incumbents that were outspoken against Trump decided not to run again or cannot run again.
    - blunte 8y ago
      When the oldest two generations die off, the center-left will become the right, and the left will become the moderate-left.
- dang 8y ago
  Please don't add ideological flamebait to partisan flamewar. All this is off topic here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
dang 8y ago
Could you please stop posting political-ideological-national-racial-battle-style comments to HN? That is the opposite of what this site is for, and you've been doing it a lot lately. I appreciate that you have remained personally civil, and am sure that you don't intend to harm the community, but that's the effect it has in practice. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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yardie 8y ago
> abandoned their stance on individual freedom and instead turned to extreme leftism. Please go on I wasn't aware individual freedom was a right-wing ideology.
spamizbad 8y ago
How was Obama's socially center-left, economic center-right governance "extreme leftism"?
- dang 8y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181811

anoncoward111 8y ago

Nice, ugh, that is a brutally accurate and disgusting quote. It shows how the current government really feel. It reminds me of when a minority family moves to a small, mostly white, rural town. The people there all start saying, "oh, well you see, we're all good Christians here. you see, we dont want to change our traditions". It's their euphemistic, misguided, indirect way of saying "we don't want non-whites here".

threatofrain 8y ago
Churches themselves are divided the same way, rich and poor churches, white and black churches. The rich churches are pro-science bastions of professionalism with engineers, lawyers, and doctors.

yardie 8y ago

I can't say this enough. And when anyone tries to tell (mostly white) America this there is always another interpretation.

ghufran_syed 8y ago

I am a south-Asian immigrant in Silicon Valley and I don’t think that’s a racist statement

d1zzy 8y ago
Then make us understand how can one pick up on the country (and a whole continent) of origin of SV founders and not be racist, what is the non-racist reason to consider the country of origin distinction relevant in a discussion about SV founders? And why mention the bit about "civic society", what has that anything to do with the country/continent of origin?
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