I don’t know whether he ever said anything that was carelessly blatantly racist: I haven’t been hanging on his every word, and he’s somewhat cautious and not an

I don’t know whether he ever said anything that was carelessly blatantly racist: I haven’t been hanging on his every word, and he’s somewhat cautious and not an idiot. But he keeps dumping millions of dollars to support nativist white supremacist liars like Kris Kobach and Donald Trump. In this election cycle his biggest beneficiaries are all-in on building a border wall with Mexico and stripping rights from Latin American immigrants, preventing immigration from Muslim-majority nations, harassing Chinese living in the US, violating the sovereignty of indigenous American tribes, preventing or rendering useless the votes of Latinos and African Americans, etc. I don’t know if Thiel is personally a racist. I think it’s more likely he’s just an opportunist angling for personal profit who sees supporting racists and racist policies as a winning bet. A web search turns up https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/what-is-it-about-peter-thiel https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/wh... – that probably does a better job than anyone will manage in a tiny comment here of probing Thiel’s motives.