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Meanwhile: “DOGE chief Musk asks X users if staffer who quit over racist tweets should be rehired” (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/elon-musk-doge-racist-treasu
by archagon 2y ago
Meanwhile: “DOGE chief Musk asks X users if staffer who quit over racist tweets should be rehired” (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/elon-musk-doge-racist-treasury-x-staff.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/elon-musk-doge-racist-treasu...)
This is the guy who said things like:
“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”
“Normalize Indian hate.”
“I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask.”
Why is YC normalizing what looks a whole lot like neo-nazism with a smug grin?
- steveBK123 2y agoMusk has gone completely mask off, and many in VC land have followed. It's one thing to think the "woke" went too far or argue over some fringe issues.. its another to think any of the above statements are acceptable, make nazi salutes on stage (and then troll tweet about it), etc.
- lostmsu 2y agoHm, do you want to deny anyone with this opinion any opportunity for employment?
- archagon 2y agoMaybe they should go do some of those jobs that immigrants are "stealing from Americans."
- steveBK123 2y agoThey can go work for some private sector racist, not the US government.
- hnyoujoke 2y agoI got a leaked preprint of his talk. He's going to demo how you can use large language models and bot farms to manufacture consent on a media and communication platform you control.
- whalesalad 2y agoYC lost its hacker ethos over ten years ago. That ship has sailed, unfortunately.
- Gud 2y agoWhere did he say those things? Links?
- computerthings 2y agoOn his Twitter account. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93q625y04wo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93q625y04wo
- awnird 2y agoGarry Tan and Paul Graham are all in on MAGA, and that's reflected in the policies on this very website.