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Re:How Silicon Valley Treats a Trump Backer: Peter Thiel by DVassallo on Thursday October 20, 2016 @02:44AM (#12750176)
> "We can't create a culture that says it cares about diversity and then excludes almost half the country because they back a political candidate."

In March 1933 half of Germany voted for Hitler's party[1]. Would Zuckerberg's statement stand in that scenario as well?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March...

Re:How Silicon Valley Treats a Trump Backer: Peter Thiel by stickfigure on Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:13AM (#12750519)
Not quite half - 43.9% in 1933, and that election is not considered by historians to have been anything like free and fair. In the prior two elections, the Nazi share of the vote had decreased from 37.3% to 33.1%, indicating that Nazi popularity was on the decline. If it weren't for undemocratic backroom scheming that handed the chancellorship to Hitler, there might never have been a Third Reich.

So yeah, I think Zuckerberg's statement stands up well even in the face of 20th century history.

Re:How Silicon Valley Treats a Trump Backer: Peter Thiel by dingaling on Thursday October 20, 2016 @07:04AM (#12751279)
In 2003, 15000 Baath Party members were dismissed from their posts in Iraqi government ministries because of their 'evil' political affiliation.

Within two years 9000 of them had been rehired to try to repair the damage that their dismissal had caused.

Sometimes one just has to be pragmatic and put subjective opinion aside. Such tolerance doesn't equate to approval.

Re:How Silicon Valley Treats a Trump Backer: Peter Thiel by DVassallo on Thursday October 20, 2016 @02:05PM (#12754657)
I don't think there's any ambiguity that Peter Thiel, the subject of this article, is approving Trump, and not just tolerating him.
Re:How Silicon Valley Treats a Trump Backer: Peter Thiel by flukus on Thursday October 20, 2016 @03:01AM (#12750226)
Do you think firing nazis from their jobs would have worked? That would have been a bloodbath (more so). Even if it wasn't it would have played to the persecution complex.