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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by Chris2048 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @12:22PM (#13707173)
> The alt-right's embrace of racism and sexism

The scope of these terms has been expanded significantly. I no longer care what anyone considers to be 'racist' or 'sexist'; I care what their values are, and if I consider them of worth.

EDIT: 'alt-right' may have changed too. Some seem to thing it just means 'alternate right', others 'code-name for racists'.

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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by StreamBright on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @12:45PM (#13707391)
"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today."

Thomas Sowell

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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by kenjackson on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:12PM (#13709204)
That doesn't make any sense. Racists inherently judge with a different standard.
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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by philsnow on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @05:25PM (#13709809)
I'm not familiar with either the quote or the person quoted, but I'm guessing it's an assertion that people who believe

> that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards

don't buy into affirmative action, and are labeled as racists by people who do.

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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by Chris2048 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @05:44PM (#13709966)
Maybe, but more likely concepts like "it's not possible (or important) for a black american to be racist", or "when a white person makes fun of a black, they are racist, when a black person makes fun of a while they are being ironic".
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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by Chris2048 on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @05:41PM (#13709943)
Different to what? Racists hold people of different races to different standards, and so do the people who call others racist for refusing to do this.
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