Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley

Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by anon1385 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:19AM (#16384661)

Sure, it's second hand information, and the author may have had reasons to play up Thiel's dedication to the cause. But still, when white nationalists are calling him "fully enlightened" and having meetings with him it certainly suggests at best a willingness to work with an assist white nationalists to achieve his aims, which is bad enough.

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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by wrren on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:35AM (#16384823)

Is Milo a white nationalist? I always thought he was just the Breitbart court jester. In any case, I don't agree with just discarding nuance in these discussions; "fully enlightened" could mean anything from his libertarianism to his support of Trump as a candidate.

Unless Thiel, or anyone else really, comes out with some statement on the superiority of whites or the need to get rid of non-whites, let's desist from rushing to slap these labels on them.

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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by anon1385 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:40AM (#16384862)

>Is Milo a white nationalist?

Yes

>his support of Trump as a candidate.

Unlikely, since he was public about that all along so it's not something that was a secret.

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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by Fins on Thursday February 15, 2018 @12:42PM (#16385915)

If Milo can be a white nationalist, then anyone can be a white nationalist.

Maybe it's a good thing, shows how ridiculous the idea is?

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