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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by anon1385 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:45AM (#16384902)
The Guardian isn't leftist. It's a centrist/liberal publication. Those are very different things.

(They also publish opinion pieces from other positions/ideologies, but that's a part of the whole liberal free market of ideas thing.)

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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by milankovic on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:30AM (#16385277) 

  The newspaper's reputation as a platform for liberal and 
  left-wing editorial has led to the use of the "Guardian 
  reader" and "Guardianista" as often (but not always) 
  pejorative epithets for those of left-leaning or 
  politically correct tendencies.
Literally taken straight from Wikipedia..
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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by jbooth on Thursday February 15, 2018 @11:38AM (#16385359)
Are those links editorials? No, they're not. They're straight reporting.

Are you disputing the quotations attributed to Thiel in the reporting? No, you don't seem to be.

You asked for examples of toxic viewpoints held by Thiel, someone delivered, and you plugged your fingers in your ears and said "lol facts don't matter". Don't be that guy.

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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by Fins on Thursday February 15, 2018 @12:26PM (#16385775)
It would have helped if somebody actually posted examples of toxic viewpoints held (as in present tense)by Thiel. Nothing like that has been produced so far here.
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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by jbooth on Thursday February 15, 2018 @01:46PM (#16386435)
Quotes from the man's mouth aren't good enough?
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Re:Peter Thiel Parts Ways with Silicon Valley by Fins on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:12PM (#16386641)
30 years old misinterpreted quotes? Not really.

Now, he may well be a white supremacist (although I haven't heard any complaints from his Jewish cofounders, FWIW), but these do not prove it at all.

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