We work for Google. Our employer shouldn't be in the business of war

Re:We work for Google. Our employer shouldn't be in the busi... by vixen99 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:47AM (#16764837)

And let's not forget people like William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Kennedy (JFK's father), Charles Lindbergh, John Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon (head of Alcoa, banker, and Secretary of Treasury), DuPont, General Motors, Standard Oil (now Exxon), Ford, ITT, Allen Dulles (later head of the CIA), Prescott Bush, National City Bank, and General Electric.

http://www.rationalrevolution.net/war/american_supporters_of...

And then there's IBM whose Hollerith card system so effectively allowed the Nazis to document Jews. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/bl...

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Re:We work for Google. Our employer shouldn't be in the busi... by coldtea on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:34PM (#16766406)

All of those are not examples of "pacifism". All those are just people who were in favor of the Nazi Germany as a model of governance and/or profiteering from it.

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