Look what happened to Peter Thiel who chose to support Trump. Someone who argues *against* net neutrality. Someone who might support H1B restrictions. Hard to be public counter positions right now. (Not saying I have any of these...)
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The backlash against Thiel at Y Combinator didn’t just affect Thiel. When I was in YC I talked to several people terrified of even implying political dissent, especially ahead of raising money. Skewering rich people can’t be OK just because they’re still rich.
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You genuinely think Thiel was criticized for being rich?
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If Thiel has paid a price for his beliefs, what is it? How has his economic, political or cultural power declined since he began destroying media outlets or supporting a president who’s called for the State execution of innocent American kids?
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OK I hate to do this because, again, I despise Trump, but for the sake of discussion what would happen if partners were removed from YC for supporting Obama because he killed innocent Syrians in drone strikes?
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You need to realize that’s only the very public examples of that happening at the top, and the silencing happens much, much lower on the totem pole. You learn your career can be affected so you should just shut your damn mouth
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That’s why the implication that, “well who cares he’s still rich” is odd to me
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People keep talking about Thiel paying a price; it’s not true. For example, the women who were assaulted by Trump paid a price; This is a useful comparison to measure Thiel against.
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Thiel paid a price, it’s just not one that you’re taking into consideration because he’s still rich. The point I’m making is that doesn’t only affect Thiel, and that’s only a public example of something happening more with subtlety to people not in power
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So you’re saying somebody whose kid died for no reason in Iraq must pay for a Dropbox account? Like, I genuinely don’t understand what the implication is here. No consumer boycotts ever?
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The social backlash against people that disagree on even reasonable things is so intense it just isn’t worth speaking up. I’d feel 10x more comfortable sharing my liberal viewpoints in the deeply red town I’m from than sharing *any* conservative viewpoint in SF
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You ever wonder why you don’t get called a terrorist and told that your child is an abomination by those folks? Because that’s what people have said, to my face. (You know why.)
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I’m from a deeply red town, too; when the first black family got a cross burned on its yard, I felt that was actually worse than mean tweets.
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