Which means that actually shitty things get lumped in with things that are just an unpopular opinion.
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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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I’m talking about Thiel as an avatar if this — he gets more money, more power, more access, and you think rational people say “I’m afraid that fate will befall me!”?
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The only way you can remotely assert Thiel paid a price is if you think either no rich person should ever have to hear critique, or if a billionaire possibly gaining wealth at a slightly slower rate is “paying a price”.
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Not to be pedantic, but gaining wealth at a lower rate is, by definition, paying a price. It’s just a price you don’t consider because he’s rich and who cares what happens to rich people
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But it is important in this instance because it’s a price Thiel can afford to pay and a price that others cannot. So yes silencing those you disagree with can be dangerous, and not just for rich people
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That would be fine? Holding people accountable is good. Telling them when they support something immoral is good.
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To be clear, you think McCarthyism is good?
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And to be clear, you would be OK with YC partners being removed because they supported Clinton?
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You think Trump and Clinton are morally equivalent?
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