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by palmertech 2772 days ago
Palmer here. I am not a racist or sexist, and if you think I was funding "memes with blatant racist/sexist undertones", you probably don't have a good handle on what actually happened.

I funded a single billboard that depicted Hillary Clinton and the text "Too Big to Jail". That is it. This whole racist/sexist/anti-semitic trolling machine narrative was invented from whole cloth. If there were any examples to back it up, you have to imagine someone somewhere would have something to show.

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Where did NimbleRichMan come from?
Okay fair, I rescind my comment saying that you in particular are a racist/sexist (I'm outside my edit time window for my parent comment).

Still however, there seem to be a lot of articles claiming that you funded things other than just the billboard you talk about. Specifically, that you funded troll groups who were making the memes [ https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/23/13025422/palmer-luckey-oc... ].

Is this not true? If it is true that you were funding the shitposting, then surely you don't know the content of all that was funded from your pockets -- memes that very well could have been racist/sexist/in poor taste, right?

The only shitposting that I funded was that single billboard, and calling it shitposting is already a stretch. The narratives about me funding troll groups making memes are totally false.

This is not perfect, but it goes over how people got mislead into thinking otherwise: https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/29/the-timeline-of-the-tweet...

Do you believe the current administration is also deserving of incarneration?