[archagon]

Meanwhile: “DOGE chief Musk asks X users if staffer who quit over racist tweets should be rehired” (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/07/elon-musk-doge-racist-treasu...)

This is the guy who said things like:

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”

“Normalize Indian hate.”

“I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask.”

Why is YC normalizing what looks a whole lot like neo-nazism with a smug grin?

[steveBK123]

Musk has gone completely mask off, and many in VC land have followed.

It's one thing to think the "woke" went too far or argue over some fringe issues.. its another to think any of the above statements are acceptable, make nazi salutes on stage (and then troll tweet about it), etc.

[lostmsu]

Hm, do you want to deny anyone with this opinion any opportunity for employment?

[archagon]

Maybe they should go do some of those jobs that immigrants are "stealing from Americans."

[steveBK123]

They can go work for some private sector racist, not the US government.

[awnird]

Garry Tan and Paul Graham are all in on MAGA, and that's reflected in the policies on this very website.

[Gud]

Where did he say those things? Links?

[computerthings]

On his Twitter account.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93q625y04wo

[whalesalad]

YC lost its hacker ethos over ten years ago. That ship has sailed, unfortunately.

[hnyoujoke]

I got a leaked preprint of his talk.

He's going to demo how you can use large language models and bot farms to manufacture consent on a media and communication platform you control.