This will prove to be unpopular. TRUMP
David > On Oct 21, 2016, at 12:47 PM, Chris Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > > I share his confusion and agree with this statement of his: > > I don’t understand how 43% of the country supports Trump. But I’d like to > find out, because we have to include everyone in our path forward. If our > best ideas are to stop talking to or fire anyone who disagrees with us, we’ll > be facing this whole situation again in 2020. > > <> > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Centroids > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 11:19 AM > To: Centroids Discussions <[email protected]> > Subject: [RC] Hate Trump, Love Trumpers > > He's taking a lot of heat from liberals over this. Good for him. > > > >> Some have said that YC should terminate its relationship with Peter over >> this. But as repugnant as Trump is to many of us, we are not going to fire >> someone over his or her support of a political candidate > > > The 2016 Election > http://blog.samaltman.com/the-2016-election > <http://blog.samaltman.com/the-2016-election> > (via Instapaper <http://www.instapaper.com/>) > > I am endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. I've never endorsed a > presidential candidate before, but I'm making an exception this year, because > this election is exceptional. Donald Trump represents an unprecedented threat > to America, and voting for Hillary is the best way to defend our country > against it. > > A Trump presidency would be a disaster for the American economy. He has no > real plan to restore economic growth. > > His racist, isolationist policies would divide our country, and American > innovation would suffer. But the man himself is even more dangerous than his > policies. He's erratic, abusive, and prone to fits of rage. > > He represents a real threat to the safety of women, minorities, and > immigrants, and I believe this reason alone more than disqualifies him to be > president. My godson’s father, who is Mexican by birth and fears being > deported or worse, is who convinced me to spend a significant amount of time > working on this election at the beginning of this year, when Trump still > seemed like an unlikely possibility. > > Trump shows little respect for the Constitution, the Republic, or for human > decency, and I fear for national security if he becomes our president. > > The only two vocal Trump supporters I am close to are Peter Thiel and my > grandma. Peter is a part-time partner at YC, meaning he spends a small > fraction of his time advising YC companies, does not have a vote in how YC is > run, and in his case waives the equity part-time partners normally get. > > This has been a strain on my relationship with both of them—I think they are > completely wrong in their support of this man. Though I don’t ascribe all > positions of a politician to his or her supporters, I do not understand how > one continues to support someone who brags about sexual assault, calls for a > total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the US, or any number or > other disqualifying statements. I will continue to try to change both of > their minds. > > Some have said that YC should terminate its relationship with Peter over > this. But as repugnant as Trump is to many of us, we are not going to fire > someone over his or her support of a political candidate. As far as we know, > that would be unprecedented for supporting a major party nominee, and a > dangerous path to start down (of course, if Peter said some of the things > Trump says himself, he would no longer be part of Y Combinator). > > The way we got into a situation with Trump as a major party nominee in the > first place was by not talking to people who are very different than we are. > The polarization of the country into two parallel political realities is not > good for any of us. We should talk to each other more, not less. > > We should all feel a duty to try to understand the roughly half of the > country that thinks we are severely misguided. I don’t understand how 43% of > the country supports Trump. But I’d like to find out, because we have to > include everyone in our path forward. If our best ideas are to stop talking > to or fire anyone who disagrees with us, we’ll be facing this whole situation > again in 2020. > > That kind of diversity is painful and unpopular, but it is critical to health > of a democratic and pluralistic society. We shouldn’t start purging people > for supporting the wrong political candidate. That's not how things are done > in this country. > > Like this post? > 4449 responses > A posthaven user upvoted this post. > Scott Barbian upvoted this post. > 4447 visitors upvoted this post. > > > Sent from my iPhone > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > <http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism> > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > <http://radicalcentrism.org/> > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > <http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism> > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > <http://radicalcentrism.org/> > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. 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