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Oculus' Palmer Luckey funds white-supremacist/misogynistic/anti-lgbt harassment group

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SciencePilot

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It Facebook doesn't drop him maybe they will be accused of defending a white-supremacist, and I'm sure they don't want that to be associated with their brand. So if they don't drop him they're making a bet that the story won't blow up further. It'll be interesting to see what they do and what happens.
 
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Inferno313

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Aske said:
To have more empathy for one group of criminals versus another? You don't think Nazis are worse than crack addicts?
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This is disingenuous. The difference between a crack addict and a nazi is not the same as the difference between two murderers... or two sets of racists.
 
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Kinyou

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Dartastic said:
I dunno, it seems like the record is pretty freaking clear already.
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Unless I'm mistaken we don't have confirmation that's he's the reddit guy aside from apparently himself telling the daily beast that he's that guy. I guess he'll challenge that narrative.

I can't imagine the daily beast would write this without proper evidence to back it up though.
 
DryvBy

DryvBy

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Kinyou said:
Unless I'm mistaken we don't have confirmation that's he's the reddit guy aside from apparently himself telling the daily beast that he's that guy. I guess he'll challenge that narrative.

I can't imagine the daily beast would write this without proper evidence to back it up though.
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Milo already confirmed it was him.
 
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Pathfinder

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chadskin said:
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A truly inspirational man.
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Well, that cements my decision to not buy an Oculus.

Thanks for saving me some money, Palmer.
 
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Nzyme32

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Dartastic said:
I dunno, it seems like the record is pretty freaking clear already.
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Sephzilla said:
in before "my comments were misinterpreted" or something BS
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Yeah, his position is pretty clear but I assume he will find a way to butter it up, much like the hardware drm measures that happened with Rift that resulted in Palmer giving responses when it happened and after they did the u-turn with contradictions all over the place.
 
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Aske

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jim-jam bongs said:
This analogy is not as clever as you think it is, mate
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It's not supposed to be clever, it's supposed to accurately represent my position.

Inferno313 said:
This is disingenuous. The difference between a crack addict and a nazi is not the same as the difference between two murderers... or two sets of racists.
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Then forget the example. I'm not arguing that anyone should make the same distinction as me. I think it's worse they Luckey supports Trump as opposed to supporting trolls, as Luckey's initial statement indicated. I am much more disgusted by the former than the latter; though I am disgusted by both.
 
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ronin_cse

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Kinyou said:
Ah OK. Missed that. Already punches a hole in him saying that it's a Clinton smear piece then.
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No the cnet editor on twitter said Luckey will set the record straight on his Clinton smear reports, not that this is a Clinton smear campaign against Luckey or anything like that
 
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Aske

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Giftofgab24 said:
Yeah....not all crack addicts are criminals. They suffer from a disease.
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I meant to imply that the crack addiction was the reason behind commiting a violent crime, for which I have more empathy than commiting the same violent crime because the perpetrator hates the victim's race.

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To be completely clear, I find racism as a byproduct of irreverency less detestable than racism stemming from a philosophy of racial supremacy. Both are unacceptable; but I consider the latter significantly worse than the former. Luckey is clearly the latter, and now that this is confirmed, I am more disgusted by him than I was when he attempted to pass himself off as the former.
 
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jstripes

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SciencePilot said:
It Facebook doesn't drop him maybe they will be accused of defending a white-supremacist, and I'm sure they don't want that to be associated with their brand. So if they don't drop him they're making a bet that the story won't blow up further. It'll be interesting to see what they do and what happens.
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Facebook is gonna have people complain no matter what they do. Just look at what Mozilla had to go through. But they're likely not going to side with the alt-right.
 
IlGialloMondadori

IlGialloMondadori

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There are two tweets there. The latest is that FB and Oculus will issue a statement, another one minute earlier about the Hillary smear campaign and Lucky clearing things up.
The former sounds like firing. I hope it's the former.
 
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Ozigizo

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Yeah, the_Donald is starting to push hard on the narrative that she wad harassed off of Twitter. No proof has been posted, though.
 
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