Mark Zuckerburg comments on Peter Thiel controversy regarding Trump donation

Some surprising wisdom in this private note: If everyone looks different but thinks the same, that's not real diversity.

When people say &quot;half the country supports X candidate&quot; I like to point out polls only count registered voters who are likely to vote, which is closer to half the eligible voting population (which of course doesn&#x27;t include any of the non-adults).<p>It&#x27;s more like each candidate has support from less than a quarter of the population and most people don&#x27;t support either.<p>Somehow I find that reassuring.

Zuckerburg should elevate the conversation. Accusations are not proven leave the sexism out. Knowing Hillary&#x27;s Campaign staffs comments about Catholics, gays, blacks, hispanics and etc. demeaning comments provides a springboard for free and fair political speech. Zuckerburg is proving himself to be low minded and poorly educated pertaining to our constitutional rights provided centuries past from high minded genius founding fathers.

I get it that you can&#x27;t fire someone over his support of a political candidate but what about his public views on rape and racism: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2016&#x2F;oct&#x2F;21&#x2F;peter-thiel-support-donald-trump-date-rape-book?CMP=share_btn_tw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;2016&#x2F;oct&#x2F;21&#x2F;peter-thi...</a>

It seems to be a typical postmodern viewpoint that every idea is equally valid. But even if you&#x27;re not &quot;racist, sexist, xenophobic, or accepting sexual assault&quot;, if you, as a reasonably minded individual, back Trump, you&#x27;re condoning all of these things, which is really just as bad ... Not everybody&#x27;s idea is valid!

The last paragraph introduces a question interesting to me.<p>Is opening up communication channels responsible for social conflict?<p>Is Mark right or wrong in his last paragraph.<p>I&#x27;ve always assumed he was wrong but the premise should be examined explicitly.<p>Naturally I don&#x27;t claim that the radio or newspapers <i>invented</i> the social conflict. I am saying they could be responsible for the actual incidence of conflict itself.<p>If you picture each person as a collection of memes, then;<p>&gt; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. - H.P Lovecraft<p>The potential for conflict in the individual is not resolved with conflict for the most part. We do know the more intellectual among us tend to be more neurotic, perhaps another hint at the essential lovecraftian truth.<p>That means barefaced conflict is only possible when an individual meets another and communicates. It is then latent contradictions become evident.<p>Far from the notion that communication acts as a meditator and leads to peace, the truth might be the opposite.<p>tldr; if we don&#x27;t talk to each other, everything will be fine!

Zuckerberg should look at his own aegist, chauvinist company and get rid of discrimination in his own company before critiquing others who he feels are not imbracing diversity.

What is it with you US-people and 2 candidates?!?!<p>I mean this is ridiculous.<p>He&#x27;s all like &quot;oh don&#x27;t hate on Thiel just because he supports Trump. Half of the US does it so it&#x27;s a valid opinion&quot;<p>Why not support other republicans who aren&#x27;t chauvinists?<p>They talk like &quot;Oh we just have Trump and Hilary and Hilary is corrupt, so what should we do? Vote Trump of cause!&quot;<p>I mean if you&#x27;re a chauvinist and like what Trumps says, just vote for him, it&#x27;s your right to do so. But talking about diversity and then supporting people against it is bullshit.<p>&quot;Hey yes, you can work at FB, we think you got mad skills, but we will invest the money you make in people who make your life worse!&quot;

What he writes sounds reasonable. Although I&#x27;m equally disturbed by Facebook News Memes like Tomi Lahren: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;deadspin.com&#x2F;tomi-lahren-is-a-facebook-meme-come-to-life-and-america-1786062538" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;deadspin.com&#x2F;tomi-lahren-is-a-facebook-meme-come-to-l...</a>

Is there a link to this? That photo doesn&#x27;t appear to match Zuck&#x27;s profile.

If Mark is unsure about what makes Peter throw his weight behind Trump, why not ask him?<p>Not that he is answerable but if he has good reasons I&#x27;m sure he wouldn&#x27;t mind talking about them.

Sexual assault is not an idea. How about having the courage to stand up against a major player from your circle because it&#x27;s the right thing to do.

IF YOU CARED ABOUT DIVERSITY...YOU WOULDN&#x27;T &quot;PUNISH&quot; FB&#x27;ERS BY IMPEDING THEIR FIGHT TO LIKE OR DISLIKE A POST..OR CLAIM LANGUAGE IS OFFENSIVE AND YET PRINTING &quot;MADONNA PROMISES BLOW JOBS!&quot;..OR OBUMMER ROCKS A WOODY ON FB...ETC ETC....YOU&#x27;RE A HYPOCRITE!!!

Trump is an embarrassment for United States of America but we can&#x27;t impose our judgment those who want to support and vote for him. Nor do I agree with Mark Zuckerberg that half the country Support this man.

I agree 100%. Haters gonna hate.