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Warriors part-owner and venture capitalist dismisses Uyghur Muslims' rights abuses
Fox Business News ^ | 1/17/2022 | By Ryan Gaydos

Posted on 01/17/2022 11:12:28 AM PST by NohSpinZone

Chamath Palihapitiya, a part-owner and director of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors and the venture capitalist founder and CEO of Social Capital, offered the "very hard ugly truth" about China’s human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in a podcast interview.

Palihapitiya appeared on the "All-In Podcast" on Saturday. He made his remarks about Uyghur Muslims after his co-host Jason Calacanis praised President Biden for his decision to ban the import of goods made through forced Uyghur labor.

"Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, OK? You bring it up because you really care and I think it’s nice that you care. The rest of us don’t care. I’m just telling you a very hard, ugly truth. Of all the things that I care about, yes, it is below my line. Of all the things that I care about, it is below my line," Palihapitiya said.

Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and managing partner for Social+Capital Partnership, speaks during a Bloomberg West Television interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

When co-host David Sacks said it’s just not top of mind for most people, Palihapitiya pushed back.

"That’s not caring. … I care about the fact that our economy can turn on a dime if China invades Taiwan. I care about climate change. I care about America’s crippling and decrepit health care infrastructure. But if you ask me do I care about a segment of a class of people in another country? Not until we can take care of ourselves will I prioritize them over us," Palihapitiya said.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
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To: Wayne07
"Do people here at Free Republic really care about the Uyghurs?"

I care about any humans that are enslaved and exploited - humans are created in the image of God.

I care about the German Jews in 1939, I care about the Armenians slaughtered by the Turks in 1916, I care about the POWs in Andersonville in 1864.

I care about the American Indians, and the poor whites in Appalachia.

I care about the little black babies that are torn limb from limb at Planned Parenthood facilities.

The things that break God's heart should break ours, also.

21 posted on 01/17/2022 11:57:02 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: NohSpinZone

That’s fine because I don’t care about him, the Golden State Warriors or the NBA.

Well, I take that back. I care enough to say...

I hope they all FAIL.


22 posted on 01/17/2022 11:59:57 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: NohSpinZone

hinduism at work.


23 posted on 01/17/2022 12:03:19 PM PST by Pelham (Q is short for quack )
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To: NohSpinZone

“Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, OK?”

No, NOT OK. A LOT of us do care.


24 posted on 01/17/2022 12:04:19 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Psalm 73

How many threads have you commented on defending the muslims of Myanmar?


25 posted on 01/17/2022 12:04:44 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: NohSpinZone

Question was a cheap shot.

If he said he cared, then the follow-up is, “Well, then what are you doing about it?”

I’d have liked to heard that question turned back on the one asking it: “What am I doing...? What are YOU doing? You’ve got no grounds to sit there and expect me to give to any cause you’re not.”

Also, don’t miss that he inasmuch said it’s not that the Uighur situation doesn’t bother him, it’s just that it’s not on his list of priorities. It’s entirely humanly possible to care that something is wrong, and not do anything.

Think how much mail you get soliciting money for this or that. You care about all linds of issues, but you’re not pumping out checks right and left. You’ve likely got a handful of places you give to periodically, and the rest go without no matter what.

So, I don’t know why anybody should get their stem wound if some rich guy is handling his charitable giving in exactly the same way.


26 posted on 01/17/2022 12:05:02 PM PST by HKMk23 (The right of freedom of religion shall not be derogated even if the life of the nation is at stake.)
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To: Psalm 73

I was trying to think up a response and you said it for me. What’s wrong with having moral principles ? This is the Realpolitik of globalism and they just don’t care. He said the hidden part out loud. I have the feeling that if he could organ harvest from children in Appalachia and turn a profit he would gladly do it.


27 posted on 01/17/2022 12:05:59 PM PST by freefdny
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To: NohSpinZone

Maybe we should deport this a-hole.


28 posted on 01/17/2022 12:06:53 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: NohSpinZone

The creature Chamath Palihapitiya is below my line. I wouldn’t piss on it if I encountered on fire.


29 posted on 01/17/2022 12:06:57 PM PST by sitetest (Professional patient. No longer mostly dead. Again. It's getting to be a habit.)
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To: NohSpinZone

Well, he comes from a country that has no regard for teh human rights of its minorities, either.


30 posted on 01/17/2022 12:07:41 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Wayne07
Not sure - I don't keep metrics on my Freerepublic postings.

If someone asks a general question on a thread I'm perusing, I normally provide an answer.

Like this.

31 posted on 01/17/2022 12:08:18 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: NohSpinZone

“Dude is a PoS “

Why do you say that?


32 posted on 01/17/2022 12:09:08 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

And playing with himself will really make a difference.


33 posted on 01/17/2022 12:13:21 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: TexasGator

Because he’s a phony leftist and all NBA types are PoSes.


34 posted on 01/17/2022 12:13:40 PM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Ikeon
Its all spitballing by the left, never let a crisis go to waste or make up a crisis if you can’t hitch a ride on one

Or redefine something that's been going on for millions of years as "a crisis." You can make that work if you have total media supremacy.

35 posted on 01/17/2022 12:22:08 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: NohSpinZone
I admire his honesty, and he does have somewhat of a point about prioritizing concern for citizens at home, but his real objective was to bow to his chinese masters.

He can easily redeem himself by talking about the "dangers of climate change", and how badly "people of color" are treated in the US, so we must address that issue first, before being concerned about human-rights abuses in china.

He will pivot as described above, and the media will give him a pass (especially the sports media) because they are all beholden to the ccp.

36 posted on 01/17/2022 12:22:51 PM PST by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: Wayne07

I care about innocent Uyghur children. If it is a radical muslim adult, I don’t.


37 posted on 01/17/2022 12:23:34 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: NohSpinZone

Of all the things that I care about, it is below my line,” Palihapitiya said.

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So, Chamath Palihapitiya cares about playing cards while flying around in his private jet AND the Chinese Communists buying his basketball product but doesn’t give a damn about “people” and “children” being purposefully starved to death by these Chinese Communist bastard savages.


38 posted on 01/17/2022 12:35:39 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Kevmo

Yes, but he went ahead and granted her request, and commended her faith as being greater than he’d seen in Israel.


39 posted on 01/17/2022 12:36:58 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: NohSpinZone

Slavery just doesn’t matter to him. The blacks who “work” for him need to think about that. He may pay his slaves but he still owns them....body AND soul.


40 posted on 01/17/2022 12:55:05 PM PST by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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