William Lindsey Jul 14

As Jonathan V. Last says, "understanding this Billionaire Victims Club is one of the keys to understanding our authoritarian moment."

Last focuses on tech billionaire and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen who wants to claim that — get this — he and other men like him have been victims of racial and gender profiling. Victims of DEI and woke.

#TechBros #MarcAndreessen #PoliticsofGrievance #racism #gender #DEI #woke
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/marc-andreesen-and-the-billionaire

Marc Andreessen and the Billionaire Victims Club

The gripes of this bigwig of the tech right don’t stand up to scrutiny.

The Bulwark
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Jul 14

Andreessen was born in Iowa and grew up in Wisconsin, places famous for discrimination against white heterosexual men (NOT!). He has made billions of dollars — as a white heterosexual man.

Yet he wants all of us to believe that white heterosexual men have been disadvantaged, discriminated against, due to DEI.

And he and men of his ilk have a huge megaphone because, did I say, billions?

#TechBros #MarcAndreessen #PoliticsofGrievance #racism #gender #DEI #woke
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

As Adam Gurri says,

"A recent leak of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s group chats has revealed that he’s quite happy to see our university system destroyed if it will keep out foreigners and humiliate the elites who 'actively discriminated against' people like him."

#TechBros #MarcAndreessen #PoliticsofGrievance #racism #gender #DEI #woke
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andreessen-is-a-traitor/

Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor

It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.

Liberal Currents
Jul 14 at 7:16pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Jul 14

"The messages are at times quite shockingly racist in their content, referencing how 'the combination of DEI and immigration' are 'two forms of discrimination' that 'systematically cut most of the children of the Trump voter base out of any realistic prospect of access to higher education and corporate America.'”

#TechBros #MarcAndreessen #PoliticsofGrievance #racism #gender #DEI #woke
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Show threadThadJul 14
@wdlindsy "They blamed us for Trump, and so we retaliated by supporting Trump" seems like questionable logic to me, but then, I must just not be a genius like Andreessen.
Show threadSimon ZerafaJul 14

@wdlindsy

What a total fucking arsehole he is 🤔🤦‍♂️

Show threadCESJul 14
@wdlindsy I say this as woman that worked in SV for decades. These dudes are pissed 😡 that even though they have gobs of money, no decent person will give them the time of day. They’re particularly pissed that any sane woman won’t touch them with a 10’ pole. Without the money no one would two cents about them or their opinions…and deep down they know it. Pathetic to the core.