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Backlash as US billionaire and big Dem contributor dismisses Uyghur abuse

2022-01-19

[BBC] Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya is under fire for saying that he - and most Americans - "don't care" about abuses against the Uyghur minority in China.

Mr Palihapitiya, a part-owner of San Francisco's basketball team, made the comments during a podcast discussion of whether President Joe Biden's action on the issue had helped him politically.

The remarks drew social media backlash.

Mr Palihapitiya later admitted that his comments "lacked empathy".

In a statement intended to clarify his stance, he said "important issues deserve important discussions".

"I believe that human rights matter, whether in China, the United States, or elsewhere," he wrote on Twitter.

Posted by:Besoeker

#6 Just yer run o the mill White Supremacist.

Posted by: Rex Mundi 2022-01-19 11:24

#5 The NBA has consistently been on the wrong side of most every issue. If we could only figure out why that might be.

Posted by: Crusader 2022-01-19 10:17

#4 I know, deep-red San Francisco Rethuglican mouth-breathers won't have any fans attending, amirite?

Posted by: Frank G 2022-01-19 08:33

#3 OK, all you heart-on-the-sleeve celebs with season tickets, here's your chance to virtue signal real good now.

I'm not holding my breath...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-19 07:36

#2 This asshole is Exhibit A for what's wrong with SPACs. A flimflam's flimflam man.

Poster child for what the great investor Jim Chanos calls our "Golden Age of Fraud"

Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-19 07:35

#1 Lacked Empathy?

Go to the site and watch the video. He stated exactly what he meant. He made that perfectly clear.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2022-01-19 00:57

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