25th September 2016, 9:15 PM
On the subject of human suffering, apparently Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, as you probably heard, is apparently a probably racist Trump supporter spending some of his very large amounts of money funding an anti-Hillary right-wing meme group called "Nimble America"... and he was stupid enough to admit this to a press person who asked in an email. Afterwards, after the scandal blew up, he released a statement claiming that he wasn't the person he had just admitted to being, and claimed to be supporting Gary Johnson and not Trump, but both of those things are obvious lies as the past email trail and his and his girlfriends' apparently very alt-right-infused Twitter accounts show -- lots of the usual alt-right racist/etc. stuff on both, apparently. And there is also video of him leaving a Trump rally, too.
So what is Facebook's response? So far, to do nothing. They seem to think that his questionably true statement is all that is needed here, ignoring how this is not some normal political campaign, not with Trump running an explicitly racist and sexist campaign, and how Luckey isn't just a supporter, but someone funding a pretty bad cause.
... So yeah, for anyone who isn't right-wing and bought an Oculus Rift, you helped this guy's cause out, unfortunately. It's too bad that we are seeing this growing young racist right congeal together on the internet, will this nation ever learn? It seems like for every step forwards this nation takes, it takes one back... now, I do think overall we are progressing -- the whole Black Lives Matter movement is proof of this, because actually protesting that situation shows a huge step forward versus just ignoring it as everyone used to do -- but the alt-right's growth shows that unfortunately racism is alive and well even with younger audiences. Again, sad stuff. :bummed:
So what is Facebook's response? So far, to do nothing. They seem to think that his questionably true statement is all that is needed here, ignoring how this is not some normal political campaign, not with Trump running an explicitly racist and sexist campaign, and how Luckey isn't just a supporter, but someone funding a pretty bad cause.
... So yeah, for anyone who isn't right-wing and bought an Oculus Rift, you helped this guy's cause out, unfortunately. It's too bad that we are seeing this growing young racist right congeal together on the internet, will this nation ever learn? It seems like for every step forwards this nation takes, it takes one back... now, I do think overall we are progressing -- the whole Black Lives Matter movement is proof of this, because actually protesting that situation shows a huge step forward versus just ignoring it as everyone used to do -- but the alt-right's growth shows that unfortunately racism is alive and well even with younger audiences. Again, sad stuff. :bummed:
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