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Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack

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Re: Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack

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Post by jonstokes »

EGreg wrote: post #83

To all of you moralizing how could the Uber CEO say the wrong word about the horrific Kashoggi murder... look in the mirror for a second. I find it weird that when it comes to Saudi Arabia the vast majority of Americans seem to only care about Kashoggi and when to comes to Libya Americans seem to care only about four Benghazi Embassy workers. It occupies 99% of the outrage space. So much outrage and ink spilled, Beng…

I don't know who this "we" is you're talking about. Many of us are outraged over Saudi atrocities going all the way back to 9/11.

Re: Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack

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Post by saiya-jin »

EGreg wrote: post #83

To all of you moralizing how could the Uber CEO say the wrong word about the horrific Kashoggi murder... look in the mirror for a second. I find it weird that when it comes to Saudi Arabia the vast majority of Americans seem to only care about Kashoggi and when to comes to Libya Americans seem to care only about four Benghazi Embassy workers. It occupies 99% of the outrage space. So much outrage and ink spilled, Beng…

Well, people generally care more about death of an old neighbor compared to death of 1000 children half around the globe. Call it tribalism, call it stupid and shortsighted (I would use both), but we are who we are...

Now how to change this is a gazillion $$ question. It seems that major media are actually working against this and prefer stirring up nonsense rather than educating crowds. Because it sells much better, and that's because we are who we are...

Re: Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack

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Post by devdas »

HeXetic wrote: post #4

A prototype self-driving car runs over a person due to negligence on the part of the test operator who was supposed to prevent it and failures on the part of the team who created the vehicle. It was not negligence or failures that sent killers to an embassy before Mr. Kashoggi was scheduled to arrive, strangled him, cut him up into pieces, sent out a body double as a distraction, disposed of the evidence, and lied ab…

The mistake in both cases was getting caught.

Re: Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack

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Post by VectorLock »

deegles wrote: post #46
Zenbit_UX wrote: post #21

Wow, just to restate this conversation in a different way: the ceo of a major company would rather remind the world of the time their car _killed_ someone then condemn a murder by one of his investors. Good on the journalist for asking tough questions and not letting him weasel out.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." I feel that quote describes a lot of the current issues in Silicon Valley.

In Silicon Valley someone would probably say "It is problematic to get a contributor to internalize something when his compensation depends on him considering it a corner-case."

Re: Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack

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Post by bogomipz »

EGreg wrote: post #83

To all of you moralizing how could the Uber CEO say the wrong word about the horrific Kashoggi murder... look in the mirror for a second. I find it weird that when it comes to Saudi Arabia the vast majority of Americans seem to only care about Kashoggi and when to comes to Libya Americans seem to care only about four Benghazi Embassy workers. It occupies 99% of the outrage space. So much outrage and ink spilled, Beng…

>"I find it weird that when it comes to Saudi Arabia the vast majority of Americans seem to only care about Kashoggi and when to comes to Libya Americans seem to care only about four Benghazi Embassy workers. It occupies 99% of the outrage space."

The majority of the Americans I know care about human rights, gender equality, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and democracy. The macabre and brazen murder of Kashoggi intersects with more than a couple of those concerns. The people responsible intersect with all of those concerns. There is not shortage or reason's to be outraged.

Your inclusion of Bhengazi here is truly absurd.

Re: Uber CEO calls Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake,” scrambles to backtrack

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Post by EGreg »

bogomipz wrote: post #99
EGreg wrote: post #83

To all of you moralizing how could the Uber CEO say the wrong word about the horrific Kashoggi murder... look in the mirror for a second. I find it weird that when it comes to Saudi Arabia the vast majority of Americans seem to only care about Kashoggi and when to comes to Libya Americans seem to care only about four Benghazi Embassy workers. It occupies 99% of the outrage space. So much outrage and ink spilled, Beng…

>"I find it weird that when it comes to Saudi Arabia the vast majority of Americans seem to only care about Kashoggi and when to comes to Libya Americans seem to care only about four Benghazi Embassy workers. It occupies 99% of the outrage space." The majority of the Americans I know care about human rights, gender equality, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and democracy. The macabre and brazen murder of…

Nothing absurd about it. Benghazi is an even more egregious example of the phenomenon I mentioned.

The phenomenon is the amount of outrage at what happens to four Americans while at the same time hardly any coverage of the MILLIONS of non-Americans who have to live and face atrocities in the failed state of Libya we helped destroy. That’s the phenomenon, Kashoggi is just another example.

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