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CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth

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Re: CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth

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Post by stephenhuey »

throwaway2048 wrote: post #26
paulie_a wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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No, he wasn't

He’s referring to the idea that Hitler may have been a quarter Jewish. Not sure where this study from 10 years ago ended up:

https://www.history.com/news/study-suggests-adolf-hitler-had...

There were a lot of articles about that and here’s a recent one:

https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/study-suggests-adolf-hitler-was...

Re: CEO of Banjo admitted to being a Neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth

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Post by pjc50 »

3fe9a03ccd14ca5 wrote: post #4

> Patton was charged with — and pled guilty to—acts of juvenile delinquency in connection to the incident Edit: as the getaway driver. Seems like a strange charge to bring up for the incident.

The charges seem comparatively light, even for the adults, for an act of terrorism and conspiracy to murder (although fortunately not succeeding).

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Post by bravoetch »

aeqas wrote: post #14

It's hard to judge someone for doing something stupid at 17 when there's adverse influences around them. But Damien Patton wasn't 17 when he did this- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bgky/banjo-ai-used-secr... That should be illegal. Are there not any laws against this?

Many livelihoods in tech depend on the surveillance economy. There are some laws, but they're not enough. Everyone I know that works for companies like this is able to justify it with their paycheck or the cool project they are working on. Ethics are never a consideration and the law is someone else's problem.

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Post by eropple »

forgot_user1234 wrote: post #24

When reached for comment, Patton wrote: "32 years ago I was a lost, scared, and vulnerable child. I won’t go into detail, but the reasons I left home at such a young age are unfortunately not unique; I suffered abuse in every form. I did terrible things and said despicable and hateful things, including to my own Jewish mother, that today I find indefensibly wrong, and feel extreme remorse for. I have spent most of my…

> But Patton does not mention that, by his own testimony, he continued to socialize with white supremacists while in the Navy. Patton told prosecutors that he gathered with skinheads while stationed in Virginia for training. “I had known some of the Skinheads there from prior rallies in Tennessee and because of not knowing anybody there, I ended up meeting with them and hung out with them for some time,” he said.

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Post by bluthru »

ttaahh wrote: post #40
bobobob420 wrote: post #21

This was so long ago and he hasn’t killed anyone or done any thing of the sort since then. Who cares ? It is up to the system to deal with him

"the system" has given life sentences to people for marijuana charges while people who literally helped a hate group shoot at minorities go free. The system is broken, and i assure you, plenty of people care

>"the system" has given life sentences to people for marijuana charges

No it hasn't.

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