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Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani

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Post by snypher »

reactordev wrote: post #23
nilamo wrote: post #22

There's three names in that title, and none of them are explained in the tiny slice of an article that's free. Am I expected to just know who these random people are?

It’s New Yorker shit There’s a big fuss over a potential mayor of New York that has the right losing their minds. To the point where people are quitting over other peoples opinions. Truly bizarro world stuff.

People should either keep their opinions to themselves or not allow it to be tied to their corporation. If my employer was tied to shitbird comments like Sequoia is now, I'd quit also.

Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani

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Post by dpoloncsak »

inshard wrote: post #38
whycome wrote: post #18

> Maguire, an outspoken and high-profile investor who is close to Elon Musk, wrote on X in July that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.” Balbale complained to other senior partners at the firm, who declined to take action against Maguire, arguing he…

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Jesus lies in John 7:8-10

Jesus violently acts out in Matthew 21:12-13

Slavery is encouraged in Exodus 21:2-11

The crusades were done in the name of Christianity, with the consent of the Church.

The Catholic Church has been involved in numerous sexual assault of minors over the past 50 years alone.

We need to have an honest discussion for those arguing in favor of this faith about their positions on these very segments of their core beliefs.

Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani

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Post by teachrdan »

inshard wrote: post #38
whycome wrote: post #18

> Maguire, an outspoken and high-profile investor who is close to Elon Musk, wrote on X in July that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.” Balbale complained to other senior partners at the firm, who declined to take action against Maguire, arguing he…

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> The Quran contains passages along these lines along with other things like the exploitation of female captives and booty distribution from the spoils of war (including female captives).

Let's please not get started about sexism in major religions. The New Testament is rife with sexism, as even a cursory Google search would have revealed to you. Here's just one example:

Ephesians 5:22–24: "Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church... Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands".

Unless you are willing to scrutinize other religions as you would Islam, then you are being intellectually lazy at best, a bigot at worst.

Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani

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Post by text0404 »

inshard wrote: post #38
whycome wrote: post #18

> Maguire, an outspoken and high-profile investor who is close to Elon Musk, wrote on X in July that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.” Balbale complained to other senior partners at the firm, who declined to take action against Maguire, arguing he…

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Are you really claiming that Christianity and Judiasm have no problematic passages about slavery, women, and war? Where is your handwringing about all the Christian politicians - shouldn't there be a UN resolution denouncing the problematic passages of the Bible? Or are you being willfully ignorant so you can continue to be Islamophobic?

Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani

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Post by inshard »

text0404 wrote: post #54
inshard wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Are you really claiming that Christianity and Judiasm have no problematic passages about slavery, women, and war? Where is your handwringing about all the Christian politicians - shouldn't there be a UN resolution denouncing the problematic passages of the Bible? Or are you being willfully ignorant so you can continue to be Islamophobic?

This tactic is known as “whataboutism”.

Edit: First address the wrong in question. And a phobia is an irrational fear. What’s the sentence for apostasy or blasphemy in this faith? It’s death. That’s a very valid, rational fear.

Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani

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Post by bhouston »

DevX101 wrote: post #39

If I had to classify the current era we're in, it'd be the "Age of the Edgelords".

An edge lord is being deliberately provocative for attention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgelord), but Shaun Maguire instead is just expressing his actual opinion, which is worse in my opinion.

Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani

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Post by text0404 »

inshard wrote: post #55
text0404 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you really claiming that Christianity and Judiasm have no problematic passages about slavery, women, and war? Where is your handwringing about all the Christian politicians - shouldn't there be a UN resolution denouncing the problematic passages of the Bible? Or are you being willfully ignorant so you can continue to be Islamophobic?

This tactic is known as “whataboutism”. Edit: First address the wrong in question. And a phobia is an irrational fear. What’s the sentence for apostasy or blasphemy in this faith? It’s death. That’s a very valid, rational fear.

Uh no it isn't - you literally said

> We need to have an honest discussion for those arguing in favor of this faith about their positions on these very discriminatory segments of their core texts

and then ignored that most politicians in the US are not Muslim. So again I'm asking you - do you actually believe what you wrote (for all religions), or are you singling out Mamdani and his religion because you're a bigot? I'm having your "honest discussion."

Edit: your original response was just the first sentence, and the edit added that you're scared of Muslims. Not sure that's the flex you think it is.

If you want an "honest discussion" then be honest about your reasons for being scared of Islam and not the other religions which dominate US politics. Pointing out your hypocrisy in singling out Muslims isn't "whataboutism" - it's the honest debate you're looking for.

Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani

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Post by afavour »

djeastm wrote: post #45
gdulli wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sir, you posted this reply from a device that gives you instant access to all extant knowledge.

This is true, but it's also fair to complain about someone on HN linking to a one-sentence headline on a paywalled site. It approaches ill manners, imho.

An archive.is link was the first comment on the page, nearly an hour before yours

Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani

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Post by tialaramex »

inshard wrote: post #38
whycome wrote: post #18

> Maguire, an outspoken and high-profile investor who is close to Elon Musk, wrote on X in July that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.” Balbale complained to other senior partners at the firm, who declined to take action against Maguire, arguing he…

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I mean, the Bible has God himself lying to Adam. God says do not eat this fruit - because if you eat it you'll die immediately. And later of course Adam eats the fruit, and of course he doesn't die, because actually God was lying about that.

The general position of Christians seems to be that God lying is OK, however lying to them is a sin. But, Christians lie all the time, so, seems like actually the rule is "Lie but pretend it's a sin if anybody else does it" which is consistent with God and their own behaviour and indeed consistent with lying about Mamdani...

Re: Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani

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Post by kannanvijayan »

inshard wrote: post #38
whycome wrote: post #18

> Maguire, an outspoken and high-profile investor who is close to Elon Musk, wrote on X in July that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything. It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way.” Balbale complained to other senior partners at the firm, who declined to take action against Maguire, arguing he…

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> exploitation of female captives and booty distribution

Oh dear! That's quite concerning.

It certainly would be a pretty terrible thing if someone capable of exploiting female captives and "distributing booty" acquired a position of power in the USA.

One shudders to even imagine such a situation.

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