You wouldn't support people like these government employees to have freedom of political opinion?
This isn't about politics. We're specifically apolitical (https://octopoedi.gitbooks.io/employee-handbook/content/Comp...).
As I choose investors, it's very important that they are aligned with the impact we want to have on the world. Thiel is, to be generous, no where fucking close.
And since you are attacking Paul Graham for not disassociating YCombinator with Thiel, why don't you put your money where your mouth is and refund the money you raised to YCombinator?
However: "He has a plethora of public comments revealing a shocking lack of empathy or caring about the greater good." Very much "citation needed." If anything, I've seen Thiel genuinely want to improve our world.
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
"Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." -- Winston Churchill
He's mad that women can vote because they don't vote libertarian.
I don't see the problem with this unless he's proposing a constitutional amendment to have their right to vote removed.
Are you going to limit speech to that with which you agree with? You either trust democracy or you don't, and quite honestly I don't. People are disinterested, apathetic, and uneducated on the issues.