Any time I read stuff like this I imagine a mirror world where I'm employed in a hyper conservative tech industry, judged and scrutinized and maybe fired for donating time and money to progressive causes.
Unethical behaviour is unethical, even if it at its core a politically motivated act.
At the same time, I also think corporations should be able to fire people for no reason at all.
Lucey was funding memes that brought out the worst in people, memes with blatant racist/sexist undertones.
And a lot of executives jobs now have some clause about personal character outside of work, as they very well should. Being a racist/sexist outside of work should be costly and it is.
I funded a single billboard that depicted Hillary Clinton and the text "Too Big to Jail". That is it. This whole racist/sexist/anti-semitic trolling machine narrative was invented from whole cloth. If there were any examples to back it up, you have to imagine someone somewhere would have something to show.
Still however, there seem to be a lot of articles claiming that you funded things other than just the billboard you talk about. Specifically, that you funded troll groups who were making the memes [ https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/23/13025422/palmer-luckey-oc... ].
Is this not true? If it is true that you were funding the shitposting, then surely you don't know the content of all that was funded from your pockets -- memes that very well could have been racist/sexist/in poor taste, right?
This is not perfect, but it goes over how people got mislead into thinking otherwise: https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/29/the-timeline-of-the-tweet...