Golden State Warriors Co-Owner Chamath Palihapitiya: “Nobody Cares About What’s Happening To The Uyghurs” In China

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With the 2020 Winter Olympics in Beijing just 18 days away and U.S. diplomats boycotting the games over what a spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing recently called China’s “ongoing ge…

alongside majority owners Peter Guber and Joe Lacob, expressed what he called “a very hard, ugly truth” about China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority-muslim population in the Xinjiang autonomous region.. You bring it up because you really care, and I think that’s nice that you care, the rest of us don’t care,” Palihapitiya said. “I’m telling you a very hard, ugly truth, okay? Of all the things that I care about, yes, it is below my line.

After Calacanis praised Biden’s China policy Palihapitiya said, “I think we have a responsibility to take care of our own backyard first.” “The what-aboutism that you’re proposing is so disproportional to the equivalent of the Holocaust going on — we’re talking about a million Uyghers in concentration camps right now — to talk about what we have here and we need to fix [and] to compare it to there or to Saudi Arabia whipping bloggers and throwing gay people off roofs for being gay…these two things are not morally comparable,” he said.The NBA has had a difficult relationship with China.

Palihapitiya, now a venture capitalist who was once VP of “user growth” at Facebook and rumored to be considering a run for governor in California, went on:

 

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