Tech startup CEO resigns over video of racist rant at Asian family

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Michael Lofthouse, CEO of California tech company Solid8, has resigned after release of a video showing him making a racist rant at an Asian family.

Bystanders recorded an alleged attempted lynching, vandals painting over a city-sanctioned Black Lives Matter mural and driving into protesters.shows Lofthouse cursing and gesturing with his middle finger at the family. He tells Chan’s family “go back to whatever ... Asian country you’re from” and adds that “Trump’s gonna f— you.”“I’ve dealt with racism before, but never on that scale,” Chan said.

Lofthouse said in his statement that he plans to enroll in an anti-racist program and added: “I wholeheartedly acknowledge that I am complicit in a system that enables this behavior and these broken beliefs to exist but I am dedicated to changing.”

 

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How does he resign from his own “company” that he runs out of a WeWork, his rented house, and a strip mall mail store? 🙄 MichaelLofthouse racist

lol at resigning from a one person company

If the American thing to do is sue; instead of Lofthouse taking convenience in announcing he can't handle a reality of contagion threat.. he ought be starting class axn suit against rnc on state/fed level : & push 4x criminal negligence, conspiracy (in trumps favor), criminal org

Consequences

These Nazis just keep outing themselves!

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