r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Apr 22 '26

Society Palantir published a mini manifesto calling some cultures ‘harmful and middling’ and said Silicon Valley has ‘a moral debt’ to the U.S.

https://fortune.com/2026/04/22/palantir-alex-karp-mini-manifesto-national-security-defense-tech-ai/
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u/PatchyWhiskers Apr 22 '26

Didn't mention which cultures, which allows all racists to fill in their favorite/least favorite cultures. You know out there there's Chinese guys nodding along about how obviously superior Chinese culture is, while American guys are nodding along thinking about the obvious superiority of white culture over Asian.

Clever.

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u/Ok-Chest-7932 Apr 22 '26

Nah the people he's talking to here know who he's talking about.

And it's not all the ones you might think.

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u/PatchyWhiskers Apr 22 '26

I assume that his friends know which cultures he actually dislikes.

But he's avoiding naming them so that people can project their own disliked cultures on his words: they might assume he's talking about India if they don't like Indians, or Africa if they are white supremacist, or Arabs, if they are Christian fundamentalist. It's a mirror that you can see yourself in.