Recently, allegations surfaced on Reddit that Proton (or at least Proton’s CEO) supports Trump. Hillary Keverenge from Tech-Issues Today…

I’ve seen this posted a couple of times in comments, it seems like a reasonable investigation in to the recent shit storm

I usually actively avoid engaging in anything to do with US politics as it’s pointless getting depressed by an awful situation I have zero control over; this post is not about fueling arguments or making us all feel worse, just determining if a useful tech company has gone to shit (TL;DR: probably not).

  • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    8 hours ago

    Andy is an Asian immigrant living in Europe, and he’s not even ethnically white, which makes it even more unlikely that he would be a white supremacist.

    This is largely irrelevant I feel, given that they give further motivation for him not being a white supremacy in actual actions taken. Your origin or the colour of your skin doesn’t guarantee anything. For example Gandhi was a white supremacist.

    Overall a pretty good read.

    • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      6 hours ago

      I read this entire medium article from start to end, and that point stuck out to me so much that it caused me to pause, make sure I’d seen it correctly, and then restart with a more critical lens.

      Between lines like that, and the assumptions like

      • The “three cis-gender women on the board” wouldn’t be put there by a MAGA person because MAGA people would never hire women. This argument is piss-poor on its face. You could use it to say Trump isn’t sexist either.
        (Off topic but: “cis-gender”?)
      • These women are “feminists with liberal values” - no citations, no examples needed apparently.
      • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 hours ago

        Mahatma Gandhi. He said that white people should be the predominating race, and that black people are “troublesome, very dirty and live like animals.” He held some really unacceptable beliefs and behaviours, like continuously insisting on sleeping with children naked to prove how pure he was (for not assaulting them).