Peter Thiel on ‘Woke’ Big Tech: They Don’t Consider Themselves as ‘American Companies’

breitbart ^ | 7 Apr 2021 | KRISTINA WONG

[MarvinStinson]

Tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel said Tuesday that American Big Tech companies do not consider themselves to be “American companies” due to “woke politics” and because their employees — particularly Chinese nationals — are sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Party on some issues.

Thiel said during a virtual discussion hosted by former Secretary of State Michael Pompeo:

If you look at the big five tech companies — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft — virtually very, very little presence in China. So they aren’t naturally a pro-China constituency. Apple is probably the one that’s structurally a real problem because the whole iPhone supply chain gets made from China, and Apple is one that has real synergies with China. But then, there’s something about the woke politics inside these companies, the way they think of themselves as not really American companies. And it’s somehow very, very difficult to, for them to have a sharp anti-China edge of any sort whatsoever. [Emphasis added.]

At Facebook, I’ll give you an example. You had with the Hong Kong protest a year ago, the employees from Hong Kong were all in favor of the protests and free speech. But there were more employees at Facebook who were born in China than who were born in Hong Kong. And the Chinese nationals actually said that, you know, it was just Western arrogance and shouldn’t be taking Hong Kong’s side and things like that. And then the rest of the employees at Facebook sort of stayed out of it. But the internal debate felt like people were actually more anti-Hong Kong than pro-Hong Kong.

Thiel was responding to a question about China’s advantages on tech vis-à-vis the United States. The discussion was the Richard Nixon Foundation’s inaugural Nixon Seminar hosted by co-chairmen Pompeo and former National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien.

[SecondAmendment]

And that is yet another reason H1-B visa employees from the “Orient” are preferred, since they have been immersed in collectivism since birth.

Multinationals have more in common with the CCP and PLA than the NRA or “Main Street America”.

[monkeyshine]

Why can’t these workers just do their jobs for 8 hours, let people use their platforms freely, and keep their personal politics to the dinner table and local taverns?

[aspasia]

Because it ain’t ever been that way.

[poinq]

Apple Google and Facebook are not American companies. Go there and meet with them. You will find yourself in a room with 90% foreigners. The CIA has a lot of foreigners too. You think these are American organizations. They are not. Remember all those witnesses in Trumps impeachment. They were CIA but most were born in other countries. You may see Americans in front of a camera. But go to their offices, You will find that these people have accents. They were raised and educated in other countries. They play by their own rules. They are outside the law. They can cancel anyone. And they have more money than god. So they can buy anyone. Look at the state they are in. California. They control most of California and that is what they want for the rest of the country.

[joshua c]

cuz they are LEFTISTS

[rightwingcrazy]

“They Don’t Consider Themselves as ‘American Companies’”

I don’t think they even regard themselves as lowly humans anymore. More like “transhumans”, or “superhumans”. They’ve evolved beyond us. We look like ants to them.

[monkeyshine]

Maybe. In my place of work, no politics and no lewd conduct. I had to reprimand someone for talking about the smell in the restroom he left behind. When I do water-cooler talk, it’s about abstract business concepts such as the merit of running a second shift at break even for cash flow purposes. Other people talk about The Walking Dead.

[faithhopecharity]

I agree that many of the big companies are not American in any sense of the word

but
we know many many people from Communist China. Almost to a person they are anti-Communist. But yes, there are still thousands and thousands of Communist agents embedded into “our American tech corporations” especially.......here to spy on USA and to steal our technology

[farming pharmer]

And that is yet another reason H1-B visa employees from the “Orient” are preferred, since they have been immersed in collectivism since birth.

Try the last few thousand years.

They're easily programmable and conform to whatever they're told, right or wrong, moral, amoral or immoral.

[tinamina]

H1 b visas

[LuxAerterna]

It’s a toxic blend of woke doofus hipsters and H1Bs.

Trashing the USA is celebrated in every way by the media and academia while Communist China responds immediately to every criticism.

[Carriage Hill]

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft & Apple.
I don’t consider them American Companies, anymore.
They’re the enemy.

[caver]

I’m retired and did work for a large corporation, over 60,000 employees worldwide. The 100 year old company has been saying for years that they are an international corporation, even though they are from southern Indiana. The CEO jumped on the bandwagon with Delta and Coke saying that they disagreed with the recently past Georgia voting law.

[Billthedrill]

There are plenty of bred-and-born American proggies who don’t consider themselves American and who have been educated in an America-must-be-brought-down environment. As employees of gigantic multinationals they feel invulnerable as well, with powers granted by their positions, the abuse of which allow them to “transform” America and the world to their taste in anonymity and without accountability. That’s a pretty toxic brew there.