Silicon Valley columnist Michelle Quinn of the Bay Area News Group has pannedventure capitalist Peter Thiel’s speech to the National Press Club on Monday, calling on tech leaders to “attack” Thiel for being white, male, and wealthy.
“Thiel represents a Silicon Valley of the past — before diversity of race, ethnicity, class and gender began to matter to the industry and its bottom line,” Quinn writes.
Quinn offers no answer — none — to the substance of Thiel’s remarks, in which he defended his decision to support Trump, against intense opposition from the rest of Silicon Valley, because millions of Americans outside Washington, D.C. and San Francisco “judge the leadership of our country to have failed.” – READ MORE