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To the Leadership of Sequoia Capital,

We, the undersigned global founders from across the tech industry, are writing to demand immediate and decisive action in response to the unacceptable conduct of your partner, Shaun Maguire. His recent post on X on July 4, 2025, along with a documented pattern of anti-Muslim rhetoric over the past two years, has caused significant harm to the global tech community.

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[-] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago

No idea who the Maguire fellow is, but since he works for a large American VC firm, the piece about "coming from a culture of lying" is clearly projection.

[-] JollyG@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

How can this be projection? Silicon Valley’s culture brought us fraudulent medical tech, cryptocurrency scams, industrialized wire fraud, illegal taxis, and DRM juice machines. A paragon of honesty and integrity if I ever saw one.

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

White people get really triggered by uppity brown people.

[-] Alk@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

Rich people*

[-] Gonzako@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I'll be honest, all statements against Mamdami have been by rich people. They're trying to make it a race thing where it's a rich people thing

[-] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Stop making shit about race or skin if you want to beat racism

Edit: The post is about people who are anti-Islam, an increasing trend about a growing religion. It has nothing to do with the colour of people's skin. Making it about that doesn't help get more to realise that racism is wrong. Generalising all white people will put some people off from going against morons like Shaun Maguire.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

“comes from a culture that lies about everything”

What do you think he meant by that ?

How the logic of his statement works seems very plain to me, we've seen that a million times.

[-] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes Shaun Maguire is a racist, that's obvious. Heck he specifically mentioned the Islam.

But that doesn't mean people should continue this trend by saying crap like this

White people get really triggered by uppity brown people.

That was what I was responding to since the comment of Shaun was about the religion

It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry it seems you've stepped into the wrong timeline.

[-] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 6 points 2 weeks ago

No, people need to stop making shit about race or skin if you want to beat racism. We are all people in the end.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's a much better way to explain your point. Thank you for clarifying.

[-] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, sorry, my bad. I changed the original comment as well

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

you're preaching to the choir here.

[-] Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well probably, but having the discussion about what is acceptable and not is a discussion we should have to make the world a better place.

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

think about everything they wrote about Joe Biden just a year ago

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago

comes from a culture

America?

[-] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How does sharing xenophobic bullshit on twitter "harm global tech community"?

[-] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

if people dont like you they might not feel inclined to give you money

[-] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip -2 points 2 weeks ago
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