read more:Peter Thiel at RNC: ‘Fake culture wars’ distract from broken economy
by Mike Murphy
July 21, 2016
Billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel dismissed “fake culture wars” in a speech endorsing Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Thursday night, saying they distract from the real problems facing America.
“I am proud to be gay,” said Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal PYPL, and an outspoken libertarian. “I am proud to be a Republican,” he continued, despite a recently adopted Republican Party platform that is avidly opposed to same-sex marriage, and which critics have called the most anti-LGBT platform in history. Thiel was the first openly gay man to speak at the RNC since 2000.
“I don’t pretend to agree with every plank in our party’s platform. But fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline,” Thiel said.
“When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom. This is a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?”
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