This Pro-Israel Silicon Valley Bro Just Went Viral for Islamophobic Tweets About Zohran Mamdani
This Pro-Israel Silicon Valley Bro Just Went Viral for Islamophobic Tweets About Zohran Mamdani
Meet Shaun Maguire, the multi-millionaire tech VC embracing anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate as Silicon Valley pours money into US and Israeli defense startups.
"[Zohran] Mamdani comes from a culture that lies about everything," he posted. "It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way."
Maguire lives in the Bay Area, but has tweeted incessantly about Mamdani since the progressive leader won the New York City Democratic mayoral primary last month. He has repeatedly falsely claimed that Mamdani, who is Muslim and has faced a tidal wave of Islamophobia since his win, is a radical Islamist. (Mamdani marched in NYC's Pride parade just last week)
Maguire also published a post on the Fourth of July, implying that "ending America" is a "religious goal" for Mamdani. "Mamdani is a new strain of Islamism, mutated to be more palatable for the Western mind," Maguire posted.
The fact that Maguire can make such extremely racist and Islamophobic comments publicly about a major American political figure shows how deeply anti-Muslim bigotry has become embedded in Silicon Valley culture. Silicon Valley billionaires are now openly embracing anti-Muslim hate as they pivot toward defense startups that profit from perpetual war and the genocide in Palestine.
The US war machine is structurally dependent on Islamophobia to justify decades of military intervention and surveillance, and, as Silicon Valley becomes even more intertwined with the defense sector, extremists like Maguire will likely only obtain more power and influence.
This feels like projection.
"It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda. The West will learn this lesson the hard way."
Muslim here (I know, imagine religion on Lemmy) and setting aside the rabid Islamophobia, can I just comment on how fucking weird this particular stereotype is? Like, most prejudiced stereotypes trace their origins to reality at some point, even if they're later twisted into misleading half-truths or complete fiction, but Western Islamophobes just made up this supposed mainstream Islamic belief out of whole cloth and bring it up as a gotcha. It'd be like if I said Jews are promiscuous and like to seduce married non-Jewish women (please tell me this isn't already a thing). It's just... bro what the fuck are you talking about?
That jewish stereotype you mentioned sounds oddly familiar. I think it actually was a stereotype in Nazi Germany... not exactly sure what it was called but I think it was "der geile Jude", the horny jew. It was used in tandem with illegalizing the marriage of a jew to a German
Oh. Goddannit Germany.
Lies all the time?
He should be president!
Sounds like VC material.
He's a VC at Sequoia Capital. Apparently not a particularly important one, since he's not listed among the "key people" on the firm's Wikipedia page.
Still, I'd be inclined to say "boycott companies with Sequoia investment", apart from the fact that at least some of them have called on Sequoia to distance itself from Maguire.
Here is the linkedin of this fascist troll: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaun-maguire-9881302b/