| ▲ | cjs_ac 8 hours ago |
| TIL that the head of Palantir's UK arm is the grandson of Sir Oswald Mosley, founder and leader of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s. |
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| ▲ | GaryBluto 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Sins of the father are not sins of the (grand)son. |
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| ▲ | stephc_int13 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Of course, but this lineage should indeed encourage some scrutiny. | | |
| ▲ | graemep 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Especially as multiple people in his family have had fascist sympathies. Given his ancestry wearing a black shirt for a TV interview was pretty bad judgement. | | |
| ▲ | persedes 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | If it quacks like a duck...? | | |
| ▲ | graemep 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | To an extent, but with caution and charity. A lot of exceptionally good people have come from bad families - one of the Borgias was a saint, for example. A lot of exceptionally nasty people seem to have perfectly nice families. Of course sometimes people who are, for example, brought up to be racist, are racist. |
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| ▲ | coldtea 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You'd be surprised how often the beliefs of the father/grandfather are those of the son/grandson, not to mention how often they feel the need to avenge for the perceived injustices or slights done to their parents | |
| ▲ | e2le 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Given the history of his family, one would expect them to avoid risqué associations and activities. I think it deserves some scrutiny. | |
| ▲ | nisegami 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Of course not, the grandson is hard at work on his own sins. | | |
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| ▲ | penguin_booze 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Apples don't usually fall that far from the tree. |
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| ▲ | rsynnott 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| ... I'm sorry, what? If this was a political drama, that would be written out on the basis that it wasn't believable. |
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| ▲ | SanjayMehta 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| He's in good company. MI6 head is Blaise Metreweli whose grandfather was Constantine Dobrowolski, the Nazis' chief informant in Chernihiv, Ukraine. |
