Thread by @ConMijente

Today, Palantir's CEO gave an interview at Davos. He admitted they help hunt down undocumented people.

This is after *months* of denial, saying they help fight trafficking & terrorism, deflecting when asked about ICE.

Gig's up @PalantirTech #NoTechforICE
cnbc.com/2020/01/23/pal…

Alex Karp says "It's a de minimis part of our work, finding people in our country who are undocumented, but it's a legitimate, complex issue."

What's complex about arresting parents at work, leaving kids home alone, ruining families?

Nothing. It's wrong—but Palantir enables it.

There is nothing complex about human rights violations. There is nothing complex about complicity.

If you help ICE, if you help deportations, you separate families, you ruin lives, you enable an anti-immigrant crackdown.

This is an easy moral choice—& they're still failing.

They want you to believe it's complicated, they want you to think there's nuance so that you don't get outraged, so that you censor yourself & give them the benefit of the doubt.

Palantir does this repeatedly. All corporate actors do this. It's how they profit from suffering.

Watch the entire interview. It shows exactly where Karp is comes from. He repeatedly talks about "the West" & how the US must be strong to defend us from the rest of the world.

This is fascist language—us vs. them, white vs. Black/brown, West vs. rest—meant to justify violence.

Karp can say this because he's benefitted from the US safeguarding him & his kind.

Many of us haven't. Many of us have faced US imperialism abroad & militarism at home. Many of us have family who've been killed by it.

Karp is a PhD. He knows better—yet, he's willfully ignorant.

Luckily, everyone knows better now. A year ago, Karp said nothing about ICE when he was interviewed at Davos. Now, he can't avoid it.

The company's rep has tanked. They're the tobacco of tech. Students don't want to work there. Workers have quit.

It's time Palantir drops ICE.