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Miles Archer

(24,338 posts) Fri Aug 23, 2019, 09:51 AM Aug 2019

Well, what do you know? Another racist patriarch named Fred who handed his kids "seed money."

The family’s $100 billion fortune comes mostly from a massive network of oil and gas pipelines, and investments in other polluting industries like paper and plastics. The brothers inherited the seed money for their holdings from their father Fred Koch, who made his first fortune building oil pipelines for the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin in the 1930s. Back in the states, Fred Koch supported racial segregation and white supremacist groups like the John Birch Society.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/here-are-11-things-the-koch-brothers-didnt-want-you-to-know/

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Well, what do you know? Another racist patriarch named Fred who handed his kids "seed money." (Original Post) Miles Archer Aug 2019 OP

But but he gave money to universities and put his name on buildings dalton99a Aug 2019 #1

So is a person's "racism", ethnic and cultural prejudice along with divisive politics abqtommy Aug 2019 #2

There is no racism gene. That's learned behavior. nt Phoenix61 Aug 2019 #3

You're probably right. I know I learned to be accepting abqtommy Aug 2019 #5

Jesus Christ, Daddy Koch made his money working for Stalin? greatauntoftriplets Aug 2019 #4

dalton99a

(95,317 posts)

1. But but he gave money to universities and put his name on buildings

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 09:56 AM

Aug 2019

Burn in hell, evil asshole

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

2. So is a person's "racism", ethnic and cultural prejudice along with divisive politics

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 10:08 AM

Aug 2019

due to nature/genetics or nurture/learning? I'm betting on a combination of both which is no excuse but at least identifies the source of the problem.

Phoenix61

(18,889 posts)

3. There is no racism gene. That's learned behavior. nt

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 10:43 AM

Aug 2019

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

5. You're probably right. I know I learned to be accepting

Reply to Phoenix61 (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 10:51 AM

Aug 2019

from my Mother. It does make for an interesting discussion and I'm sure that not all the answers to genetics/DNA questions have been answered.

greatauntoftriplets

(179,353 posts)

4. Jesus Christ, Daddy Koch made his money working for Stalin?

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2019, 10:46 AM

Aug 2019

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