A left-wing mega-donor who has donated millions of dollars to Democrats is hosting a fundraiser for pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy’s Republican presidential campaign.
Chamath Palihapitiya is hosting an “intimate dinner” and fundraiser for Ramaswamy’s Super PAC at his home in San Francisco where tickets are being sold for $50,000 with the hopes of generating $1 million for the candidate, according to Puck News. Ramaswamy will be in attendance.
Fox News noted that Palihapitiya — a former Facebook executive who now is a part owner of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors — generated significant backlash last year when he said that “nobody cares” about communist China’s genocide of religious minorities in the country.
“Every time I say that I care about the Uyghurs, I’m really just lying if I don’t really care,” he said. “Let’s be honest, nobody, nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, okay? You bring it up because you really care. And I think that’s really nice that you care, but the rest of us don’t care.”
He later added, “Of all the things that I care about, yes, it is below my line. Okay, of all the things that I care about, it is below my line.”
Ramaswamy’s campaign told Fox News that the presidential candidate disagreed with Palihapitiya’s comments on the genocide, but that Ramaswamy would still attend the fundraiser.
In addition to Ramaswamy campaign Communications Director Tricia McLaughlin saying that the candidate believes the genocide is “an atrocity,” Ramaswamy himself recently characterized what China is doing to the Uyghurs as “one of the worst human rights atrocities committed by a major nation since the Third Reich of Germany.”
The communist regime’s rounding up of ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang is the largest mass detention of ethnic and religious minorities since the Holocaust.
China surveils everyone in their country, but they keep an especially close eye on the Uyghurs, whom they have subjected to mass-enforced sterilization, forced labor, and forced assimilation.
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Human Rights Watch has documented the atrocities being carried out in China’s concentration camps, which include “imprisonment or other deprivation of liberty in violation of international law; persecution of an identifiable ethnic or religious group; enforced disappearance; torture; murder; and alleged inhumane acts intentionally causing great suffering or serious injury to mental or physical health, notably forced labor and sexual violence.”