Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, is apparently an anti-woke warrior. In November, he slammed Ivy League voters in New York for supporting Zohran Mamdani. Now he is sticking up for working class white men.
During an event with the New York Times, Karp suggested that the country has empathy for every group except working class (mostly) white males.
He then pivoted to the subject of blowing up narco-terrorist boats and said that if the drugs coming into the country were affecting wealthy liberals, there would be no questions about blowing up the boats.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp:
“Our country has selective empathy for everybody but working class, particularly white males.
“When you look at mainstream newspapers on the constitutionality of blowing up boats bringing fentanyl here, I guarantee you, if that fentanyl was killing… https://t.co/3rtAl9hLpa pic.twitter.com/TLhllYVnJq
— Jawwwn (@jawwwn_) December 4, 2025
In another moment from the same event, Karp talked about how big businesses get bailed out for bad decisions, while poor and working class Americans get the shaft.
Karp went on to argue that companies that seek help from the government after making “stupid decisions” should face the full consequences of their actions.
“If you want to make your stupid decisions, and then you go to the White House and ask for money, you should absorb the full risk of that,” Karp said. “… Somehow your salary should be capped to the point where you make a lot of money for the American people.”
Karp added, “We at Palantir absorb the full risk of our failure, and everyone else should too.”
The chief executive also claimed that “poor people” are “the only people who pay the price for being wrong in this culture.”
“The rest of us somehow outsource all the times we’re wrong and stupid to the whole society,” Karp said. “But if you’re poor and you’re a soldier, or you’re poor in the ghetto, when you’re wrong, you go to prison, or you die.”
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on America’s legitimacy crisis:
“The only people who pay the price for being wrong in this culture, are poor people. The rest of us somehow outsource all the times we’re wrong and stupid to the whole society. But if you’re poor, a soldier, or in the… pic.twitter.com/IXXgZobFaW
— Jawwwn (@jawwwn_) December 3, 2025
When did this way of thinking become the exception rather than the norm?