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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell, what do you know? Another racist patriarch named Fred who handed his kids "seed money."
The familys $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/
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
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dalton99a
(81,513 posts)1. But but he gave money to universities and put his name on buildings
Burn in hell, evil asshole
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)2. So is a person's "racism", ethnic and cultural prejudice along with divisive politics
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
(17,006 posts)3. There is no racism gene. That's learned behavior. nt
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)5. You're probably right. I know I learned to be accepting
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
(175,739 posts)4. Jesus Christ, Daddy Koch made his money working for Stalin?