Y Combinator President Garry Tan’s on-line rant tweet could also be deleted from X, nevertheless, the results are lingering, particularly for 3 San Francisco supervisors who’ve now acquired threats.
Aaron Peskin, Myrna Melgar and Dean Preston acquired threatening letters to their residence this week, as first reported by the outlet Mission Local. They, and now two different supervisors, have made police studies.
Peskin spoke to TechCrunch concerning the letter, which he quoted from: “I wish a slow, painful death for you and your loved ones.” The entrance of the letter had a photograph of Tan, who final weekend posted a tweet addressing seven San Francisco supervisors who oversee the supply of native authorities providers.
It learn, “Fuck Chan Peskin Preston Walton Melgar Ronen Safai Chan as a label and motherfucking crew … And if you are down with Peskin Preston Walton Melgar Ronen Safai Chan as a crew fuck you too … Die slow motherfuckers.”
Following the publish and some different feedback, Tan apologized, writing that he “thought everyone would get the rap reference but that wasn’t a good call, reference or not – sorry!” The reference in query was the 1996 Tupac Shakur music “Hit ‘Em Up.”
To be clear, Peskin doesn’t assume the threatening letter he acquired got here from Tan. He believes it was truly from somebody who has despatched comparable threatening letters to the supervisors beforehand.
Peskin, together with 4 different of the board’s Jewish members, acquired anti-semitic postcards within the mail in October, Peskin mentioned. He shared among the verbiage from that correspondence, which reads, “This letter was sent to educate public servants. It was without malicious intent.”
The underside of the latest letter mentioned, “This mail was sent to communicate a political opinion. No threats were intended.”
Peskin has not met Tan personally. Nonetheless, he mentioned he was one of many San Francisco politicians Tan known as out in this YouTube video over his criticism of Cruise bringing its autonomous automobile to the town. In the end, Cruise lost its permit to function in California following an October accident involving a pedestrian.
In the meantime, Tan’s now-deleted X publish did “harm to democratic discourse,” Peskin mentioned.
“I’m attempting to draw a very bright line and say that it is unacceptable and that it is damaging to democracy,” Peskin mentioned. “Him taking the tweet down and apologizing on Twitter doesn’t leave me, or more importantly, San Franciscans with the feeling that this guy has learned something, or that he truly understands the gravity of what he’s done in the moment that we are living in.”
Makes an attempt to achieve Tan through Y Combinator weren’t answered on the time of publication.
