‘A s**t den of hate’: Silicon Valley pastor unloads on liberal tech elitists
RT.com
22 May, 2018
A Silicon Valley pastor has resigned after a series of tweets he made slating the tech industry’s social justice posturing and calling the city of Palo Alto an “elitist s**t den of hate” were made public.
Gregory Stevens’ now-deleted tweets were made public at a hearing of the Palo Alto City Council, where his church, the First Baptist Church of Palo Alto, had been seeking approval to lease its space out as a community center.
In the foul-mouthed tweets, Stevens called the city “disgusting,” its social justice Earth Day activism a “f***ing joke” and the city’s police force “pigs.” He also mocked Mormons, the elderly and Beyoncé. Concerned residents argued that a man like Stevens was unsuitable to oversee a community center.
Stevens, whose church was a liberal and LGBT-inclusive organization, resigned in order to deflect negative publicity away from the church. In a statement, he explained: “I tweeted to vent my frustration, and I acknowledge that I did so in an unprofessional and often hurtful way. My Twitter community has always been a small group of progressive ministers and Leftist political activists to whom my rants were geared.”
In his 623-word statement emailed to the San Francisco Chronicle, Stevens said that he was frustrated with the city’s wealth inequality.
“In my experience of trying to work with this community for almost 3 years, I believe Palo Alto is a ghetto of wealth, power, and elitist liberalism by proxy, meaning that many community members claim to want to fight for social justice issues, but that desire doesn’t translate into action,” he wrote.
Stevens had moved to California from his native Florida to study theology, and he began working in Palo Alto in 2015. There he became frustrated with the greed of the tech industry and the city’s widening gap between the impoverished and the mega-rich.
“The tech industry is motivated by endless profit, elite status, rampant greed, and the myth that their technologies are somehow always improving the world,” he said, adding: “The insane wealth inequality and the ignorance toward actual social justice is absolutely terrifying.”
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