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tenderfoot

(8,424 posts)
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 10:41 AM Oct 2018

Alexander Nix - former Cambridge Analytica chief on Barbados leaders - "They're just n*ggers."

Alexander Nix - former Cambridge Analytica chief - responded to rejection of his business pitch by political leaders in Barbados by saying:

“They’re just n*ggers.”

Former Cambridge Analytica chief used N-word to describe Barbados PM

Exclusive: leaked papers reveal racist slur by Alexander Nix, who is pitching to run election campaigns in Caribbean

Nix had worked in the region previously for SCL Elections, a sister company of Cambridge Analytica, before both closed down earlier this year.

New details around the firm’s work in the Caribbean – and the tactics it was prepared to use – have emerged from leaked emails and documents relating to SCL.

The Guardian has seen an exchange of messages in which Nix appears to refer to Mia Mottley, who was elected prime minister of Barbados in May, and senator Lucille Moe, who is the country’s information minister, as “niggers”. The messages are dated October 2010.

At the time, it appears SCL was pitching for business with the Barbados Labour party and had apparently attempted to make contact with Moe and Mottley, who was then leader of the opposition.

A member of SCL’s team wrote to Nix on 15 October, saying: “I get the distinct impression they don’t want to talk to us.” To which the SCL Elections boss replied: “they just niggers.”



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In an emailed statement, Moe confirmed that SCL had contacted the Barbados Labour party in order to offer its services. She said: “We were not comfortable working with them so we took a decision not to engage their services.”

The disclosure is likely to fuel concerns about a return by Nix to the region, where his work was the subject of controversy and denunciations from local politicians long before SCL and Cambridge Analytica came under scrutiny in Britain.

more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/08/former-cambridge-analytica-chief-alexander-nix-used-n-word-to-describe-barbados-pm

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Alexander Nix - former Cambridge Analytica chief on Barbados leaders - "They're just n*ggers." (Original Post) tenderfoot Oct 2018 OP
Friends of that horrible man/daughter team... whatsis name and Rebekkkkah....Mercer CurtEastPoint Oct 2018 #1
The racist pos rockfordfile Oct 2018 #2
Cambridge Analytica? They're just assholes. Initech Oct 2018 #3
That's how they felt about Obama as well malaise Oct 2018 #4
what occured to me while reading this.. JHan Oct 2018 #6
Indeed malaise Oct 2018 #7
He said "they just" not "they're just" .... I know that is a small thing but SweetieD Oct 2018 #5
Kick dalton99a Oct 2018 #8

CurtEastPoint

(18,550 posts)
1. Friends of that horrible man/daughter team... whatsis name and Rebekkkkah....Mercer
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 10:55 AM
Oct 2018

typical Repube mentality.

JHan

(10,173 posts)
6. what occured to me while reading this..
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 06:00 AM
Oct 2018

is that SCL was used by the previous government* (UNC) in Trinidad and Tobago.

It's all so unsurprising.

SweetieD

(1,660 posts)
5. He said "they just" not "they're just" .... I know that is a small thing but
Mon Oct 8, 2018, 11:12 AM
Oct 2018

I notice bias to correct the speech of white people even when they are speaking improper or in slang, correcting it when they didn't even ask. I notice this a lot with Trump's remarks too. Often they will be quoted with corrections, even though he technically said something different and grammatically wrong.

As to the other part, of course he is a racist piece of shit. No surprise.

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