Well, what do you know? Another racist patriarch named Fred who handed his kids "seed money."

[Miles Archer]

The family’s $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/

[dalton99a]

1. But but he gave money to universities and put his name on buildings

Burn in hell, evil asshole

[abqtommy]

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]

3. There is no racism gene. That's learned behavior. nt

[abqtommy]

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]

4. Jesus Christ, Daddy Koch made his money working for Stalin?