Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and 'regressive' cultures [View all]

Source: TechCrunch

Surveillance and analytics company Palantir recently posted what it called a “brief” 22-point summary of CEO Alexander Karp’s book “The Technological Republic.”

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The post ends by criticizing “the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism.” In Palantir’s argument, a blind devotion to pluralism and inclusivity “glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.”

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Higgins also argued that there’s more to the post than a simple “defence of the West” — in his view, it’s also an attack on what he said are key pillars of democracy that need rebuilding: verification, deliberation, and accountability.

“It’s also worth being clear about who’s doing the arguing,” Higgins wrote. “Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren’t philosophy floating in space, they’re the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it’s advocating.”



Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/palantir-posts-mini-manifesto-denouncing-regressive-and-harmful-cultures/

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Eliot Higgins is CEO of investigative website Bellingcat.

I saw a lot about this manifesto from Palantir as soon as I started reading social media posts this morning. I posted about it in GD earlier - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221184337 - because I didn't see any articles about it yet, though I knew there would be soon. This TechCrunch article was posted less than half an hour ago.

This is a tech company with huge contracts with a number of countries, maybe especially the US and UK, getting very political. Even fascist, as tech journalist Gil Duran pointed out this morning.

Not sure how this manifesto plays with most of Trump's base, but a post I saw from RW influencer and troll Mike Cernovich was approving.

IMO Palantir should not be trusted by any government.