Warriors co-owner Chamath Palihapitiya says the 'ugly truth' is 'nobody cares about what's happening' to Uyghur Muslims in China

During an episode of the "All-In" podcast, Chamath Palihapitiya said that nobody cares about what's happening to Uyghur Muslims in China.
"I'm telling you a very hard ugly truth," Palihapitiya said during the debate. It is below my line, and all of the things that I care about.

The founder and CEO of Social Capital is also an owner of the Golden State Warriors.
"You bring it up because you really care, and I think that's nice that you care, the rest of us don't care," he told Calacanis.

According to Human Rights Watch, Chinese authorities have held as many as one million Uyghur Muslims in "re-education" camps where they have been subjected to human-rights abuses.

China denied all allegations of abuse against the Uyghur population.

The NBA, which is one of China's most popular sports leagues, has faced backlash in China as players speak out about human rights in the country.

Morey, the former general manager of the Houston Rockets, supported protesters in Hong Kong and the team was written off by Chinese streaming giant, which also stopped live broadcasts of Philadelphia 76ers games. The Chinese government's treatment of the Uyghur people was criticized by Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter.

The Uyghurs aren't a priority for Palihapitiya, unlike other issues such as US healthcare, infrastructure, and climate change.

Do I care about a group of people in another country? "I will not prioritize them over us until we take care of ourselves," Palihapitiya said.

He pointed to the number of Black and brown men who are in jail in the US each year. Black Americans are imprisoned at a rate five times that of whites, and Latinx people are 1.3 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Latinx whites, according to The Sentencing Project.

"Human rights in the US are more important to me than they are anywhere else on the planet," said Palihapitiya, who said he is from Sri Lanka, but feels a responsibility to fix the issues of the country that adopted him.

The Chinese Communist Party could be considered a dictatorship, and he wouldn't be an "armchair journalist" on the topic of the Uyghurs.

He said he didn't know.

The Warriors said in a statement that the investor's views don't reflect those of the franchise.

Insider reached out to Social Capital for a comment.