"Palantir" is presumably a reference to the Tolkien's Palantír. Besides being disgustingly pretentious, it would also seem to suggest that the founders of the company have fully absorbed the ethics of the Lord of the Rings. If that is the case, a little bit of institutional racism would not surprise me in the slightest: Tolkien's books are full of the racist, classist, and sexist attitudes. Simply being born an orc, or having a bit of orc ancestry makes you a bad person (or even worse, not-quite-a-person), with the possibility of redemption not even being worthy of consideration. If you are a servant, you will remain a faithful servant, and be happy about it. If you are high-born (i. e. your parents were rich and powerful), then great things await you. And so it goes on and on.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
