Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said some capitalists "are going to be the first" to be "shot in the revolution" in a tweet Wednesday.
"Me-first capitalists who think you can separate society from business are going to be the first people lined up against the wall and shot in the revolution," he wrote.
Costolo was responding to a tweet in a thread about whether tech companies and business leaders should involve themselves in social justice issues.
"Tech companies used to welcome lively debate about ideas and society," he tweeted in the thread on Sept. 29.
"It was part of the social contract inside the company, and it's what differentiated tech culture from, say, Wells Fargo culture.
Twitter did not immediately respond to an inquiry asking whether Costolo's Wednesday tweet was in violation of any of its policies.
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