Comment by iamleppert
7 months ago
Because many people don't think that murder is a bad thing. If it's done in the name of one's God, or to clear away an existing culture or people to make way for one who has been taught to believe they are superior to others, special, or deserving in some way.
People like to act like this has never happened before, but the fact is it happens all the time throughout history. We like to think we are evolved past that, but we are not and unlikely to ever be at this point. The true nature of man is destructive, selfish, xenophobic and cruel.
After Israel is done with Gaza, we'll create some holiday that has children dressing up as Palestinians for first grade theater. Palestinians will become like Native Americans: scarce and marginalized. Because of the religious, ethnic and racial homogeneity of the Israeli people, its likely to be far worse than what settlers did to the Native population at the time.
Most people just don't care. If more did, it wouldn't be happening in the first place. Or at least those who are in power don't care and see human life as disposable.
No that's not what I meant. I'm not talking about the actual conflict or how it works. That's political discussion. My comment was specifically about the action of him posting the photo from a public relations perspective.
There is a controversial world event. Regardless of which side you're on, everybody agrees that there are many people with strong opposing views. As a representative of a company, he should have stayed away from the topic as a whole, because getting involved with it is a PR nightmare with essentially zero upside.
Not everyone puts the bottom line first, even among CEOs. In fact it's incredibly normal not to.
So what would you say the Vercel CEO is putting first here since this is clearly causing massive brand damage.
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LOL, unless that guy/the group like that guy can bring much more money than the customers/people hate it.
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there are 15m palestinians.
20% of Israeli population (~2m) are palestinians. how do you factor this into "religious, ethnic and racial homogeneity of the Israeli".
Apartheid definition. Palestinians don't have the same rights even if they're native to the land.
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Billionaires and ethnonationalist supremacists share a belief that they are "special" and entitled to do whatever they want because they are "better" and "more deserving". Doesn't matter the time period or the faction: European colonial invaders/separatists, Nazis, or Likud because almost every ideology based on supremacy tends to lead to war, repression, suffering, and/or mass death.
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