@gruber I know it doesn’t mean much, and I know one reader who has read literally every post of yours for 20 years doesn’t mean much, but when thinking about Google employees protesting their company working with the Israeli government, I hope you can maybe think about this photo instead of thinking about how Google must be an amoral business dealing with any genocidal fascist government.
You are wrong. You have sided with genocide. Please! Please! Please!
@ryanmiglavs My position on Google firing these employees has nothing to do with the issue they're protesting. They could be wearing red MAGA hats protesting Trump's trial in NYC. They could be waving Israeli flags protesting for the release of the October 7 hostages Hamas still holds. Or they could be protesting on behalf of Palestinians in Gaza. If you squat in your boss's office and deface the office with propaganda from your side, you're going to get fired.
Every protest is disruptive. It’s the point. Disruption is the only tool available when there’s a major power imbalance.
Every protest comes with comfortable people clucking their tongues, agreeing with the message, just not how they’re protesting. Rules, policy, decorum. Conspicuously, these folks tend to only criticize the protesters, not those with power who quash them.
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