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by shigawire 46 days ago
Stanford students are criticizing Google for enabling Israel. If Google was providing support for Hamas they could protest that too.
3 comments
ergocoder 46 days ago
I've never seen any protest by students that protested against Palestine.

In fact, at University of Washington, a protest was organized to support Palestine after the Oct 7 massacre on Oct 8; they chose to show support Palestine after Palestine did a massacre. And there was a very little criticism on that kind of actions.

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8note 46 days ago
is oct 7th actually comparable to what israel has done to Palestinians over time?

sure it was reprehensible, but is it on the same scale even? both before and after?

criticising hamas seems like premature optimization, and picking something basically irrelevant to the overall conflict

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ergocoder 46 days ago
> sure it was reprehensible

Exactly, and organizing a support for Palestine immediately after Palestine committed a massacre is NOT okay.

> criticising hamas seems like premature optimization

Are you saying we shouldn't criticize Palestine?

> picking something basically irrelevant to the overall conflict

Why do I have to pick? Why do you need to pick?

We can criticize both. Both are evil in different aspects.

Why do you have so much issue with criticizing the evilness of Palestine?

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bdangubic 46 days ago
> I've never seen any protest by students that protested against Palestine.

you should think long and hard why that is but answer is as always quite simple

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ergocoder 46 days ago
We all know why, and the reason doesn't fit what you want to believe. That's why you pretend to be obscure about it. Otherwise, you would have just said so out loud already.
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neaden 46 days ago
It's because the US government doesn't fund hamas and US companies don't work with Hamas.
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ergocoder 46 days ago
The protest isn't about Hamas/Palestine. It's about criticizing what Israel is doing.
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neaden 46 days ago
I was answering why you don't see people protesting Hamas, which is what you brought up. If you didn't want to discuss that, then you shouldn't have brought it up.
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xenospn 46 days ago
They could. But they would never.
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x3n0ph3n3 46 days ago
We both know they wouldn't, though.
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