Supporters of Palestine have called to boycott the payment platform Stripe after its CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison - an Irish-American billionaire who has advocated for Palestinians in the past - posted on social media on Wednesday about his run on the beach in Tel Aviv and how it was "great" to be back.
Many responded to his post on X by pointing out that he was only thirty minutes away from the Gaza Strip. Conservative estimates say nearly 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war on Gaza and two million have been under constant Israeli aggression as they fight what UN experts have called "'deliberate starvation".
Some drew comparisons to the Academy Award-winning film, Zone of Interest, which depicts the everyday lives of Germans who lived next to the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two.
Yeah, and as a company owner I now I have to invest good amounts of money to switch providers? Spend development resources, administrative resources and whatnot to make a switch because the guy made a tweet you don't like? And what do I do if the next providers's CEO does something you don't like?
Come on, this nonsense has to stop
Him visiting a beach in Israel isn't the same as him saying "kill all the Palestinians". This extreme knee jerk reaction is what has caused so much shit already, can we please PLEASE just stop it?
Reply with a tweet that maybe he is a bit insensitive, and please let it be done with that. This screeching isn't solving anything, it isn't helping Palestinians, it's just making life miserable for more people.
Just calm down
Yes stating you like visiting an Apartheid state while it is in the middle of a genocide is the same as saying 'kill all the Palestinians'
How else would you interpret someone saying "good to be back in Nazi Germany" at the height of the Holocaust.
You are not expected to participate in every boycott. If you cannot avoid using something you can keep using it. But if you do not care much about a certain brand and it is on the boycott list, consider using alternatives
No, it is not. You do know that life still goes on right? Yes, he shouldn't tweet about it, songs screech at him for being insensitive, stop with this cancel culture stuff already.
People can't make a single small mistake in life anymore without being stomped into the ground by people like you. You want the company stripe gone, you want this dudes life ruined, you want other companies to sacrifice time and resources and get pissed when they aren't willing to do that because THE DUDE VISITED A BEACH.
What is it with current generation and the sheer inability to just let things go? Yes, there is a genocide happening in Palestine, and Palestine has my complete and 100% support and Netanyahu will burn in hell for sure.
But can we just please stop cancelling everything that doesn't do 100% correct? Thank God Lemmy is anonymous or I know for sure that I'd get a cancel culture mob after me as well for the sin of wrong think, I'm disagreeing with you after all, oh the horror.
People like you are the reason why so many people are flocking to right wing ideologies. You are part of the problem. With you they can't make a single mistake, they can't learn and improve, they are perfect or we will destroy them. At the right wing side they're welcomed with open arms and can just live normally. People like you are the reason we're stuck with trump.
Just. Calm. Down.
Dude just accidentally visited a beach. A mistake anyone could make. Get over it. I myself have accidentally just walked down a beach which may have been in a country actively committing genocide and I may have had to make the conscious decision to fly to said country and ignore everything about it, and my money may have been helping to fund said genocide and whitewash the actions but like it's just a minor mistake. Can easily happen. It's just an accident bro.