Jax often tells me that I need hearing aids - but have to say I had NO issue very clearly hearing what Ibtihal Aboussad was saying at the ‘Microsoft 50’ Event. None at all. The fact that people are writing that they had no idea that she was protesting the war in Gaza suggests a few alternatives
- they just weren’t listening because they don’t anyway
- they block out women’s voices
- they block out foreign accents
- they have no idea that ‘something’ is going on in Gaza, so none of it made sense.
- they need hearing aids more than me.
… I’m sure there are some other thoughts and will append and comment if they are suggested.
In a different thread @njr shared 🔗 this to which I responded …
Hats off to the Verge for not editing it out. Unlike pretty much any other media organisation in America would do. In fact is doing.
Beyond that quite a few others have suggested this was absolutely the wrong time and place to make such a protest Like on 🔗 Daring Fireball)
to which I respond;
- If not then - then when?
- If not there - then where?
Somewhere nice and quiet so nobody hears?
Yes it’s hard. Yes it wasn’t appropriate? It never is.
and, when John writes;
there’s a time and a place for everything, and Microsoft’s own 50th anniversary celebration was not the time or place for two insufferable self-involved showboats to make the event about them. Because that’s what this was. It was about them, personally. Not about Gaza or Israel.
going on to say
The place for righteous protests is in public, in the streets - exactly as they are happening across the United States today.
.. the link takes you to a Guardian article about Tariffs - why not something related?
Trust me - there are plenty of demonstrations around the US against what Israel is doing - you just need to have been on the internet in the past couple of years. (Not so much by watching the telly).
But thanks to 🔗Wikipedia the protests are being logged - even if they are being ignored and even campaigned agains t by the usual douches.
Meanwhile a couple o’ bonus links
Gaza, Columbia University, Silencing people - it’s all connected.
CNN : A pro-Israel group says it gave US list of protesters to deport, drawing alarm from students’ supporters
🔗📼 Ian Bremner in 3 minutes on the issue
Time to stop - for now. I need an editor!!!
