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9 days after writing in defence of a Free Palestine, Paul Biggar is dropped from his director role at CircleCI (hachyderm.io)

submitted 10 months ago by danielquinn@lemmy.ca to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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His original post , titled I can't sleep, is some brilliant writing. When we talk about the chilling effect that criticism of Israel creates in industries everywhere (including ours) this is what that looks like.

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[-] library_napper 55 points 10 months ago

He attacked their investors by name and said they support a genocide. Either they back him and everyone looses their job or they fire him

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Or, they back him and acknowledge that they supported genocide but have since realised how wrong they were?

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Or, they back him and acknowledge that they supported genocide but have since realised how wrong they were?

And then they all lose their jobs when the investor(s) pulls out. Did you not read the comment you were replying to?

If it’s a choice between one person losing their job and everyone losing their jobs, you are either rationally pragmatic to just one person or you are ideologically scorched-earth to everyone else.

I mean, if you are someone in a manglement position who has to pull that particular trigger you could also resign in protest, but at least that only torpedos your own career, and not the jobs of dozens of other people who work alongside you.

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

sometimes making a stand and doing the right thing means making sacrifices that you might never see the results of yourself. We are able to argue about this today because there have been people in the past who did that.

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