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Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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A reminder that antizionism is not antisemitism

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Connecting these two concepts like Netanyahu et. al. are constantly (insincerely) doing, is actually breeding real antisemitism. I wish more people realized this.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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post #18

"was called" - who was behind that?

that quotes attributed to "investors," according to Masad. but some of the most heinous stuff people said to him is public: https://x.com/rabois/status/1943804360863232513 "your friends should have not raped murdered and killed kids."

It's Twitter - that's how a lot of people (or bots) say hi.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that quotes attributed to "investors," according to Masad. but some of the most heinous stuff people said to him is public: https://x.com/rabois/status/1943804360863232513 "your friends should have not raped murdered and killed kids."

It's Twitter - that's how a lot of people (or bots) say hi.

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Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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Reading through this piece and all I can think of is how he's just the other side of the same coin. Simply a different color of the same elitism that our world is moving into as money concentrates and starts to meddle more and more with our political spheres while accountability slowly errodes to zero.

I found the piece rambling and incoherent, but I don't really see how this follows. This is an individual Jordanian founder who made a political statement. That's not really the same thing as the deep integration between the Israeli state, Zionist organizations, and big tech.

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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> Masad, 38, has felt obliged to speak out about Gaza ever since, calling out those in tech who, in his view, have supported Israel’s “genocide” of the Palestinian people. This sentence would be better without the scare quotes. Something like "calling out those in tech who support what he views as a genocide."

The phrasing in the article shows very strong bias towards Israel in general

Re: Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley

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> Masad, 38, has felt obliged to speak out about Gaza ever since, calling out those in tech who, in his view, have supported Israel’s “genocide” of the Palestinian people. This sentence would be better without the scare quotes. Something like "calling out those in tech who support what he views as a genocide."

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