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Muslims do not have full rights, especially those who were murdered and had their land stolen. Do Muslims have the right of return? No. Can any Jew become an Israeli citizen? Yes. There are many other discrepancies.

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Yes Indigenous Americans should get their stolen land back. That’s a well established movement.

Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Seems this has more to do with Palestine and Google's involvement with Israel to provide cloud computing.

I saw someone post this was due to H1B visas. Then I drilled into the comments and saw it was a Palestine protest. It is getting hard to know what is true anymore as everyone is trying to push their own narrative.

"flood the zone" means a constant, loud, never-ending set of narratives all the time.

people will eventually start filtering out narratives they don't want to hear, and/or just tuning out entirely.

this serves those in power, as they have the ability to now shape the narrative.

see also: "the russian firehose of falsehood" https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

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You see this reflected in the huge number of children killed by Israel and minimal child casualties killed by Hamas. Israel is committing genocide while Hamas is resisting occupation and the stats make that crystal clear.

Correct. Israel is committing genocide. > Hamas is resisting occupation This is definitely not true. The fact that you downplay what Palestine has been doing is wild.

Occupied people have a right to armed resistance.

Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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Seems this has more to do with Palestine and Google's involvement with Israel to provide cloud computing.

In this seemingly forever argument, it seems there is some nuance in that Palestine is not Hamas and vice versa. One of the perspectives as I understand it is that Hamas is actually a threat to the existence of Palestine; the militaristic behaviour undermines Palestinian efforts at independence (and this is an avenue for exploitation by those who don't want to see an independent Palestine). It is a similar situation…

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Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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That’s not an excuse. Kidnapping is a police problem. Not a genocide problem.

Hamas' mass murdering isn't a "police problem" whatever that's meant to mean and they are quite explicit in their goal of genocide of the Jewish population in the southern levante.

And lets not forget that half of the attackers where just ordinary citizens of ghaza.

Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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In this seemingly forever argument, it seems there is some nuance in that Palestine is not Hamas and vice versa. One of the perspectives as I understand it is that Hamas is actually a threat to the existence of Palestine; the militaristic behaviour undermines Palestinian efforts at independence (and this is an avenue for exploitation by those who don't want to see an independent Palestine). It is a similar situation…

There's simply no excuse for what Israel has been doing and everyone with a functioning moral compass should be denouncing it. Debating about Hamas is a distraction. They have a right to defend their country, but not treating a whole population as collateral damage.

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Re: Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech

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I wish I’d skipped my graduation ceremony as well. What a complete waste of time.

I skipped mine. Definitely worth skipping - I don't really need the super expensive pep talk by someone who I almost always really don't want to hear from, inspiration porn is free (and largely unavoidable) by the gigaton nowadays.

Save the money, fund the humanities with it. Maybe then the people planning these speakers would realize why people are booing and walking out.

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