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.
Boycots are not only for consumers. They can also be implemented by vendors. Stripe is a large company, but it has competitors.
A tobacco shop near us just moved from stripe to another vendor.
Guessing it was tobacco law related or something internal to their business, but I’ll let them know about this too.
(they’re Palestinian)
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
What a sad little person you are that you have to virtue signal everything just to feel loved.
I am trying to have a conversation about how we maybe should stop trying to destroy people because of small mistakes and you want to boycott me.
Thanks for being a perfect example of how small and pathetic you people are
“Just calm down” is better articulated as, “stop saying things that make me feel uncomfortable feelings.”
The rhetoric of manipulation and abusers.
You’re literally putting words in my mouth here.
No, I’m telling these people to actually calm down as they are making a huge fuss over something very small, demanding that other make sacrifices to satisfy their own want.
None of this will bring Palestine back. The US voted trump, so Palestine will be pretty much gone anyway, but I hear few screeching about that part.
This guy visiting beach and because of that I’m supposed to make sacrifices? Get a life
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.
No
You can protest all you want. I’m telling you to get a life and stop trying to ruin people’s lives over small perceived slights. This is not something that warrants protests, a guy went to the beach. Let it slide, this is not a hill to die on, this is not the fight you need.
There are actual issues that require protests, can we focus on that?
Isn’t it enough for you simply to not participate? What’s your actual problem with other people doing it?
I have no problem with people doing things
I have a problem with people stumbling over themselves to ruin other people’s lives for wrong think, or small mistakes. There is no room for learning, growing and improving, no, er have to cancel, terminate, destroy.
The guy went to a beach and now somehow is complicit in a genocide? What the actual fuck, talking about an over reaction
And let there be no mistake, shit like this destroys lives. Has been doing ever since cancel culture became a thing. Just remembering this Nobel laureate that lost his job and got buried for making a joke that was taken the wrong way as being racist. Oh wait, he didn’t actually make that joke, some black woman made it all up just to be in the spotlight. His career was destroyed, the woman got her attention and was never punished, and nobody ever apologized to him for the pitchfork bullshit. This is how it always goes and it pisses me off.
This virtue signalling has nothing to do with stopping genocides, it’s all about “look at me being against genocide! Do you see me being against genocide? See me!”
Meanwhile there are real victims of this behavior
Stop it already
What’s your actual problem with other people doing it?
Those people make the previous user feel bad for doing nothing against a genocide.
But instead of learning from this and be better, they chose to label it as pointless
It’s almost like as if we’re all expected to participate and if we don’t. Then we’re just as bad as them apparently. Maybe you may not think the same, but I’ve seen plenty of examples IRL and on the web where not following the trending boycott gets you outcast. And it’s also sometimes like the only thing you might hear from the mindless echo chamber.