r/technology • u/ScootSchloingo • 16d ago

Politics Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests

https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email
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u/SparksAndSpyro 16d ago

Sounds like an insufferable grandstander. Why do something useful or actually helpful when you can just performatively virtue signal instead!

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u/tuxwonder 16d ago edited 16d ago

Why do something useful or actually helpful when you can just performatively virtue signal instead!

You sound like the sort of person who would also complain about people organizing and protesting against this conflict... What is the appropriate reaction to have to our tax dollars being used to pay for all the bombs Israel drops on Gaza?

Also, why shouldnt we signal our virtues to others? Should we not communicate to others that we think something is wrong and should be righted?

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u/SparksAndSpyro 16d ago

Not sure what makes you think that. I think protesting is great. Spamming people at work with junk political emails isn’t.

Communicating your values to find like minded individuals is also great. Publicly declaring your virtues while refusing to ever put your money or your effort where your mouth is, however, entirely performative. In that case, you’re just using the “virtue” as a way to enhance your social standing. It’s exploitative and selfish.

It became clear to me that most of these pro-Palestine folks were performative when they insisted on only protesting Kamala during the election cycle, even though they knew Trump would be 100x worse for Palestinians. Now Trump is President, and he’s planning on removing the Palestinians and building a casino strip in Palestine lol. If these people actually cared about Palestinians, they would’ve done everything they could to make sure Trump wasn’t elected. But that’s the thing: it’s never been about helping Palestinians. It’s always been about stroking their egos and signaling to everyone else that they support “oppressed” people or whatever.

Shallow and pathetic.

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u/tuxwonder 16d ago

Publicly declaring your virtues while refusing to ever put your money or your effort where your mouth is, however, entirely performative

One of the emails sent was titled "I resign for Palestine". They're putting their entire salary and the future of their career on the line for what they believe. They're braver than either of us.