Paul BiggarDec 14, 2023

I wrote about the genocide in Palestine, and how tech has been silent and complicit.

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

I can't sleep

I can't sleep. I'm lying in bed every night, and images of Gaza are running through my head. Fathers holding their babies, dead, caked in dust. Bombs dropped on homes [1], on hospitals [2], on schools [3]. Tens of thousands of dead [4] in indiscriminate bombings [5]. Children crying, pulling

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In it, I call out my investors who are whitewashing the genocide and promoting Israeli talking points while Israel bombs and murders innocent civilians.
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Please read and share - I don't want to have torched my career for nothing

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

I can't sleep

I can't sleep. I'm lying in bed every night, and images of Gaza are running through my head. Fathers holding their babies, dead, caked in dust. Bombs dropped on homes [1], on hospitals [2], on schools [3]. Tens of thousands of dead [4] in indiscriminate bombings [5]. Children crying, pulling

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Reading it I felt an unpleasant chill. Then I realized it's the same kind of feeling I had when I realized my brother and his wife are the kind of people who would be ideal camp guards and Party members. Their support for the genocide in Gaza dovetailed with remarks that us LGBT people don't really deserve rights, and we should be happy we aren't beaten in the streets. It made me understand the despair. I'm incredibly lucky to live where I do - and yet, I live in a place that was almost completely put to the sword by the same kind of hatred that sees tens of thousands killed in months.
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Dec 16, 2023 at 11:44pmWeb