Re:My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley...
by inglor on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @06:25PM
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I think you are barking up the wrong tree.
First when you take our extremely complicated political situation and shove it into a 1d box it comes off as both condescending and paternalistic. The situation is complicated and difficult, I am not denying there is a problem.
Second - I am volunteering in organizations like GSG, I am not for the west bank settlements and I vote left. That’s mostly irrelevant though - since I am not “Israel”, like the OP I am just one human living my life out trying to be better.
Third - the “complicated politics” in this case does not refer to West Bank settlements. It refers to my inability to hire, mentor, collaborate and befriend Gaza engineers easily.
I am a hacker, I am not trying to solve “peace in the Middle East” and I think I am entitled to feel frustrated by this :)
First when you take our extremely complicated political situation and shove it into a 1d box it comes off as both condescending and paternalistic. The situation is complicated and difficult, I am not denying there is a problem.
Second - I am volunteering in organizations like GSG, I am not for the west bank settlements and I vote left. That’s mostly irrelevant though - since I am not “Israel”, like the OP I am just one human living my life out trying to be better.
Third - the “complicated politics” in this case does not refer to West Bank settlements. It refers to my inability to hire, mentor, collaborate and befriend Gaza engineers easily.
I am a hacker, I am not trying to solve “peace in the Middle East” and I think I am entitled to feel frustrated by this :)