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Free Palestine in README #1865

Closed benjamingr closed 3 years ago

benjamingr commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I'm Israeli. I'm not personally opposed to the Free Palestine message in the readme. I don't want to get into my personal opinions regarding Palestine.

My goal with this issue is to try and help you avoid a mistake I believe I was a part of. If you'd rather have this discussion elsewhere feel free to email me instead.

Personally, I regret the #BlackLivesMatter banner that I supported in the Node.js website. It did very little to help with the injustice or tech's complictness in it - I believe we have failed in our promise to be part of the solution.

What I'd like to do is challenge you to do more than "performative allyship" here. "Free Palestine" is an ambiguous message that is divisive and doesn't do enough to help Palestinians.

Instead, I'd like to suggest supporting organisations that actively help Palestinians or promoting Palestinians yourself:

benjamingr commented 3 years ago

To be clear - my point applies equally to the BlackLivesMatter message in the README. Saying "black lives matter" isn't enough nor does it deal with the systematic problem.

The only reason I did not recommend companies/charities/accelerators for that cause is that I do not have experience with any.

aviv1ron1 commented 3 years ago

@benjamingr those are beautiful ideas that you brought up!

KimiNewt commented 3 years ago

that last link to a random post from 2016 is *chef's kiss*

benjamingr commented 3 years ago

That last post was just a real example of a message that worked for me personally. That is my username in hacker news.

DeepSpace2 commented 3 years ago

Just another reason for not using graphql...

FlickerLogicalStack commented 3 years ago

Nice place for some political discussions guys, applause. Any relation of Palestine to graphiql issues?

aviv1ron1 commented 3 years ago

Nice place for some political discussions guys, applause. Any relation of Palestine to graphiql issues?

Yes. Once the maintainer posts "free Palestine" in the title of the readme there you have a relation.

arielweinberger commented 3 years ago

@FlickerLogicalStack you didn't read the instructions did you...

leebyron commented 3 years ago

The GraphQL technical steering committee is working on a policy to guide the use of political speech from the voice of a GraphQL project. The original author chose to revert the original change via #1879 until we complete that policy. This should resolve this issue, so I am closing it.

As a reminder, all discussion within GraphQL projects must adhere to our Code of Conduct.

benjamingr commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the update. Removing the banner seems like a good call to me.

@acao if you would like to constructively contribute towards helping Palestinians please feel free to reach out to me or to any of the organisations I mentioned in this post.

acao commented 3 years ago

@benjamingr I am already working with local palestinian organizations and helping my jewish friends forming an IJAN chapter! This is something I’ve already discussed. The local organizations are the ones who encouraged use of the phrase “free palestine” at local protests where our rainbow coalition assembled, where people from all faiths assembled to call for an end to the apartheid. This act was a constructive way of helping the Palestinians, according to my Palestinian friends. I am not interested in any further condescending “guidance” on the matter

benjamingr commented 3 years ago

Fair enough, sorry if my message came off as condescending that was not my intention and best of luck.

If we learned a lesson about performative activism that'll have to do.