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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 04:12:15 JST Aral Balkan

   Wix fires employee for Gaza support, tells staff to “join a company initiative to create videos and creative campaigns”, to “support Israel’s narrative” … “show Westernity” in posts, as “unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans and Americans”. It’s “very important to emphasise this in texts and images so that they feel close to us”

   Internal Wix chat encouraged staff to support Israel’s ‘narrative’ in Hamas conflict

   https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/10/24/internal-wix-chat-encouraged-staff-to-support-israels-narrative-in-hamas-conflict/

   #wix #israel #gaza #ireland #genocide

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 04:19:00 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Carrie Shanafelt

     @carrideen I see your “Westernity” and raise you a “unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans and Americans”

     #racism

   • Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 04:19:01 JST Carrie Shanafelt

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     @aral
     "Westernity" is a hell of a drug.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 05:16:55 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Carrie Shanafelt

     @carrideen I hear you and that’s terrible bigotry. Although, also, as a Turkish ex-Muslim, I also find the term Islamophobia very problematic.

     https://ar.al/notes/islam-is-privilege/

   • Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 05:16:59 JST Carrie Shanafelt

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     @aral I had never heard this particular flavor of Islamophobia until I visited a Turkish friend in Iceland. Not a day went by without some Icelander lecturing me about the dangers of being seen in public with a Muslim. It would immediately become this "fundamental differences" talk that was supposed to make me afraid of discrimination by association. I couldn't help but realize how many places in Europe I'd felt welcome in because I was white and alone or with white-passing friends.

   • Carrie Shanafelt (carrideen@c18.masto.host)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 05:17:02 JST Carrie Shanafelt

     in reply to

     @aral 🤬

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 06:08:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Carrie Shanafelt
     • Alper

     @alper @carrideen 💕

   • Alper (alper@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 06:08:14 JST Alper

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     • Carrie Shanafelt

     @aral @carrideen well said/written. I also was raised in a secular Muslim household in Turkey and by 14 I was "agnostic" (read shy atheist) and by early 20's straight up atheist. Now almost 50, after seeing what islamists did to the country and the culture there, it drives me up the wall when I hear people say islamophobia here in the (supposedly) very liberal SF bay area. They think they are being open minded. Like you said, it is a stupid shield just like Russophobia.

   • CaliCarol (jawarajabbi@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 07:13:58 JST CaliCarol

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     @aral

     Eeeew. That's ridiculous. And super racist.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 07:13:58 JST Aral Balkan

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     • CaliCarol

     @jawarajabbi Yep.