Corrected political message in README #1867
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Corrected political statement
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Shame on you, @acao, for using your maintainer rights to promote hate and division. I have 140k students on Udemy from all over the world. Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, Egyptians and more. We respect each other and collaborate together, setting aside our disagreements and differences. I live abroad and have mentored refugees in Hack Your Future. I have wonderful colleagues from all over the world, and even though we might disagree on certain political matters, we like each other. Eternalizing the division between our people was never the way. Coding is like music. It's an art. Please do the right thing and keep your dividing statements out of this wonderful world of software development. |
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+1 @ykadosh @arielweinberger ❤️ |
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Shame that people thinks Gaza is held by Israel, they suffer due to Hamas's actions. They use the money Israel is giving them for terrorism instead of education for kids. They use schools and women and kids as protectors to their terrorism actions. I just hope Whoever wrote this in the first place was doing this by mistake.
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I was debating wether or not to throw my glove into this ring or not, but I think that I should. First off, I must remark that I don't know any of you personally (except the person that pointed me here), but I'd like to believe that no ill harm was done on purpose. A lot of political and racial crises go uncovered by the media, especially in the eastern part of the world. It is paramount that we channel our morals and energy in the justified direction. Let's give @acao the benefit of the doubt, and not devolve this conversation. Back to topic, the Israel-Palestinian conflict is not a simple issue that can be summed via a mathematical equation such as 🇵🇸 > 🇮🇱 , but rather a complex political, territorial and religious conflict that is going on for decades. For instance I think that the remark Black Lives Matter is actually quite good, since it does not necessarily point fingers, the issue is vast and there is no single attribute that we can point at to be the source of it. If you want I'd be more than happy to talk to you, explaining my personal viewpoint (which I tend to keep to myself and close friends), everything that I will say will be backed by Wikipedia articles, and other articles by prominent states, my contact details are in my profile. |
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100% approved! Well done man! |
We gave him the doubt. But there is none. You can have a look at his twitter account for more ddetails (rikki_js).He is actively involved with one side of the conflict and thats why he posted this. He took pride in this action and he also knew there was going to be a mess about it and said he isnt sorry about that. |
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| > # Black Lives Matter 🖤 Free Palestine 🇵🇸 | |||
| > # Black Lives Matter 🖤 Free Palestine from Hamas 🇵🇸 | |||
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Why it matters from who to free it If you really care? Besides that, If it was #isrealUnderAttack with the flag of Israel then you'll likely write "Thanks for your kind words" and send love emojis and you'll not say "I don't think GitHub is an appropriate place for such political statements".. So let's be honest with each other.
Also, putting Palestine flag (with no humiliation to Israel flag) shouldn't bother you that much 🤷♂️
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He didn't say it should be replaced with Israel Under Attack.
Many GraphQL libraries were created and maintained by Israelis but you don't see them making political statements on the repos.
It matters who it's being saved from because without context it implies Israel is the culprit rather than the Hamas terrorist regime in charge of Gaza.
Ideally nothing would be written at all. But if you need to take a stance at least make that stance against terrorism.
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I personally do think that Gaza is under siege both from Israel and Egypt and that's a fact. Hamas is only a side-effect of living in this conditions. Besides that, Israel started killing and throwing Palestinians from their homes even before Hamas was created.. But that's an argument that we can't close since decades and it's a waste of time to go into the details.
I personally won't do such a change with political opinion on my repos (I agree with you on this) and thanks for the Israelis/non Israelis developers for their contributions.
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Yes, before Hamas Israel had to deal with other Palestinian terrorists and wars.
Gaza is not under siege. Israel moved out of Gaza in 2005 with the hope of peace. Instead Hamas decided to turn it into a military base. Israel has had tens of thousands of missiles fired at it since.
There wouldn't be any blockade on Gaza if it were peaceful. Dialog is important. I understand everyone has ingrained beliefs but not closing down dialog people will never be able to see eye to eye.
I realise GitHub isn't the place for this. But that's the point. This should have never have entered the repo to begin with.
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"I personally do think that Gaza is under siege both from Israel and Egypt and that's a fact." - where do you think Gaza gets their food and other merchants if not from Israel?? there is only a siege because if their will be open port and airport in Gaza, then Hamas will import missiles that can harm Israel even more, and then all the Arabs, Muslims and the left media will call out Israel for defending itself. This way the conflict will never end. It unfortunate that this discussion is made here. Back to your statement "Why it matters from who to free it If you really care? " It does matter, cause for most of the people who chant this: Free Palestine means the destruction of Israel, you know: "from the river to the sea Palestine would be free", it's a clear call for the destruction of the jewish state and that's a FACT. and that's why people here has a problem with that.
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What's the reason you decided to add it, then remove yourself from the project, and now recommend someone else removes it from the README?
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Oded, Why you've the right to fight against anyone that disagrees with Israel as a state (disclaimer: no Jewish is mentioned here) but you don't want Palestinians to fight what has been eating their land and attacking them since years? That's a double standards.
Madara, I agree with most of your reply and I said that I personally wouldn't put political statements in my repos
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Oded didn't say anything like that.
Israel had the right to defend itself. Hamas doesn't have the right to fire thousands of rockets at civilians and call for the destruction of Israel.
There's no double standard. You can run all the political campaigns you want and basically everyone agrees OSS projects is not the place for that.
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Each side will give all the rights to do whatever they want in the name of anything.. unsubscribing from this thread ✅
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It's sad that you support terrorism in that case and see everything as morally equivalent.
Attacking civilians is wrong. Protecting civilians isn't. Whatever you think about the larger issues involved.
Always make sure you have some good whataboutism in your statement! |
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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. |
Congratulations for the end of this saga. Lets focus on good free software instead of politics. |
I don't think GitHub is an appropriate place for such political statements, but if you chose to make such a statement, at least make it unambiguous.
So I've corrected the statement to read "Free Palestine from Hamas", because Hamas is the true oppressor of Palestinians, and I wanted this to be clear. Here's why:
This is a very partial list, the complete list can probably go on forever.
If you truly seek justice, you will approve this PR.