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   Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 09:52:09 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her)

   "An Israeli guard, probably the same age as my son said to me: "What's your religion bro...It became clear to me that unless I professed my religion,...the RIGHT religion, I wasn't going to be allowed to walk forward...I was in a region where your mobility was inhibited, your voting rights were inhibited...all inhibited based on ethnicity...& that was extremely familiar to me. And the most shocking thing about my time over there, is how uncomplicated it actually is."
   https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/2/ta_nehisi_coates

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     Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 10:56:01 JST Timnit Gebru (she/her)

     in reply to

     "What the authorities would tell you is that it is a security measure. But if you go back to the history of Jim Crow in this country they would tell you the exact same thing. People always have good reasons besides I hate you and I don't like you to justify their right for imposing a repressive regime on other people."

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     DaWoDerPfeffer (dawoderpfeffer@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 15:38:38 JST DaWoDerPfeffer

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     @timnitGebru
     "When people show us who they are, we should believe them"
     I believe Israel is showing us who Israel really is since 1948 … funny thing is: we do not want to believe what they keep showing us openly, so we ignore it!
     Palestinians are telling us how Israel is oppressing them since 1948 … we ignore them.

     As we have ignored Black SouthAfricans until the 1970s and said BDS will "only" hurt the Black poor.
     Now we claim BDS to be "antisemitic" — because BDS is very effective!

     #Racism!