Imagine being so racist that you get upset over a watermelon.
As with everything, it isn’t about the watermelon, it is about the symbol it represents. To anyone that doesn’t want to excuse / explain, a symbol represents something - in this case support for Palestine. So it is treated the exact same as if she had a Palestinian flag in the background. Especially because she is Palestinian.
The only idiotic part is the “antisemitic” thing, when 1. Palestinians are Semites too, 2. Supporting Palestine isn’t antisemitic.
I’d probably ask a person with a flag background to take it down too tbh, no matter if it was the Israeli flag, Palestinian, British or US. Just probably not for those reasons that they stated.
The same people that think not murdering babies is antisemitic
Watermelons became symbols of Palestine amid censorship of the Palestinian flag because of its similar colours.
Ah, ok - before reading I thought someone had got their stereotypes mixed up.
I bet none of these “apolitical” organisations would act if someone displayed a Ukrainian flag and I bet none of them would claim it was potentially sensitive and offensive to Russians.
Supporting Ukraine = nonpolitical
Supporting Palestine = political
Mega double standards when it comes to the two conflicts.
(I am against the Russian invasion, just in case it seems otherwise)
All flags are inherrently political. A flag is the ultimate symbol for nationalism. Usually you shouldn’t display them in any context, especially in a job that makes you face people from different backgrounds, ethnicities or nations.
So yeah, I’d tell someone to take off the Ukraine background too, not for the “someone might be offended” reason
supporting the status quo is always political but invisibly so
Ukrainian flag - not political. Russian flag - political.
Israeli flag - not political. Palestinian flag - political.
I think that’s the point of the lawsuit. You can’t claim you’re “completely apolitical and non-biased” when you actually support one side of a conflict and punish your employees who support the other side.
Watermelon
Ow, my… Judaism? Idk, can I have some too? I’ll share my gala apples.
Guaranteed they’d embrace pineapples, with bells on.
How dare you
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I can’t believe you would post something so blatantly antisemitic!
:sprinkles some tajin on it:
