Today I decided to spend the day working on something unrelated to antisemtism, or the Fediverse.
A friend and I met in person to work on an completely different project, and for a few hours I didn't think about the existential threat to my life, discrimination, or anything else other than the technical work.
That is, until we went outside to get lunch, where I saw this poster, and several others like it.
It's not "pro" anything. It doesn't say anything about Palestinian rights, or a fight for freedom.
Instead, it's purely anti-"Israel".
I couldn't help but in that moment think about the kind of antisemitic posters that existed in 1930s Germany that my own family must have seen in the lead up to the Holocaust.
But I don't live in Germany. I live in Vancouver, Canada, and here they were.
No one was shocked. No one was offended. No one was angry. No one cared.
This i how the Holocaust happened, through demonization and apathy.
That’s why she was terminated. It wasn’t cancel culture (which is certainly rife in Murka) and it wasn’t manipulation by the #billionaire class. She got herself fired.
No amount of her trying to deflect from her poor citation or leadership skills changes the narrative for #claudinegay