PRO-PALESTINE NYU LAW STUDENT SPEAKS OUT AFTER JOB OFFER WAS RESCINDED - eviltoast
  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yikes

    I’m a big advocate for considering Palestinians to be completely separate from Hamas, and that punishing civilians for the attack by cutting off crucial resources is unconscionable. If I were on a hiring committee, it would be for an engineering position, and I would strongly recommend against hiring them.

    They have very pointedly not made a condemnation of the Hamas attack which killed innocent people and took them hostage. They liken that attack to legitimate Palestinian resistance, and they blame Israel for the actions of the terrorists, instead of the terrorists. This guy isn’t losing the job offer for supporting Palestinian civilians. He’s losing it for refusing to condemn murderers and the murders, and suggesting the terrorists are Palestine’s resistance. And others have pointed out how he used his position of power inappropriately as a bully pulpit.

    It’s beyond clear that he’d be a terrible lawyer, and that he has a terrible morality. If he were an engineer, I wouldn’t be able to trust his professional opinion to be separate from his personal one. If Israel was wanting to buy our green energy product, and the deal fell through, I couldn’t know if he purposely tanked the deal or there were other issues. Not to mention, their causality is totally insane. When you have equipment failures or process events, if the reactor fails, the reactor fails. Something may have caused it to fail, but the reactor is still what failed, and you need to look into if the reactor design needs modification in some way. You can’t say the root cause of the failure was something before the reactor and then totally ignore the reactor.

    What a fucking idiot.

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      1 year ago

      They have very pointedly not made a condemnation of the Hamas attack which killed innocent people and took them hostage.

      Not only is there absolutely no condemnation - that entire text is a justification of the mass murder of 1,200 people.

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        1 year ago

        Would you like to elaborate on why disliking the murder of innocents and the conflating of all Palestinians with Hamas is disagreeable to you?