Is there something in the water at Microsoft?
Back in April, the company fired two engineers for making a spectacle of themselves by protesting Israel at their 50th anniversary event. This week, some employees set up a temporary, anti-Israel ‘encampment’ to protest.
From Bloomberg, via Yahoo News:
Microsoft Workers Protesting Israel Ties Rally at Company HQMicrosoft Corp. employees rallied at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters in an effort to ratchet up pressure on the software maker to stop doing business with Israel over its war in Gaza.Protesters started gathering Tuesday afternoon at a plaza at the center of a recently redeveloped portion of the company’s main campus, which extends over about 500 acres in the suburban town east of Seattle. They set up tents and declared the space a “liberated zone.”Addressing “friends and colleagues” through a microphone, former Microsoft employee and protest leader Hossam Nasr said: “We are here because over 22 months of genocide, Israel — powered by Microsoft — has been killing, maiming Palestinian children every hour.”About an hour after the activists arrived, a Redmond police officer used his SUV speaker to warn they were trespassing and subject to arrest if they stayed.Soon after, the three dozen or so demonstrators packed up their tents, rolled up their banners and departed the plaza. They reassembled on a slice of sidewalk that organizers said was public property.For more than a year, the Microsoft employee group, No Azure for Apartheid, has been pushing Microsoft to end its relationship with Israel, saying use of the company’s products is contributing to civilian deaths in Gaza. Azure, the company’s cloud-computing division, sells on-demand software and data storage to businesses and governments, including Israeli government and military agencies.
These are supposedly professional adults, acting no differently than progressive activists on a college campus. How do any of them still have their jobs? Take a look at this insanity below.
I am really beginning to wonder if this movement is a form of mass hysteria, not unlike the Salem witch trials. Once this ideology enters a person’s mind, they act out in a way that borders on psychotic rage.
None of it is rational, but it allows adherents to act out dramatically and claim an imagined form of moral superiority. The supporters cannot be reasoned with, and many of them are hysterical young women.
Am I off base for making such a comparison?
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