No, you were correct. I was defending him. The other posters have a right to think what they think and honestly, I can’t pretend I care about Palestine or any other social issue. Do I think what’s happening there is wrong? Yeah, but not to the point that I care or will be upset at a Somali person who works for an Israeli company or something. Sorry if you disagree but I just don’t have in me to care.
The honesty is killing me lol,
I’m focusing on this through an ethnic lens because that’s what this is about. It’s not nice but race & ethnicity are at the forefront of everything. If this guy was a muslim of any other ethnicity, he wouldn’t be getting as much hate. There’s nothing wrong with noticing that people are more likely to hold certain groups to a higher moral standard and will feel comfortable attacking them in a way they wouldn’t do with others. This man is the poster boy of muslims who work for unethical companies now despite the fact that there are barely any Somalis working there.
Race and ethnicity are not at the forefront of everything, I just think it is for you and a bunch of other people who I also think you hyper focus on while ignoring people who don’t view everything through race and then use those people to justifying also viewing everything through a racial lense. There is nothing wrong with noticing that certain groups are hold to a higher moral standard, that’s true, but to mention it on a post about a random guy working a morally questionable job, is very weird, especially since I’m sure the guy who posted it doesn’t hold somalis to a higher moral standard, neither do most people, and the people who were saying racist remarks weren’t saying it because they hold somalis to a higher standard but rather they already have their own opinion on us and just used that guy as a shield to justify it.
My point is that we are a minority within a minority but manage to become the face of stuff of like this. The average Somali supports Palestine and goes to protests; there have been many Somalis who were fired for their pro-Palestine views or receive hate for their views (for example, Ilhan Omar, she even got racist comments from the same Palestinians she was supporting, they weren’t diaspora either but Palestinians in Palestine). I’m not seeing twitter posts about any of that; when we do something positive or try & raise awareness/help others nobody cares but when one of us makes a mistake everyone focuses on us & we’re all expected to take the blame because of another Somali person’s mistakes.
We manage to become the face of stuff like this because of Somalis themselves, That guy who posted that was out of pocket for doing so, it is his fault. I think that last sentence applies to every single ethnic group, certain people always focus on negatives and ignore positives, I think alot of the things you guys complain about on here happen with other ethnic groups. You just interact with Somalis and are mostly in Somali spaces so you don’t see it, neither do they, and they say the exact same thing, for the same reason.
Do you think it’s a coincidence that Somalis end up being the poster child for every negative thing?
it’s not, it’s Somali themselves who like to scream about these things.
. It’s exhausting seeing Somalis be rational & nuanced when it comes to others when people do not give us that same grace back.
I’ve had that “same grace” extended to me multiple times, there’s plentry of Ajanbis who give Somalis grace and are more rational, there’s plenty of nice non-Somalis out there, once again using other people’s bad behaviour to justify your own
If a Somali person commits a crime, I’m not going to defend them but if I see people attacking them purely because they’re Somali then yes I’ll comment on it. There’s a difference between people calling someone out because they think what they’re doing is wrong and calling them out because they want to justify their racism behind an sjw lens which is what’s happening with this man. If someone posted screenshots of linkedin pages of different muslims working for these kinda companies and he was included I wouldn’t care because it’s obvious that they’re attacking everyone and aren’t focusing on a singular person. But this man has been hated on since the original tweet in 2023.
You said “Arabs and Asians are smart enough to protect their own” i Said I’m not gonna protect someone just because their Somali, I don’t know what this whole paragraph is supposed to counter.
It’s small things like this that normalize racism. People think we’re all collectively responsible for the actions of other Somalis which is why I made it about his ethnicity.
No one aside from a stupid person thinks we’re all responsible for the actions of other somalis, your wording to me is very weird, you make it sound as if most people think like that, when they don’t, social media exaggerates these kind of things, especially on twitter (where it was originally posted).
. We live in a world were people will always hyper focus on your racial background. It isn’t nice but it’s the world we live in. You can be a morally decent person and not focus on race or ethnicity but that won’t stop others from doing so. We have to pushback against stuff like this because it’s just weird asf posting someone’s info like this in the first place
No one said don’t push back against it, and no one said it wasn’t weird to post the guys info,
This is why ajanabis feel confident asking people about qabil or SL vs Somalia or other weird comments. People are very overfamiliar with us and it’s wrong.
People do the same about a bunch of other countries to, but yeah I agree it’s wrong, but I think being overfamiliar with us is a lot more harmless than you guys make it seem.
. I don’t blame ajanabis for this, I blame the Somalis like Libaan and all the others who justify it by saying
Agreed , I’m replying as I’m reading so sorry because I mentioned this above, lol.
