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https://time.com/6326312/watermelon-palestinian-symbol-solidarity/ https://time.com/6326312/watermelon-palestinian-symbol-solid... appears to have the answer.
by dubcanada 3y ago
https://time.com/6326312/watermelon-palestinian-symbol-solidarity/ https://time.com/6326312/watermelon-palestinian-symbol-solid... appears to have the answer.
But I will say I completely disagree, nobody owns a symbol and I don't think it's acceptable to allocate emojis to specific events.
- kleiba 3y agoDisagree with what?
- dubcanada 3y agoI made my point in my comment, things are not just one meaning. Emojis do not just have one meaning. Words do not have one meaning (most of the time). Nobody would equate a watermelon for open source copilot for code analysis as being anti-Palestine or pro-Palestine or anti-Israel or pro-Israel. I don't understand why it was even brought up.
- kleiba 3y agoYou've made your points, sure. But by doing so, you're also implicitly attributing the opposite of your opinion to me, which is not fair. > Nobody would equate a watermelon for open source copilot for code analysis as being anti-Palestine or pro-Palestine or anti-Israel or pro-Israel. How could you even know what other people would equate with what?
- fsckboy 3y agoto round out the story of the symbology, the other flags/placards being waved in that photo are "sabra" cactuses, prickly pears, available in green and red with a sweet fruit. "Sabra" is a common Israeli self-epithet, to mean something like "we are like sabras, prickly on the outside, sweet on the inside"; so those protesters are sending a "unity" sort of message by waving both. https://www.greenprophet.com/wp-content/uploads/blur-botanical-cacti-191923.jpg https://www.greenprophet.com/wp-content/uploads/blur-botanic...