Nora 🐀🍉

Is he a squirrel?

Many people are understandably angry about this picture so I will respond! Of course I do not support Israel or the genocide of Palestine and the war crimes in Lebanon. I have made tweets about this already, though maybe not frequent enough and for that I’m sorry. I was at the airport with barely any time to get food, Starbucks was the only thing open on my side of the airport (literally 5am), Starbucks is not on the BDS boycott list (but google, amazon, and intel are, as well as chevron, which just sponsored twitchcon, an event that many content creators including myself went to). It’s not as if I’m a frequent Starbucks customer or I support anything they are doing. I posted this picture because I had just gone through something terrible as I quoted in the post and I wanted to feel better about it. I had a minute in the bathroom before I was going to be late for my plane so no time to put anything down, no time to do multiple pictures, no time to think about what I’m holding. Actually the only thing I was thinking about was how sad I was because it had been so long since someone called me that. So commenting on it that I’m a horrible piece of shit for holding Starbucks without knowing any of the context, on a post where I’m being very vulnerable, is rude and tone-deaf and I will block you for that! I support Palestine, and I support activism to help them too. I just believe that this kind of activism, where you crucify someone no matter the context and call them horrible things because they bought a drink at Starbucks, or they use google or Amazon, or they accidentally ordered pizza from papa John’s or dominoes without knowing they’re on the boycott list, or they have an intel cpu (how far do we go with this?) or they went to twitchcon, or they play a blizzard game, is a waste of time and energy. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. if you play Overwatch for example, and many of those that are commenting these hateful things do, you’re supporting blizzard, a company that has been filed against for continued sexual harassment of their female employees and a company that banned a player and both casters interviewing him because he spoke up about the Hong Kong protests. If you’ve ever eaten at chik fil a, they frequently donate money to anti-lgbt organizations. But I’m not going to be angry at someone solely for playing Overwatch or for eating at chik fil a, because you can do these things while condemning what they’re doing and while still supporting what you believe in. I’m for unions, I’m for lgbtq rights, I’m for Palestine and Lebanon, im for women’s rights, and I donate money to all of these causes frequently. I believe that donating has more impact than semantics like this on twitter. Thank you for reading, love u all ❤️