What is performative about this? Not wanting to spend your money on someone that gloats online about meeting with a wanted war criminal is not performative at all.
Yes I know nothing is performative about this and each day I get a little less hopeful around the VC circle and I genuinely don't understand why he would do something so horrible knowing the backlash but even without knowing, like is taking the side of literal children so hard in this world and why...
I am just out of words frankly for him. I just know that this thing isn't going to fly and would impact vercel as a whole, maybe they might even fear him if they could, I suppose.
Whether or not it results in change, there's value in at least being true to your own ethics and refusing to financially support people and companies that are doing things you think are wrong.
In the short term, may be not.
In the short term, it allows those not wanting to financially support people who overlook a genocide.
In the long term, hopefully this can lead to financial sanctions on Israel itself.
Either of those isn't performative. And if either of those didn't play out, then at least their conscience was clear in knowing they did what they could, as little as it may have been.
