Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Under Fire For Tweeting About Myanmar Vacation While Ignoring Rohingyas

These past couple of months, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been taking a bit of breather from the daily business of the social media platform, instead to focus on meeting the people on it. Unfortunately, he may be meeting the wrong kind of people, as evidenced by his tweets.

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Dorsey came under fire from various angles after a tweet he posted this Sunday, about his birthday celebration. He talked about forgoing a drink or hefty meal in favour of the Buddhist mediation form of Vipassana for the day. So, how do you piss people off doing that? Well...

For my birthday this year, I did a 10-day silent vipassana meditation, this time in Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar ??. We went into silence on the night of my birthday, the 19th. Here¡¯s what I know ??

— jack (@jack) December 9, 2018

You see the problem here is that Dorsey is, in a massive thread, describing the "people full of joy he found in Myanmar during his stay. Unfortunately, he seems to have glossed over the massive genocide also taking place in the countries, with Rohingya Muslims being displaced, persecuted, and killed. Clearly, people didn't approve of that.

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Since then, Dorsey has been called tone-deaf, entitled, and worse. Understandably so, considering the country's military leaders have been abusing both Facebook and Twitter to inflame the prejudice and violence against the local Muslims. At least a million of the Rohingya have already been pushed out of Myanmar so far.

A technology icon like Dorsey promoting travel to Myanmar while ignoring its human rights abuse is indeed incredibly damaging, especially when guys like him, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and more have obtained celebrity status. At best, it's irresponsible and draws positive attention to a country in desperate need of a critical eye. At worst, it indicates the head of Twitter doesn't care who's hurt by his platform's negligence, as long as it lets him go on vacation to "hack "the deepest layer of the mind and reprogram it."