Warren Levitan

Love for family, friends, outdoors, fine cocktails, great digital experiences. Founder @ Cards & Treasure, co-founder @ Smooch (Zendesk).

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

@KevinVuongxMP Montreal. Not pro-Palestine or Hamas crowd. People and peace loving Iranian people.

[Tahmineh Dehbozorgi @DeTahmineh]

The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world.

Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime.

Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it.

Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine.

This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased.

By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely.

There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues.

As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises.

Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically.

This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language.

Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape.

That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored.

So the silence continues.

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

We are not what we say. We are not what we think. We are not even what we believe. We are what we do.

So go do, you shining lights of wonder!

- Rachel Polin-Goldberg

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

@mimurchison @davehariri I met @mimurchison in late 2016 and agreed 100% with his vision. Timing is hard to predict but since ‘16 they held course to the OG vision and very quickly and constantly adapted to the evolving AI landscape. I would not bet on anyone else. Brands not using Ada are missing out.

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

@gozmike And a great table to celebrate… have sat there just a few times 😋

[Mike Murchison @mimurchison]

Ada mentioned on Monday .com earnings call:

“We deployed a third-party GenAl chatbot for managing chat-based customer service tickets, yielding impressive results. The chatbot has resolved around 50% of customer service tickets automatically”

And even better results coming around the corner

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

6:29AM

October 7, 2023.

The moment time stopped.

Beeri. Nahal Oz. Nir Oz. Reim. The Nova Festival. Kfar Aza. Sderot. Ofakim. Nirim. Holit. Zikim. Ashkelon.

We remember the victims.

We pray for the return of the hostages.

#RememberOctober7

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

@mimurchison @gozmike Only to have unicorn poke him in the eye.

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

@BillAckman Bill, respect you a ton and hope you had privileged inside access to thoroughly fact check here. If not, your platform is too big to spread unconfirmed info of this nature. https://t.co/3WpASQ8zdC

[Hayder Alasadi 海得🎗️ @1AlasadiHayder]

⚠️ Iraqi 🇮🇶 view in the ICJ ruling on Israel.

The ICJ “ruling” is biased, one-sided & absolutely wrong! It comes at a time where Israel 🇮🇱 is being attacked by Iranian 🇮🇷 regime, H*izbullah, H*amas, H*outhis & all other Iran’s backed ter*rorists, & it also comes after the greatest massacre of innocent Jews since the Holocaust at the hands of H*amas barbarians.
This “ruling” trying to take the right to defend itself from #Israel 🇮🇱, weaken not only the worlds only Jewish country, but the whole Middle East region in the face of extremism, while reducing the chances of peace between Arabs & Jews, & encouraging the Palestinian Authority to continue its baseless claims & its support for “Pay for Slay”!
as Iraqi 🇮🇶, I stand with my Jewish cousins against this unacceptable “ruling” & I wish Israel to dismantle the ter*rorists & bring back the hostages home safe.

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

@davehariri I've spent near a lifetime working in support and CX. No one else is doing this with quality like this. Bravo.

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

@jeffiel Massive respect for Jeff, the company and team he built.

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

@BillAckman @Harvard @MIT @Penn Have jihadists kidnapped a member of their families and they are being coerced? They want calls for genocide to turn into conduct before they act? That’s like police waiting for someone to pull the trigger of a gun before arresting someone. These must be silent cries for help.

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

@BillAckman Believe this is the original post in Hebrew https://t.co/QrjHcvZXPy

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

This thread reveals the absolute pathetic nature of traditional media that even intelligent people believe they can trust. It is too much.

[David Collier @mishtal]

Exclusive: We need to talk about international news media.

Something has gone seriously wrong in the way news is reported from Gaza. Many mainstream outlets have become lying puppets for an Islamist terror group.

I don't want to tell you - I want to show you.

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[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

If your will is to live in peace and to have a better future for your children, do the humanitarian deed immediately and share verified and valuable information about hostages being held in your area. The Israeli military assures you that it will invest maximum effort in providing security for you and your home, and you will receive a financial reward. We guarantee you complete confidentiality.

The contact details are:
Secure phone call: *8619
Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal: [phone]

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

Experience the personal stories from Oct 7 Holocaust in Southern Israel. Shaylee asked that this be shared. Courtesy of my friend Bruce currently travelling Israel. ❤️
https://t.co/yyecF5poL6

[Warren Levitan @wlevitan]

Watch & share this clear presentation of the battle Israel faces vs Hamas and why the world must stand with Israel. This does not suggest that Palestinian lives are worth less than Israeli lives in any way. Only the need to be against Hamas.
https://t.co/nfMQUD0KFk