The recent attacks in Paris have reignited a contentious debate about border control and the migration crisis in Europe.
As a way to combat those speaking out against allowing refugees into their country, some people on Twitter have begun resharing a viral image of Steve Jobs.
In September 2015, amid news surrounding a devastating photo of a drowned toddler, one tech entrepreneur sought to remind people of what migrants could one day achieve, if only provided the opportunity.
David Galbraith tweeted out a black-and-white photo of Steve Jobs, with the caption "A Syrian migrants' child."
The tweet has over 14,000 retweets and 7,500 likes. Galbraith is referring to Jobs' biological father.
In his 2011 biography of the Apple cofounder, Walter Isaacson detailed Jobs' parentage. He was born to a then unmarried couple, Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali. Schieble was an American graduate student; Jandali was a teaching assistant from a prominent Syrian family. Jandali had come to the US to pursue a doctoral degree.
The couple gave their infant son up for adoption in San Francisco. The adopted parents were Paul Jobs and Clara Hagopian. They named the child Steve.
Hagopian was born in New Jersey and was also the child of immigrants. As Isaacson explains, "her parents had landed after fleeing the Turks in Armenia."
Galbraith's tweet is a condensed version of this story.
Back in September, he discussed the virality of the tweet with The Chicago Tribune. "I did have a hunch the Tweet would go viral," he said. "Because it used few words, stated fact not opinion, defied stereotypes and had an iconic picture."
With a new wave of attention, this example doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon.
