Comment Re:It's already a failure... (Score 1) 119
if you trade goods, including weapons, without choosing sides, locals get to choose their own path
That will never happen.
if you trade goods, including weapons, without choosing sides, locals get to choose their own path
That will never happen.
If that's what Gates and Zuckerberg are thinking, I commend them for thinking about the long, long term. Anyways, if that's the plan, it's win-win for future software companies and Africa. I suppose US software engineers might lose, but who cares?
And I suppose you understand "the little people".
supplying weapons is meddling
We've already tried step 1 many, many times. We're pretty good at killing warlords and toppling governments. What we aren't good at is filling the power vacuum that follows.
The reason is obvious. Scientific notation is mainly used for approximate results, and integers are exact.
I didn't say religion causes racism. I said religion has been used to justify racism. eg. "Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers"
1. Run for office.
when that fails, go to 2
2. Lobby people in office.
But a bad law IS an excuse from the law. Fuck that shit. Defend free speech!
That is true. It's one of the more useful aspects of religion. But religion has historically been used to justify racism more than fight against racism, so we are better off with some kind of secular humanism. (Call it religion if you want)
I think there are some studies that show that even black cops shoot black people more than white people.
This is how science works. The experiment does not make claims outside of the experimental parameters. If you interpret that as implying some sort of claim about white people versus black people, that's your problem. Go research other studies to fill in the gaps.
What is natural is not the same as what is right. Sure, I can totally accept that the natural inclination of humans is to be racist. We don't have to search to hard in history for cases of tribes annihilating tribes, or nations annihilating nations. It's science, so we should not try to advance beyond this savagery.
I don't think you understand the point of 'political correctness'. The point is not to deny the base nature within you, but to fight it.
Wrong, they are all racists. I know there are some people who think that blacks can't be racist, but you don't earn any points for using them in your argument.
There probably weren't enough black psychology student volunteers from the Italian schools they took data from to generate useful statistics.
My guess is that all people are kind of racist. There are all sorts of studies showing this. Does that make you feel better? Not me...
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