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> They live in another country so they don't deserve the same rights we superior americans do, right? It goes beyond that. People don't care Palantir tried to
by peruvian 6y ago
> They live in another country so they don't deserve the same rights we superior americans do, right?
It goes beyond that. People don't care Palantir tried to do predictive policing via ML in the US because the suspected criminals were poor POC.
- cwwc 6y agoThis may be true - but while at the SEC I used Palantir extensively on finance people (usually WASPS in the upper echelons). Was it used in a different way? Yes, likely. But still - it isn't limited to policing and war.
- tp23 6y agoOK, but the work in this case drove investigations and evidence, not a drone strike into their family home. Lets not muddy the discussion, WASPs in Connecticut dont have to worry about Palantir as much as a random brown person in Asia.
- cwwc 6y agoVery true. In the rare case (very, very rare), jail time. But comparatively -- yes, I agree with your point, it is nothing.
- mc32 6y agoDo you think they’d have misgivings if it were a terrorist in Bosnia? I don’t think his color comes into it. It’s as if in WWII we were like, oh noes, they’re wasps (ignore Bavaria for a moment) don’t shoot! Or with Russians today, oh noes, don’t make them into all powerful boogeymen. Not everything in the world is about color. The military does not care who the enemy is, they engage without mercy as is the case in war or conflict.
- peruvian 6y agoYou're correct it's not just about color, it's also about class (IMO it's mostly about class, not just within America but the Global South as a class entirely as well).