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As a mixed man (half North African, half Western European) this comes across as needlessly antagonistic. There’s nothing in the article to indicate that this wa
by atdrummond 5y ago
As a mixed man (half North African, half Western European) this comes across as needlessly antagonistic. There’s nothing in the article to indicate that this was picked due to the race of these inventors nor is there any immediately clear indication of unconscious racism.
I know I’m probably biting at obvious flame bait here but this comment doesn’t really seem to be in the spirit of this site’s goals for quality discourse.
- paganel 5y ago> There’s nothing in the article to indicate that this was picked due to the race That's the worst type of racism, the one so well internalised that you don't realise is there, that's what makes it more dangerous compared to the "redneck"-out-in-your-face variety. I'm pretty sure that the author of article wasn't aware of his/her implicit euro-centric bias, he/she comes from a culture where things like "fundamental physics" are seen as representative of the group's intellectual nous (where the "group" ~= people raised up/educated in an euro-centric culture with euro-centric values), and hence as representative of the world/humanity as a whole. I take issue with this "the bestest thing made by white men" -> "the bestest thing made by humanity" transition.