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Facebook tried to pull this shit in India too. Didn't work out. A lot of Facebook execs wrote Twitter posts about how India "threw out the capitalist baby with

Facebook tried to pull this shit in India too. Didn't work out. A lot of Facebook execs wrote Twitter posts about how India "threw out the capitalist baby with the colonial bathwater". Believe it or not those were the exact words.

badRNG 5y ago
Even for Facebook, I'm surprised at how deeply upsetting and tone deaf that comment is coming from them.
- ta988 5y ago
  Wait to hear from Uber execs.
- floor2 5y ago
  Genuine question, can you explain what's upsetting to you about it? To "throw the baby out with the bathwater" is a common idiom in America, meaning roughly to discard something valuable along with other things that are inessential or undesirable. I can't figure out any interpretation of the statement which is offensive, so I'm guessing there's something getting "lost in translation" between countries or cultures here that I'm hoping you can help me understand.
  - licebmi__at__ 5y ago
    Because colonialism is not merely “inessential” nor “undesirable”. I mean, some hyper-nationalist or supremacist groups do feel proud of the colonial history, but if that’s not the case, the phrase just show the ignorance regarding the history of colonialism.
  - darkwater 5y ago
    > I can't figure out any interpretation of the statement which is offensive, so I'm guessing there's something getting "lost in translation" between countries or cultures here that I'm hoping you can help me understand. You can read that sentence as "you are trying to remove colonialism remains but you are kicking out us; we are just capitalists, not colonizers!" while they probably indeed are, or are seen as, colonizers as well.
- bpodgursky 5y ago
  I suspect this came from Indian or Indian-American execs tbqh.
micromacrofoot 5y ago
Getting a peek at how they talk to each other internally is really eye-opening, it's incredible how they've gathered such a large group of people that are completely detached from reality.
datavirtue 5y ago
India literally did that though, and they are still suffering because of it. There are probably more than 100MM people waking up next to a loom in their hut...that they work each day,all day, making fine cloth for subsistence wages.

badRNG 5y ago

Even for Facebook, I'm surprised at how deeply upsetting and tone deaf that comment is coming from them.

ta988 5y ago
Wait to hear from Uber execs.
floor2 5y ago
Genuine question, can you explain what's upsetting to you about it? To "throw the baby out with the bathwater" is a common idiom in America, meaning roughly to discard something valuable along with other things that are inessential or undesirable. I can't figure out any interpretation of the statement which is offensive, so I'm guessing there's something getting "lost in translation" between countries or cultures here that I'm hoping you can help me understand.
- licebmi__at__ 5y ago
  Because colonialism is not merely “inessential” nor “undesirable”. I mean, some hyper-nationalist or supremacist groups do feel proud of the colonial history, but if that’s not the case, the phrase just show the ignorance regarding the history of colonialism.
- darkwater 5y ago
  > I can't figure out any interpretation of the statement which is offensive, so I'm guessing there's something getting "lost in translation" between countries or cultures here that I'm hoping you can help me understand. You can read that sentence as "you are trying to remove colonialism remains but you are kicking out us; we are just capitalists, not colonizers!" while they probably indeed are, or are seen as, colonizers as well.
bpodgursky 5y ago
I suspect this came from Indian or Indian-American execs tbqh.

micromacrofoot 5y ago

Getting a peek at how they talk to each other internally is really eye-opening, it's incredible how they've gathered such a large group of people that are completely detached from reality.

datavirtue 5y ago

India literally did that though, and they are still suffering because of it. There are probably more than 100MM people waking up next to a loom in their hut...that they work each day,all day, making fine cloth for subsistence wages.