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>the workers are functionally illiterate This is a really bigoted comment that generalizes a whole state. If it would be racist for any random country, eg. '
by nootropicat 4y ago
>the workers are functionally illiterate
This is a really bigoted comment that generalizes a whole state.
If it would be racist for any random country, eg. 'Mexico' or 'Nigeria', why is it ok for an American state?
(no, I'm not from Alabama).
- spoils19 4y agoPrecisely. I've found that people from Alabama are actually more literate and intelligent than your most common worker from a blue state, it just depends on which aspects of life you find more important.
- ok_dad 4y agoThis isn’t a red v blue issue, and we don’t need to reply with tit for tat shaming of the “other side”, it’s a shame that any state has child labor or illiteracy. I have known a lot of smart people from all over, no state or country is better than another. The differences we have are cultural, not ability. (This comment is in response to this whole train wreck of a thread.)
- gunapologist99 4y ago> no state or country is better than another Even though I agree with the thrust of your argument, I'd just like to point out that this is provably inaccurate, depending on which quantifiable axis you're referring to as "better" (i.e., test scores, IQ, lead in the water, whatever.) But, if you're just saying "better" == "humanity", then, sure, I agree with that too.
- datavirtue 4y agoSort of like Amazon's offensive stereotypical framing of Appalachia in Prehiprial? Clearly, no one would ever want to live there. Right, muffy?
- mcculley 4y agoAmazon’s framing? I haven’t yet seen the Amazon adaptation, but when I read Peripheral, I thought it was clear the region Gibson was describing.