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Many people seem to discount pollution etc that only affects brown-ish people far away that they personally don't know. And guess in which places these kind of
by DamonHD 1y ago
Many people seem to discount pollution etc that only affects brown-ish people far away that they personally don't know. And guess in which places these kind of stunts are commonly pulled? You wouldn't plonk an illegally fume-belching data centre in a rich white 'hood even if there was plenty of electricity, because political power is the key lever.
(I am a 'rich' white western man, FWIW.)
- rbanffy 1y agoYou make a great point - pollution sources are often located on cheap land that's occupied, predominantly, by poor people, which, in most of the world, correlates with non-whites. Would something like Flint have happened in Scarsdale or Los Altos? Of course not.
- dotancohen 1y agoSo this is an economic issue, not a race issue. The two are correlated (everything is correlated to something in a complex system), but to reduce the issue the actual economic factors are to be considered. Not the racial factors. Or would it be fine if xAI were polluting a poor white neighbourhood?
- DamonHD 1y agoWe shouldn't be dumping pollution selectively in poor places at all. But it is not coincidence: there is a lot of systematic racism (and other discrimination) in the world and in the US on top of that, that keeps not-white (and not 'Christian', not het, not male, not English-speaking) people not rich. The variables are not independent. Skin colour is prominent in treating some humans as less than human.
- dotancohen 1y agoWell I'm three of your "not"s, my grandfather was a slave, and I still don't see this as a race issue.