Re:Bill Gates-led $1B energy fund expands startup portfolio ...
by drited on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:26PM
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'It's ludicrous to think good ideas only come from North America and white males'
That's a straw man argument because I did not assert that (and obviously wouldn't because it would be a stupid thing to think).
Maybe he thought your question was piercing because it implied you suspected he was racist or sexist or not concerned with gender and race bias.
Fwiw I'm from one of the excluded categories. I think they should just focus on tackling carbon reduction as they see best fit. If they achieve their mission it'll benefit every man, woman and child on earth. It's unreasonable to expect them to be omniscient. They are a small fund with a small sample of investments. Skew doesn't necessarily mean they have gender or race bias.
Elevating isn't their goal. Reducing carbon is. If we don't do that, there may be no races left to worry about equalising.
That's a straw man argument because I did not assert that (and obviously wouldn't because it would be a stupid thing to think).
Maybe he thought your question was piercing because it implied you suspected he was racist or sexist or not concerned with gender and race bias.
Fwiw I'm from one of the excluded categories. I think they should just focus on tackling carbon reduction as they see best fit. If they achieve their mission it'll benefit every man, woman and child on earth. It's unreasonable to expect them to be omniscient. They are a small fund with a small sample of investments. Skew doesn't necessarily mean they have gender or race bias.
Elevating isn't their goal. Reducing carbon is. If we don't do that, there may be no races left to worry about equalising.