African tech workers push back on U.S. startup built to help them

Re:African tech workers push back on U.S. startup built to h... by david38 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:01PM (#23787404)

This is common because people in rich countries have no idea what the situation is in other countries.

I remember something similar happened in India. Kids were sewing rugs or something, someone didn’t like it because it looked bad (like a sweatshop) and there was a boycott.

The place went out of business. International investigators later found that 50% of those children had to resort to sex work while a good percentage of the rest ended up doing hard labor jobs and such. It was absolute catastrophe. The white rich people who started the boycott? They just went on with their lives. No significant and realistic effort was made to correct anything by them.

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Re:African tech workers push back on U.S. startup built to h... by sethammons on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:36PM (#23787892)

I upvoted because it is accurate. I wanted to comment that I think you can drop the race part from the comment.

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Re:African tech workers push back on U.S. startup built to h... by bJGVygG7MQVF8c on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:04AM (#23789241)

No, it's essential to what's being communicated.

> Baizuo (/ˈbaɪˌdzwɔː/; Chinese: 白左 báizuǒ, literally White Left) is a derogatory Chinese neologism and political epithet used to refer to Western leftist ideologies primarily espoused by white people.

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