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Re:The racist double standards of international development by trabant00 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:02AM (#23832049)
> If Bill Gates saved even one African child's life,how many people can say the same, even in Africa or the "global south"?

While Bill Gates saved numerous people in poor countries (not only Africa) he doesn't do nearly enough to start important conversations on racial issues /s

Really, fuck the guy who wrote this article. Bill Gates is untouchable. But not many are and they can be scared into not getting involved with sensitive issues for the fear of being attacked in this matter. This kind of shit journalism is actively scaring people from making a difference, as small as they can.

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Re:The racist double standards of international development by jahaja on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:24AM (#23832305)
The idea is to focus on solving the cause not the symptoms.

Should a philanthropic King that still supports and perpetuates absolute monarchy be honored for his gifts (which themselves ultimately are created by his subjects labour)?

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Re:The racist double standards of international development by badrabbit on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:47AM (#23833322)
Yes,yes he should be so long has his gifts feed a starving person and save them from dying. What would you have him do? Fund a rebel movement and start a civil war to overthrow the monarch? Well CIA did plenty of that type of "philantrophy" and I think the result speaks for itself.
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Re:The racist double standards of international development by jahaja on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:17PM (#23833778)
You can't see how superficial that is?
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Re:The racist double standards of international development by badrabbit on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:24PM (#23839337)
No, i cannot see how being glad there is less suffering and death is superficial
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Re:The racist double standards of international development by jahaja on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:33PM (#23839410)
The King is the cause of the suffering. To partly alleviate it is not a noble act.
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Re:The racist double standards of international development by trabant00 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:54AM (#23832648)
> The idea is to focus on solving the cause not the symptoms.

No. The idea it to shut up and put in actual work. Until you do that you have no clue what the causes or the symptoms are.

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Re:The racist double standards of international development by jahaja on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:03AM (#23832750)
So your suggestion is to shut up and be happy?
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