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And like look at this quote. It starts out well, acknowledging that actually living conditions are rapidly improving throughout most of Africa. But then? Like, some kind of weird Trumpian turn: It's tough! So Tough! Really Tough!pic.twitter.com/2KIPx6S7po
Also I want to return to his quote about navigable waterways. That's bollocks. Africa has numerous navigable waterways... and strangely enough, the areas with the most navigable waterways in Africa are the worst off!
Why? Oh I dunno.... maybe because colonial powers liked navigable waterways and so colonial exploitation and the slave trade was most intense in areas around navigable waterways. Like, maybe it's the colonialism, stupid.
Also, Gates' argument about premodern African state formation is.... like breath-takingly regressive. The historical view that "Africa just didn't have serious states before colonialism" is some serious white man's burden bullcrap.
Gates' view as expressed is basically: 1. Africa was geographically predestined to economic inferiority 2. Its people never developed meaningful civil institutions on their own 3. The solution is to have fewer Africans in the future Seriously. Read it yourself.
Nothing that some condoms and sterilization won't fix though
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