2019: the parody is now 2019: the expected response.
“let’s reverse global warming. let’s harness abundant sources of clean energy. let’s master the genome, machine intelligence, the human mind. let’s fall in love and live forever and build a better world for everyone.” “yOu aRe a wHiTE pErSOn!!”https://twitter.com/pixelbeat/status/1167111392094281729 …
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White people dreams go to the back of the bus!
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In the most charitable interpretation I imagine they are saying: “which of these ideas serves all of humanity, which primarily serve the most advanced and privileged people (western world generally)?”
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Not that they took a charitable view either- all of what you listed, if well-applied, benefits the supermajority if people if not more.
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How dare you be white. Its 2019, what were you thinking?
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Eh I mean they aren’t “wrong” it’s definitely easier to think big when you are higher up Maslow’s hierarchy and society has done a fine job of mostly letting white men to the top. We are really only 150 years into taking equality and freedom seriously as values
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My viewpoint here also betrays my western colonialist bias too since I’m privileging European Christian society and it’s standards when China is clearly a mature modern industrial power so Anglo dudes and Chinese dudes in charge of the politburo
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me, a black person literally born in the country facing maybe the most resource-constraining demographic boom of the next 50 years (Nigeria): I still agree with u
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Probably a safe bet. I avoid restaurants / bars with sticky floors and lines. I think as you get older, you find broad stroke rules to live by that work out 9 / 10 times.
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