genoapol

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by genoapol 6y ago
Don't bring drugs into Asia and expect to have a good time. This is one area that being ignorant of history can get one executed.
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by genoapol 6y ago
Western citizens have to recognize the hypocrisy of these stands eventually, don't they?
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by genoapol 6y ago
Sounds like what the US & Canada did to Meng Wanzhou.
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by genoapol 6y ago
It doesn't make logical sense. I suspect this misuse is due to the early 12th-16th century English population's ignorance of the complexity of global spice markets and black pepper being one of the first popularized spices once tr
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by genoapol 6y ago
I suspect it's being pointed out that racial discrimination doesn't just start at age 30 when applying for a job at Google, it impacts many key points of development and opportunity along the way. Perhaps true support of black fou
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by genoapol 6y ago
>OK. Well, I've been using it wrong then :) You are actually correct, it's the English that use the word wrong. Spicey should be a measure of the variety of spices used... A very small % of people from spice rich countries woul
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by genoapol 6y ago
>China has nation-wide policoes about fertility (the one child policy and its regional variations) so it's not clear if the Uighurs are especially singled out or simply punished for not respecting a national law. The interesting fac
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by genoapol 6y ago
>We need more love in the world, we need to give people the space to be ignorant or wrong without being evil so we can welcome them out of the darkness instead of forcing them into it. I agree with this sentiment but history shows how qu
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by genoapol 6y ago
New fingerprinting technique or clipboard data used to expand a user's shadow profile?
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by genoapol 6y ago
>doesn't validate this system one bit. . India springs to mind as a good 1:1 comparison candidate and it seems to be doing much worse than China in most economic metrics.
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by genoapol 6y ago
Uighurs weren't just randomly targeted, separatists carried out dozens, if not more, heinous terrorist acts that killed and injured thousands of innocent people. HK citizens generally don't have a history of such activities.
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by genoapol 6y ago
I think the key issues are primarily related to race. Many see these systems as a way to implement stop-and-frisk (quite racist outcomes) and worse across the country using AI/ML as cover. The higher error rate amongst darker skin peop
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by genoapol 6y ago
Without MCAS wouldn't the plane be unbalanced due to engine placement issues and excess weight? From my understanding, the MCAS system was built to offset these problematic default states that come with using an old body not compatible
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by genoapol 6y ago
>Just because China is able to catch-up some of the growth that it completely missed out on due to the turmoil of the Communist revolution and the turbulent 50s and 60s, doesn't validate this system one bit. Other countries were ahe
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by genoapol 6y ago
"For Africans to be considered reverse racists, they would have to rob Europeans to the point of poverty/death, enslave them for 400+ years, attempt multiple genocides and mass executions of the European people, deprive Europeans
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by genoapol 6y ago
I feel like we are doing them a favor by stopping their use of Windows and Google Play.
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by genoapol 6y ago
>In promoting racial discrimination against white people Not promoting anything of the sort. These are factual observations of history, any student of history feel free to chime in so we can focus on facts over feelings. >The African
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by genoapol 6y ago
Someone else mentioned what I'm defining more succinctly as "prejudice+power".
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by genoapol 6y ago
>Haitian Revolution, which was a genocide against all whites on the island, including white abolitionists who were fighting alongside the enslaved. Not correct, the Polish that allied with the enslaved Haitains and fought off the French
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by genoapol 6y ago
Rings true, around this period Haiti was indeed the single most expensive piece of real estate on the planet, due to its sugar and coffee output.
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by genoapol 6y ago
Without the math, science, and art imported from the rest of the world to Europe, there would have been no Renaissance. Understanding the rest of the world (Levant, India, Africa, China) during this period is key. For example, during the Re
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by genoapol 6y ago
Most of the poor countries you mention don't have an intentionally created underclass. The economic background and the tremendous intentional income/wealth inequality in the US adds a bit more complexity. In most countries, you wo
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by genoapol 6y ago
Black on black crime should be really labeled poor on poor crime. Also there is something unqiue about the US experience, black people in the UK commit crime at a much lower rate than white people in the US.
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by genoapol 6y ago
I've inquired about this and there are some layers at work that may be oversimplified when kids restate this idea as "acting white". I understand there is an issue in internalizing the 2 main versions (Southern spin vs North
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by genoapol 6y ago
>How can you help people when they don't help themselves. Police just keep a cap on it all so it doesn't take us all down. This whole comment seems to ignore how ghettoization of a population can be purposely done by the state
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by genoapol 6y ago
Slaves were securitized and traded in European markets long after slavery was outlawed. These financial ties make the claim very possible, slaves were part of many wealthy British family's portfolios. Roughly 8-10 million slaves, each
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by genoapol 6y ago
Assange is an Australian citizen and everything you said China does to its citizens s, the US did to Assange. It seems if Assange leaked Chinese government info, as a non-Chinese citizen, he wouldnt be in jail right now. A great feature of
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by genoapol 6y ago
Also a big assumption here is that black people dont plead guilty to crimes they haven't committed at a higher rate than the rest of the population. Ive seen a lot of evidence of black people not being able to fully prove their innocen
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by genoapol 6y ago
Unfortunely the boyfriend didn't kill a police officer. I feel reform of this "no knock/plain clothes/home invasion" policy would be more likely to occur with that outcome.
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by genoapol 6y ago
I hope unpolished technologies that put already marginalized groups in more potentially deadly and unecessary interactions with the police get binned. If anyone has a hard time empathizing here, imagine your kids in the false positive perso

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