Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait to HN? We've asked you several times before. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to have to ban you.
If we don't do everything we can to help millions of people somewhere in the world, are we racist?
One way to save lives is to actually import people into our homes. We can probably just mandate that everyone reapportion their home such that every 8 feet is another room, and then just start migrating people and moving them into the homes of more fortunate people. From there, if you have enough money to feed them, you will be mandated to do that also. Even if it means lowering the amount of money you allocate to your own family members - so be it. It will save lives.
Well, how does selectively letting third world people suffer deficiencies look to you?
That is what they are doing:- harming people from their WASP bastions.
We should all try to interpret people's intentions as the best possible intentions instead of the worst possible intentions.
I highly doubt it's sremani's intention is to selectively hurt third world people.
I think it's highly likely that sremani instead believes there's some sort of danger in golden rice, and wants to prevent it from contaminating the food supply and the environment. In sremani's view, sremani is saving third world people from that danger.
Instead of calling sremani racist, we'll make more progress by instead giving evidence that there's no danger in golden rice and that it will help people.
In just the last week or so, in two separate incidents, an Asian woman student at a college was denounced as a white supremacist publicly by a student group, and a minority owned and run business was called white supremacist by a member of congress.
Also published in the New York Times was a piece about how two kids of one minority beating up another minority kid was the fault of white people, because they were acting out of whiteness. I quote:
"Instead of asking what the boys’ reported racial identity tells us about the nature of the attack, we should see the boys as enacting American whiteness through anti-black assault in a very traditional way."
Basically, in America at least, if you express an opinion that isn't ideologically pure enough, that makes you a white supremacist. Our public discourse is so completely twisted by redefining words that I don't have much hope at all for bringing people together in good faith discussion. All that is left is to attack.
