I said in my comment that Europeans made it worse. I was just saying that those places were never peaceful to begin with.

The thing is averages don’t mean shit when you’re talking about individual people, because individual experiences always deviate from the average, especially if you talk about average wealth where a few millionaires and billionaires skew the data for a lot of poor people.

But sure, let’s follow your logic. Black people on average are poorer and have worse jobs, so we need to discriminate in their favour.

Well, statistically there is also a lot of evidence that black people on average commit more crimes than white people.

So should I be scared of a black person I cross on the street? Following your logic, yes. Following mine, no.

Ah yes, selective discrimination based on race and gender is anti-racist and anti-sexist. So glad we advanced as a society enough for this to make sense in some people’s heads…

We live in a time where there are black people that experienced extreme wealth in their lives and white people that know nothing other than extreme poverty (this one has always existed), and to take nothing of that into consideration other than just the skin color is idiotic.

But hey, thank you for admitting that it isn’t actually about improving productivity and output at companies, but just to tick percentage boxes so that your virtue signaling intake is filled for the day.

Didn’t say it was.

But here specifically I’m refering to optimization, as in changes the manufacturer did to either streamline the production and make it more efficient (cheaper) or to differentiate from similar products to make it more appealing.

Surely you chose your devices on some sort of criterea and other people would come to a different choice.

This I believe can only happen under capitalism.

Wait wait, do you think the rest of the world was in perfect harmony until the white man came?

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

Where the fuck do you think African slaves came from? Most europeans didn’t enslave them, they just bought them in the well established african slave markets after other africans and arabs enslaved them first.

In North America, do you think the indians only started scalping when the europeans appeared, or that it was a common practice in tribes that were at constant war with each other?

In South Africa a lot of the land europeans got was payment from tribes for help fighting other tribes.

Did europeans cause extra suffering in the places they colonized? Definitly.

Were those places peaceful before that? Fuck off.

You are using an open source platform, developed without a profit incentive, running on one of the most impactful publicly-funded infrastructure developments of our lifetimes, which is also powered by near countless free-and-open-source tech stacks.

I can almost guarantee every single physical thing you used to type that was the product of capitalism based optimization.

What a fucking brain dead take.

How is wanting to treat individuals like… ACTUAL FUCKING INDIVIDUALS and not generic groups based on their appearance nazi-like behaviour?

If anything, it’s the opposite of what a nazi would do.

The diversity that creates that is diversity of thought and life experiences.

To me, the idea that you can just fill boxes with people from x race or x gender on the base that that characteristic is what determines what I mentioned above, is one of the most racist and sexist things someone can do.

Meanwhile on the UK people are being arrested for saying things that MIGHT be offensive to someone out there.