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JuniperMesos • today at 11:44 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> It is. Education has been an excuse for discrimination for a long time. When you describe a whole demographic as being uneducated you are applying exactly the kind of rhetoric which white Rhodesians used to excuse their discrimination[1].

Modern Zimbabwe is not particularly known for having reliable electric infrastructure, even by the low standards of sub-Saharan Africa. This is not a good argument against the parent commenter's point.


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runarberg • today at 2:38 PM

You are putting two completely unrelated parts of my post and putting them together to form an argument I never made.

– “a) The sky is blue and b) there are rocks in the ground.”

– “Aha, gotcha. You claimed there are rocks in the sky; there are none.”