Is that a real reason for saying he has no concern about South Africa. I mean personal reasons can be good and they can be bad, but it’s a shaky argument for me.
Surely he should just resent the white South Africans who bullied him.
Trying to go to Mars seems more crazy an idea to me than trying to fix Africa which has potential to feed the world and still has abundant space.
Not my money and we don’t have much of an audience with tech billionaires outside, but if I had a minute that’s what I would say.
Slight modification- he went to a school which at the time was a predominantly white suburban school
They were government schools intended under apartheid to cater to certain communities . I accept the correction.
He went to a model c school.
The point is - since when does bullying at school by a small group of people make you hate a whole country ?
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I am not sure about these unilateral decisions by social media networks.
Especially in anticipation of future behavior.
They do this for someone we hate or someone who is hated, next thing hey could be doing it for someone who they disagree with.
I don’t think the left should have this level of control of popular culture and the global media. I am beginning to see a chilling effect on some speech.
It’s almost as if, if you don’t think like the New York Times & Hollywood influencers then there is a risk of being silenced
It’s the unilateral and arbitrary nature of these decisions by institutions we have no way of holding to account with no recourse I worry about.
I keep going back to this thought - Twitter could have blocked Malcolm X and Martin Luther King with this level of power.
If you want to criticize Trump in a local context do it right.
Call out the people who don’t see color. Call out the people who went to meet Ted Cruz to lie about a non existent white genocide. Call out those who share racist cartoons.
Call out those who pray for the return of Botha.
Call out those who say apartheid was not a crime against humanity. Those who want to display the apartheid flag and preserve racist statues of Cecil Rhodes.
We must be able to separate example from principle.
I have a concern about the unilateral and sometimes arbitrary censorship powers of the main social media platforms.
In instances outside of Trump this could be harmful.
Silicon Valley tech companies are not diverse. They are not informed about global issues and they lack contextual understanding of many local discussions.
3.4 percent of the Facebook leadership is black. 1.7% works in the technical departments coding etc.
Twitter is similar.
So I am actually wondering if Twitter and Facebook would ban Malcolm X, Martin Luther King?
What happens when the thoughts being expressed are not in the interests of the West, of Silicon Valley , of Liberal Elites but are correct and fairly made