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Iwasondigg ,

You can take the boy out of apartheid South Africa, but you can’t take apartheid South Africa out of the boy.

WarmSoda , (edited )

Why would you post the same news that was already posted here - the next day?

kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/630598

lemmy.world/post/8314346

You know it’s a day old already. Obviously someone already posted about it when it was new news. And if you scroll down a tiny tiny amount you can see other posts.

Rapidcreek OP ,

Well, you see everybody’s timeline is different and they see them at different times. Hope that answers your question.

WarmSoda ,

You can’t see those two posts?
Your entire Lemmy experience is somehow 24 hours behind everybody else?

So why aren’t all of your comments a day after the posts your commenting on

Rapidcreek OP ,

Somehow your whining still hasn’t made it to my ears.

WarmSoda ,

People already complain about seeing multiple posts because of cross posting, and your over here reposting.

Did you learn that on Reddit?

bus_go_fast ,

Neil DeGrasse Tyson said recently about Elon, “let the guy be.” It’s really sick how people defend this guy. I guess DeGrasse is worried about his following, or he has his blinders on!

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Wow, seriously? I have always had a pretty neutral opinion of him (I did not like his version of Cosmos at all, but I like science education), but that sure tips things in one direction.

bus_go_fast ,

Yeah, he’s dog shit to me now.

Tyson blamed outrage for Musk’s words on “cancel culture,” which he defines as “There’s this one thing you did, therefore I didn’t like anything you did.” He starts his defense of Musk by positing:

“Suppose Hitler actually invented a cure for cancer. What do you do? Do you use the cure for cancer?”

www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/…/ar-AA1bhpda

Also, this tweet was from 2020, but I thought it was funny.

twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1237765647012159488

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Ouch.

Unaware7013 ,

And just like that, any respect I still had for Tyson evaporated in an instant.

NOT_RICK ,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Suppose Hitler invented a cure for cancer? What a dumb hypothetical. The Nazis already invented something useful, rockets and jets. We used them, they were still huge dickheads.

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

https://a.thumbs.redditmedia.com/UhYNLpa218iDKeX_2HMpUom5Z9YM7fVBIp2JFRMsp10.jpg

Rapidcreek OP ,

All you need to know about the guy. What a Boer

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

If I thought Americans knew anything about world history (we barely get taught American history), that would be a great name to start calling him by. Extremely fitting.

Rapidcreek OP ,

Yeah, I did hang out with South Africans too long. One thing, though, swearing in Afrikaans is really special.

nicetriangle ,

Is it all diseases based like Dutch?

quindraco ,

There’s too much history for everyone to know everything about everyone’s history. There’s absolutely value in knowledge of South African history being known outside of South Africa, but I’m not prepared to go after Americans, Swedes, or Peruvians for not knowing it, when none of them are even from the relevant continent.

potterpockets ,

Besides, America has their own vast, vast history of systematic and institutionalized racism and segregation to learn about before we go worrying about other countries history of systematic and institutionalized racism and segregation (I say this as an American and former history major).

Some notable examples of topics simply not taught or HEAVILY glossed over at best in many US history classes:

  • King Phillip’s War (arguably is an English example since it predates the founding of the USA, but it happened on what would become the USA, and perpetuated by people related to those that would become Americans)
  • Tulsa Race Riots
  • The Wilmington Coup/Massacre
  • The American conquests of the Philippines and Hawaii
  • The many interventions in Mexico
  • Pretty much everything the CIA has ever done in South America, Asia, and Africa
  • That time in WWII we unconstitutionally stripped the rights from law abiding American citizens just because of their Japanese ancestry and put them in concentration camps

Unfortunately, this is barely even scratching the surface.

FlexibleToast ,

In America I feel like I was taught a handful of eras of history over and over again. It’s like every grade was just the same history content. It became one of the most annoying classes.

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