points by JuniperMesos 20 hours ago | 0 comments
> 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.
– “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.”