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Donald Trump Calls for Global Investment in the U.S. at Davos Economic Forum
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Not sure I said anything about race. But my intention was to highlight both the irony of the US asking for investment (ridiculous), and the fact that if investment was made it would be best deployed in the areas Trump considers his core base areas (which he has actually threatened to remove, in terms of defunding health care and education). The fact is that the US has systemically failed to invest in low income areas and particularly in public goods that benefit people of color and disenfranchised Appalachian communities in the Southeast. A call for investment at Davos is basically a call for bribes, and wildly disingenuous against the backdrop of pulling funding from WHO. If that's not the kind of commentary you're interested in I'll be happy to take my attention elsewhere, and if I whooshed you with my quick wit earlier and somehow implied something racist, sorry, and I still don't understand, feel free to clarify.
thank you for clarifying, i've restored your comment. i apologize for misinterpreting.
Absolutely, and to be extra clear I wasn't talking about the actual indigenous tribal areas that do exist there but the predominantly white mostly rural evangelical communities that are to my view analogous to the tribal areas in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the way that Neal Stephenson describes in the excellent book Fall: or, Dodge in Hell when he talks about Ameristan. No harm no foul, I'm glad there's someone paying attention to the feed and vigilant against bad faith or racist commentary.
thank you for clarifying again, because this means i didn't misinterpret. but maybe it's better to leave it up and try to explain more.
you seem to be a well meaning liberal. but you keep using the word "tribal" to be synonymous with "backwards and undeveloped." afghanistan and pakistan are not underdeveloped because they're tribal societies. rather, they're underdeveloped because of exploitation by imperialist countries throughout the past century or so. countries that notably justified their imperialist exploitation by claiming to bring modernity to the backwards tribal peoples they were exploiting. that's why your initial comment comes off as racist, you're basically insinuating that people exploited by imperialism are responsible for their own condition because their backwards ideas cause them to reject modernity.
"developing countries" are not underdeveloped, they are overexploited. the people are kept poor by exploitative trade relations that are enforced through imperialist violence. saying it's because they're "tribal" is just wrong, and is a notion rooted in subconscious white supremacy.
does that make sense? it's a ridiculous and racist comparison that you and neal stephenson are making. i don't think it's intentional on your part or his, but do please knock off the way you're using the word tribal.
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