Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living?

• atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why are you trying to explain this correlation? Nobody else had mentioned skin tone, so you weren’t correcting anyone. You just brought up a completely unrelated correlation out of the blue for no reason? And you’re defending it in comment after comment instead of just saying “sorry that was a non-sequitur, my bad”.

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because it’s not a non-sequitur? The whole post is about the observed development of Western Europe. I didn’t realize no one was allowed to make comments unless they correct people, I guess I’m using outdated discussion modalities. I forgot that now we over-simplify everything to place ideas into simple, emotionally-directed groupthink boxes

    All I said was the development in Western Europe was jump-started by the environmental pressures to develop the technologies that lead to it (seasonal variation, low sunlight, cold climate), and that the same environmental pressures also selects for paler skin. People like you started twisting that into some bullshit about “evolutionary racial advantage”, in comment after comment even after I repeated that that has nothing to do with my point.

    Not everything has to be racially charged, but since you insist, I’m done. Bully someone else with your emotionally reductive bullshit.

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