kylecazar
a year ago
The 'Black' part of this article's title seems a little weird
nayuki
a year ago
On the other hand, whenever a Black person is successful, it's okay to mention that in the headline.
TacticalCoder
a year ago
> On the other hand, whenever a Black person is successful, it's okay to mention that in the headline.
But I agree it's a bit off. For example it's OK for the NYT to mention that SBF is a genius and that he's an effective altruist in headlines as long as his ponzi is not exposed, but as soon as it's exposed, suddenly no mention of "effective altruism" (despite several people from that movement personally and illegally benefiting from "donations" from SBF [1]) nor any mention of "genius" anymore.
We're kind of used to headlines working that way.
[1] even years and maybe even decades later there's hope some of these funds shall be clawed back from these people though (people who suddenly now have a very low profile)
Yeul
a year ago
Effective altruism is called "taxation" in my country. It's been an ongoing success for a 1000 years.
f33d5173
a year ago
Taxes are used for building roads, not curing malaria. It's so odd how angry people get when someone tries to help others.
mszyndel
a year ago
Oh boy, do I have news for you about how malaria was eradicated in Europe https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8277918/
f33d5173
a year ago
Without clicking your link, I'm guessing it was either a friendship program of the chinese government (one of the more altruistic governments, even among governments), or possibly a UN program (the UN is sometimes called the "united altruists") which simultaneously eradicated it worldwide. Was I close?
quickthrowman
a year ago
The federal government was instrumental in eradicating malaria from the United States: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Malaria_Eradication...
f33d5173
a year ago
How very altruistic, eradicating malaria in one's own country. With that headstart, surely they must have finished curing it worldwide by now.
Intralexical
a year ago
> It's so odd how angry people get when someone tries to help others.
That's an odd description, given that the anger is because "effective altruism" is seen as neither effective at helping others nor honest about altruistic motives.
f33d5173
a year ago
Despite manifold evidence that they are. See the sbf case. They get implicated for being recipients of donations from a fraudster. That's not a serious demonstration that they aren't altruistic and don't care about helping others.
dyauspitr
a year ago
Of course it is, I’m all for giving leeway to a group that’s not doing as well as the others.
esperent
a year ago
> a group that’s not doing as well as the others
That's a really weird way to describe systemic racism.
hyperhello
a year ago
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bartread
a year ago
I agree: I don’t see how it’s relevant to what she did, what happened subsequently, or her current situation.
If this were reported in the UK I doubt her skin colour would have been mentioned at all due to its irrelevance.
drak0n1c
a year ago
It's written by The Root, which is a race-focused publication.
unsupp0rted
a year ago
Which also makes about as much sense to me as a height-focused publication.
rascul
a year ago
HeatrayEnjoyer
a year ago
That might also have uses.
paxys
a year ago
As does the focus on her wedding. Yeah she defrauded investors for millions and spent the money. She isn't going to jail over the specifics of her spending, but the first part.
mindslight
a year ago
The specifics of the spending do matter. If she had spent the money within the company context, even on things that are personally lavish (eg private jet), it would have been harder to make the case for outright criminal fraud.
mrandish
a year ago
Yeah, the whole focus of this "reporting" is bizarrely twisted.
Also, based on the charges named in the article, the 40 years doesn't really make much sense, so even that is probably just based on adding up the max allowed sentence for each charge and multiplying by the number of counts.