kylecazar
a month ago
The 'Black' part of this article's title seems a little weird
nayuki
a month ago
On the other hand, whenever a Black person is successful, it's okay to mention that in the headline.
TacticalCoder
25 days 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
25 days ago
Effective altruism is called "taxation" in my country. It's been an ongoing success for a 1000 years.
f33d5173
25 days 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
25 days 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
25 days 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
25 days ago
The federal government was instrumental in eradicating malaria from the United States: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Malaria_Eradication...
f33d5173
25 days 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
25 days 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
25 days 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 month ago
Of course it is, I’m all for giving leeway to a group that’s not doing as well as the others.
esperent
25 days ago
> a group that’s not doing as well as the others
That's a really weird way to describe systemic racism.
hyperhello
25 days ago
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bartread
25 days 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 month ago
It's written by The Root, which is a race-focused publication.
unsupp0rted
25 days ago
Which also makes about as much sense to me as a height-focused publication.
rascul
25 days ago
HeatrayEnjoyer
25 days ago
That might also have uses.
paxys
a month 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
25 days 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 month 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.