Comment by Quarrelsome
6 hours ago
we're talking about the fucking industrial revolution, of course this defaults to the European perspective. Unless you wanna spit some new bars about Aztec foundries and train lines connecting meso-america in the 19th century, then the point stands. At that time, the world appeared to the industrialists of the industrial revolution to be infinite. Nor had humanity discovered the terrible side effects of fossil fuels on the atmosphere.
Why are you weirdly making this about race?
Sure, of course it's convenient to ignore the native peoples and pretend that prior to the Industrial Revolution the rest of the world outside of Europe was some untapped well of resources that Europeans had a natural right to.
Who might be swept underfoot in this "Information Revolution", I wonder?
Yes, just the other day I saw someone make a comment about write performance in SQLite without considering the plight of the Baltic peoples in the Northern Crusades. It was really convenient of them to do that, fucking typical.
Sure, because working on a database plugin is the same as, for example, working on mass surveillance tech.
This sort of handwashing is exactly why the natives were treated the way they were.
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Nobody said anything about Europeans having a "natural right". Bad enough to derail a conversation with irrelevant political nitpicking, unforgiveable to use a strawman to do so. Boo.
It's not irrelevant.
GP made a comparison between what we're going through and the Industrial Revolution. Ignoring the negatives of that revolution - like by acting as though the "new world" was uninhabited/unused and so Europeans had a right to its resources - seems like a bad idea.