The Use of Computers to Support Oppression
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The Use of Computers to Support Oppression
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#2I hate how you americans kicked South Africa for the same things they stopped to do, like, just fifteen years earlier.
That's like punching other people instead of saying "sorry, I did bad things". Bonus thing, you ruin a country in process.
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#3I hate how you americans kicked South Africa for the same things they stopped to do, like, just fifteen years earlier. That's like punching other people instead of saying "sorry, I did bad things". Bonus thing, you ruin a country in process.
Example:
"This system broke down the structure of the African family, as the workers were prohibited from living with their families"
Didn't that also happen to american black family due to reasons entirely economic? Some people prefer to kill with money not guns, doesn't make the murder less bad.
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#4I'd already heard about IBM supplying the Nazis, but not South Africa. Interesting to know..
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#5Is there any scope in our developed economy for inventors to maintain influence over who it is that gains from their creativity? Or is that hope completely lost?
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#6I hate how you americans kicked South Africa for the same things they stopped to do, like, just fifteen years earlier. That's like punching other people instead of saying "sorry, I did bad things". Bonus thing, you ruin a country in process.
At risk of speaking for others, I don't think most Americans feel a cohesive group identity as an 'American' or as a white American. Does it make much sense to generalize "you South Africans" including both Afrikaners and Bantus?
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#7I hate how you americans kicked South Africa for the same things they stopped to do, like, just fifteen years earlier. That's like punching other people instead of saying "sorry, I did bad things". Bonus thing, you ruin a country in process.
At risk of speaking for others, I don't think most Americans feel a cohesive group identity as an 'American' or as a white American. Does it make much sense to generalize "you South Africans" including both Afrikaners and Bantus?
The article-about-South-Africa-writing kind of Americans.
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#8I hate how you americans kicked South Africa for the same things they stopped to do, like, just fifteen years earlier. That's like punching other people instead of saying "sorry, I did bad things". Bonus thing, you ruin a country in process.
This article is more about casting shame on IBM, not South Africa.
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#9At the same time Southern Africa was fighting a proxy war between the West and USSR. It was pretty hard to dismantle apartheid but be sure Russia didn't end up with a South African client. After the cold war ended the decision became much easier.
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#10I hate how you americans kicked South Africa for the same things they stopped to do, like, just fifteen years earlier. That's like punching other people instead of saying "sorry, I did bad things". Bonus thing, you ruin a country in process.
So if you ever did something bad, you can't stop other people doing it? An ex-thief gone straight should watch and do nothing as someone is robbed in front of him? A reformed killer must turn away as someone is murdered in front of her? A nation that manages to start on the road away from its prejudices must turn a blind eye to the suffering of other peoples?