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> even on the day of their wedding, both made time for lab work. This would be the definition of pure passion and what it takes to accomplish something like this. These people are a totally different breed compared to people I know. Kudos to them for their achievements.
This Covid vaccine was created by a German company founded by the children of Turkish immigrants. In this time of open racism and public hostility to immigration, this needs to be pointed out and repeated. It was children of Turkish immigrants to Germany.
From a logical standpoint: If this should be pointed out specifically, should the same be done for crimes commited by immigrants? If not, isn’t that technically disingenious or at least a double standard?
Do you want to have race based discrimination and murders? go with the selectively pointing out the crimes committed by immigrants are committed by immigrants. This will give the illusion of causation(Immigrants do this because they are ).
If you want to have a society where people are judged by merit but you still have people arguing that it’s the race we should be looking for, go with pointing out the success of the immigrants. This will break the "Turks commit crimes because they are Turks" claim and inspire people to look to replicate the success of the successful ones.
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I can't quite tell, are you being sarcastic? If so, I'd just like to point out that there's nothing wrong with being proud of the place where you're from or of the accomplishments of the people of the community there.
of course, he's being sarcastic. people tend to be patriotic about the good stuff and forget about the rest. that's his point.
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That's excellent. Well done for being so close. Hope nothing bad happens locally that would ever make you apologise for being where you are (from).
I can't quite tell, are you being sarcastic? If so, I'd just like to point out that there's nothing wrong with being proud of the place where you're from or of the accomplishments of the people of the community there.
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Why? Can one not be passionate about accounting?
There's a slight difference between striving to save lives and striving to maximize profits for shareholders.
If an accountant works for Pfizer, aren't they indirectly involved in saving lives too?
I'm not even criticizing the fact that they went into the lab on their wedding night. I'm criticizing how unhealthy behavior that may be called out in other contexts is viewed as not only healthy behavior but commendable behavior if the reader has positive associations with the specific acts of unhealthy behavior.
Everyone is excited about "90% efficacy", but nobody mentions the rate of side effects. Hmm. If this is injected into several billion people, twice into each person, wouldn't you want to know at least an estimate of the ratio before you do that? Especially with mandatory vaccination looming on the horizon.
do you really think the thousands of scientists working on this just forgot to take into account the harm caused by the vaccine in comparison to covid?
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of course, he's being sarcastic. people tend to be patriotic about the good stuff and forget about the rest. that's his point.
Well spotted, and you're absolutely correct - I was being sarcastic, and to be so on this site took an awful lot of consideration, especially as I refuse to use '/s'. Further regarding my 'point' (dig?), I would have responded the same had the poster said '...as a German I apologize for [obvious historical things]'. The irony that the couple are immigrants added an extra dimension.
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It doesn't matter where they are from. This was the work of a group of dedicated individuals working together. Their national origins are irrelevant. If you want to end the "open racism", focus more on individuals and less on groups.
I disagree. It breaks the false narrative of "immigrants are just a burden for the society".
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It’s as relevant as a black US president. Or a female Vice President.
aka identity politics
https://today.duke.edu/2013/10/maejemison
In the future there are going to be similar stories about people inspired by president Obama and Vice President Harris because these models show them how far they can go.
It’s not about identity politics, it’s about showing people they can escape the box society appears to capture them in.