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                                                 July 12, 2020

The youtube channel "Transport Evolved"          
has a criticism up of the documentary            [link]
"Planet of the Humans".                                                                                          

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There's a now common litany of complaints
about this documentary:  
  
  o  old data about old designs
  o  ignores "peer-reviewed science"
  o  this is a gift to the bad guys

After covering this ground, the white woman 
going through this spiel gets to the killer
argument:  There's a lack of *ethnic diversity*. 
The documentary has interviews with various 
experts (or "experts") and they're all white:

   "The video was frankly *white*."

This left me thinking "have you looked in the 
mirror recently?".  
                                               
And I also wonder if she's checked the ethnic       
diversity of the "peer-reviewed science" she's      
referring to, because I suspect you're going to     
find people-of-color somewhat under-represented     
there, as well...                                   
                                                    
This is the milk calling the mayo white.           
                                                   
                                                                        
   I've seen other commenters go there, including                       
   Josh Fox at The Nation-- there's a certain kind          HUMAN_FINISH
   of white lefty that thinks they can score points
   by complaining about someone else's whiteness...

                 



                         It's a pretty common meeting topic
                         among well-intentioned left-wing
                         organizations: "why don't more
                         black people want to play with us?"

                             I know of one case where someone tried to point
                             out that most of the people in the room had
                             money behind them, and busting your ass at a
                             low-paid non-profit gig isn't a realistic option
                             for many people...  that remark apparently
                             didn't go over terribly well.


              I was once at a Green Festival in
              San Francisco and a white dude
              sitting next to me started showing
              off his Sensitivity, gesturing         Those damn Greens
              around the room asking me if I'd       are so frankly-white.
              noticed how white the crowd is.








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