>>It'd be really interesting to find out the correlation between the users who down-voted and the color of their skin. I am pretty sure about the outcome.
I downvoted you and I'm first-gen Nigerian in America. Just about everyone else is in Lagos. I feel very confident, at least as far as educated Nigeria is concerned, that most suspect Africans-used-as-experiments more than withholding-for-white-man.
Not giving Dr.Khan the medicine was the right thing to do.
Having a few people like you talking about withholding-conspiracies that don't really make sense... is better than giving him the untested drug, ends up not working(maybe producing horrible side-effects) and the general public freaks out even more and trusts all the doctors even less than they already do.
Because giving a medicine, untested on humans, to an African during this time of panic and mistrust(justified, to be sure) is a ridiculous risk.
Role a dice to see if you can save Dr.Khan.
- If it works[<50%], awesome he lives and they get to work on making more of the stuff while trying to contain it.
- If doesn't work[>50%], the already deep mistrust and panic of the people will increase and everyone freaks out. If later they actually do find a cure, who's going to believe them?
- Third option. Test it on someone who isn't African so whatever the results are, you don't have a PR disaster & mass-panic on your hands.
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Don't be stupid, I'm not complaining about racism.
But earlier you said:
>>It'd be really interesting to find out the correlation between the users who down-voted and the color of their skin. I am pretty sure about the outcome.
That's the only reason I downvoted you and replied.
We all read(or should have read) the article here. It was a tough call; some people claim it was the wrong call. I say they made the right call.
Think what you want, I can see I'm not going to convince you. I'm just telling you that I downvoted you and why I did it.
I downvoted you and I'm first-gen Nigerian in America. Just about everyone else is in Lagos. I feel very confident, at least as far as educated Nigeria is concerned, that most suspect Africans-used-as-experiments more than withholding-for-white-man.
Not giving Dr.Khan the medicine was the right thing to do.
Having a few people like you talking about withholding-conspiracies that don't really make sense... is better than giving him the untested drug, ends up not working(maybe producing horrible side-effects) and the general public freaks out even more and trusts all the doctors even less than they already do.