What kills me is he is charging genocide with absolutely no proof. Global Poverty is at an all time low. Deaths from disease and crime are at a low. He is saying “white men ruin everything” while commenting on and using tech made primarly (but true not exclusively) by white guys. The same white guys who have made it a…

You still have not proven there is genocide, and you haven’t shown that brown people are somehow worse off either. What are brown people more afflicted with? Poverty globally is down. Life expectancy is up. AIDS, Malaria, even EBOLA are quickly becoming horror stories of the past.

Really? So AIDS is not being eradicated in Africa? Malaria is not being eradicated? Global starvation is up? Global Homelessness is up? Tell me what population of anyone is worse off now than they were 150 years ago?

Actually a terrible lot HAS changed in the last 150 years. AIDS is being eradicated in Africa (primarily due to white men, George W Bush inparticular). Rates of murder are down, healthcare and life expectancy is up. Global starvation is at an all time low.

Where is this starvation you talk about? There is no mass starvation in America. Medicaid gets poor people some healthcare (albeit not Germany level healthcare, but better than Rwanda), and homelessness is DOWN nationwide compared to 20 years ago.

EXACTLY. In Palo Alto I believe the limit is 3 stories. Within the city limits there is simply not enough SPACE for housing when you limit buildings to only 3 stories!

THIS. And the whole thing could be avoided if we zoned to allow high density housing to be built. But Palo Alto won’t allow a single 3 story apartment block, let alone the TOWERS the place needs to house all the tech workers.

We need policies that are practical and grounded in empathy like the ones proposed by Ms Hernandez-Goff. Brava, lady.

Because its not liberalism or corporatism that is doing this, but NIMBYism. The fact is that homeowners associations and city rules PREVENT new housing from being built. Silicon Valley should have its own skyscrapers by now, but houses that would sell for $100,000 in the Midwest are going for $1 million because new…

I mean you are using a platform built by white guys, and are on Facebook and Twitter which allow you to subvert traditional media and both those platforms were built by white guys. You are using tons of tech made by these Silicon Valley white guys you despise so much and you just take it for granted.

Can we stop labeling things “genocide” when they are not genocide? Rwanda was a genocide. The Armenians were genocide. The Jews were victims of Genocide.

What is MRF?