Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On 02/06/2025 08:20, CtrlAltDel wrote:

On Sat, 31 May 2025 11:07:00 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

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In the end having lived as a white Minority along with Asian Minorities
in a majority black country, I simply don't really see colour as much as
I used to.
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Britain had an Empire once that dealt with all sorts of people. We
aren't as insular as Americans.

  Give me a break.  The percentage of British that live in the United
Kingdom and who are black is a minuscule 3.7 percent.  You can go for days
and days, months and months, even years and years in many parts of the
United Kingdom without ever seeing a black person.
 And you want to cavalierly suggest Americans, who live in the melting pot
of the world, are insular compared to Britons?  You feel secure on a high
ground lecturing to a group of people whose population includes almost 13%
African Americans and 20% Latino and 6% Asian of some type or another.
 If anyone is seeming provincial here, it's you. Compared to Americans, the
British live in a gated community where race cards are checked before
being allowed to enter.
 

The innocence and naivete are fascinating. Do go on.

Almost 50 million blacks are US citizens; that's damn near as large as the
entire population of your little isolated island.  The Latino population
of the United States, of various stripes, virtually equals the population
of Great Britain at around 65-70 million.
 

And yet you give them a name, distinct from you?

Because England use to never have the sun set on it, hundreds of years
ago, doesn't give modern day Brits some greater insight into racial
harmony than Americans have.  And just because your rulers owned land
around the world and reigned over others doesn't give automatic
enlightenment to the British who never left the island and only read in
books about the people their upper classes had dominion over.

Sigh. Just carry on believing that.
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