Lanky_Fella t1_j2totp9 wrote on January 3, 2023 at 9:48 PM

Reply to comment by PickleMan1212 in [OC] Countries with HDI higher than 0.850. by _crazyboyhere_

‘Suck’ is a bit rough. All of Africa (except Ethiopia) has only been independent for around 70 years (some even less) after colonisation. Plus most of Africa had the furthest to go to reach western standards of development, in terms of infrastructure.

SnooLobsters8922 t1_j2vsdll wrote on January 4, 2023 at 7:42 AM

It’s way beyond suck, it’s a massive clusterfuck and it’s the saddest thing that has ever happened in the world, literally (I’m sure who read thought it’s the holocaust, but Africa didn’t get that Oscar winning Spielberg movie).

Unfortunately I don’t think colonization explains all of it. Maybe warlords explain quite a lot

p11gezn t1_j2w231u wrote on January 4, 2023 at 9:50 AM

the cold war post independence probably adds quite a bit more

SnooLobsters8922 t1_j2w8kih wrote on January 4, 2023 at 11:15 AM

Yeah, but not really, right? Because there are colonies outside Africa that are fucked but not so fucked.

Lanky_Fella t1_j2w2zm6 wrote on January 4, 2023 at 10:02 AM

What are you on about with Spielberg 😂

SnooLobsters8922 t1_j2w8isq wrote on January 4, 2023 at 11:14 AM

Schindler’s list makes the holocaust be perceived as the worst thing that ever happened to humanity, but I question if that is really the case because we have had and still have pretty horrendous happenings. It’s the concept of ‘grievable lives’ — in our culture, some lives are more grievable than others.