EA Defender Rebutts Gebru: Colonialism Was Bad Because It Didn't Help
KelseyTuoc · x · 2026-11-07
Responding to Gebru's comparison of EA to colonizers, Kelsey Tuoc argues that donating to global health is good, and colonialism was bad because it did not in fact help Africans — not because helping itself was wrong. The exchange crystallizes the core disagreement: can charitable intent and actual outcomes be judged separately?
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