| I agree with you that dismissing sexism and racial discrimination on the grounds that it happens most places is unacceptable. And I agree that there is a problem there, we should talk about it, doxxing is awful, and injustice needs to be tackled at every level. However, I think your response is partly fallacious, in that the GP is not comparing a local situation to far away starving children in Africa. Rather, in that analogy, they _are_ one of the starving children, like in Africa, and to rub it in it's in the same neighbourhood. Both make quite a different perspective, I think. I think the GP's point was more that they struggle to feel sympathy for the Googlers, when they themselves are in a much worse situation, which they regard as just realistic life in their world for ordinary people. I think they wanted to paint a picture for the rest of us of what "real life" is like for a lot of people in exactly the same country, lest we forget, and start to think it's generally good except at Google. |