pretty telling that first reation of some here can be summed with: what is really white?

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    Given that it’s only non-whites that are gone, no skills or technologies were lost ;)

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      I hope to the gods old and new that the winkyface means you are actually joking, not “hahah only serious” joking.

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          Well, that one’s getting a downvote, a user note, and a block.

          ;)

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              You have a middle schooler’s understanding of the world around you, and that is being unkind to most middle schoolers.

              phobia can also mean aversion, as in hydrophobic…or an aversion to water.

              Did your parents drop you on your head when you were younger? Or did you have to work to become so ignorant?

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                  phobia is a persistent, excessive, unrealistic fear of an object, person, animal, activity, or situation. It is a type of anxiety disorder. A person with a phobia either tries to avoid the thing that triggers the fear, or endures it with great anxiety and distress.

                  Lol, you do understand that the definition of a word is different from its use as a suffix?

                  “The suffix -phobia comes from the Greek word phobos, meaning “fear” or “panic,” and is used to form nouns that mean an extreme or irrational fear, aversion, or hatred of a specific thing.”

                  I don’t have an aversion to transvestites, I just feel sad for their pain and wish they could focus on something other than playing dressup (or worse, mangling their hormones and/or genitals)

                  When you feel sad for someone’s pain you tend to empathize with them, not specifically use hate speech and inflammatory language to hurt them more.

                  Can’t imagine what it’s like to center your life around gender identity. It’s like seeing a cripple, you know?

                  I bet there’s a lot of things you lack the intelligence to imagine.

                  I would hug you if I thought it’d heal you.

                  I’m a happily married cishet dude. I’m just not a transphobe for the same reason I’m not a racist, because I’m not a braindead Incel fucking loser.

                  hydrophobic literally means water-fearing

                  Again… Displaying your ignorance proudly.

                  Hydrophiba means fear of water.

                  Hydrophobic means aversion, dislike, or repels water

                  Suffix -phobic : Biology and Chemistry: Describes organisms or substances that repel or dislike certain conditions (e.g., hydrophobic materials that repel water).

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          Or just another pathetic, basement dwelling edgelord, spending his time looking to get a reaction by being an absolute moron. I have a hard time believing people are that stupid

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        For future reference if the username ends in @sh.itjust.works you can just assume the worst.

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      Skills and technology won’t matter when you starve because you don’t have the hispanics doing all the agricultural work.

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        There’s also a 90% reduction on food demand, don’t forget. Can live on stored food for some time while figuring out production.

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      Excuse me, but what country provides the most printed silicon for chip manufacturing, and what ethnicity are they?

      Now consider how much of our daily technology we take for granted makes use of that printed silicon.

      That’s just one example.

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          Rare Earth minerals and the skills and equipment to process them are not in the Western world. It is, however, in a grand multitude of countries elsewhere in the world, all of which wouldn’t be considered “white”. And… That covers everything from guided missiles to toys.

          The most efficient production lines in the world, with the most advanced manufacturing capabilities, are in China. China sells the equipment and the skill to manage the equipment to its neighbours, and we get everything from clothes to tooth brushes from that.

          The world has ONE, only ONE, major source of Gum Arabic, which is a country in Africa you’ve probably never even heard of. This includes the skills and expertise to manufacture it, and it’s used in food and paint.

          Do I even need to mention where the world gets the majority of its oil from, and where all the skilled workers and equipment is to process said oil? Or how important oil is to the world, even completely discounting its use as a fuel?

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              You exact quote was:

              Given that it’s only non-whites that are gone, no skills or technologies were lost ;)

              Skills and technology can always be reproduced, more easily if adequate documentation exists. However, that is not your premise. Your premise is no skills or technology would be lost, which is just wrong. All of it will be lost, and whoever will be left will need to go through the long process of learning and reproducing said skills and technology, which can take multiple generations.