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He lacks the ability to understand race issues
Published 1 min ago on June 2, 2020
By Tom Boggioni
According to a report from Bloomberg, Black civil rights leaders who participated in a conference call with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg walked away afterward disappointed and stunned at the tech billionaires seeming inability to understand issues that impact African-Americans.
The report notes that part of the discussion involved Zuckerbergs decision to ignore and dismiss comments made by Donald Trump about police brutality protesters with one Black leader calling the execs explanation incomprehensible.
According to Bloombergs Jeff Green, Mark Zuckerberg hosted a nearly hour-long video call with U.S. civil rights leaders to discuss ongoing issues around his companys policies as they relate to race, elections and other topics, before adding it didnt go well based on comments from Color of Change President Rashad Robinson.
In an interview, Robinson lamented,
the problem with my ongoing conversations with Mark, is that I feel like I spent a lot of time, and my colleagues spent a lot of time, explaining to him why these things are a problem, and I think he just very much lacks the ability to understand it.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/black-leader-stunned-after-phone-call-with-facebooks-zuckerberg-he-lacks-the-ability-to-understand-race-issues/
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note: Bloomburg has a pay wall
And as for Zuckerburg...............he still has no warning label that the trumpster lies and is spreading misinformation............
Beakybird
(3,333 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)He understands, he just doesn't care.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Haven't seen one that wasn't?
The 400 richest families in America: All Sadists?
This is their country too getting FUBAR deluxe treatment?
wnylib
(21,618 posts)courtesy of Putin spy operations. So the orange fascist gets to keep his public platform for destroying America.
Captain Zero
(6,824 posts)Phone it in.
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Same as Jared.
Baltimike
(4,148 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Zuckerberg and cohorts have repeatedly sided with RWers including, but not limited to shithole and family.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Unfortunately he only went to Harvard.
LunaSea
(2,895 posts)whiteboy paradise have a clue?
lostnfound
(16,191 posts)Lots of them dont, also.
And then theres stephen Miller, who seems to have had compassionate parents but still became a sociopath.
kimbutgar
(21,210 posts)Those children are not mf45s White Aryans.
TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts).
Like Stephen Miller -- No matter how 'White' he thinks he is, being Jewish will override all to Neo-Nazis.
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kimbutgar
(21,210 posts)Useful idiot
JI7
(89,276 posts)it's not about whether he himself is the bigot.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)I think he's all about money, too, but autism would explain a lot of his inability to relate or empathize.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Autistic as per a Mental Health Family member,but,testing would be needed to verify.
yardwork
(61,712 posts)My son is on the autism spectrum and is one of the most empathetic people I've ever met. Autistic people may have difficulty picking up social cues, but that doesn't mean that they aren't empathetic and caring people.
I think the word you're seeking for Zuckerberg is "sociopath."
marble falls
(57,270 posts)jaxexpat
(6,852 posts)It's a pretty common trait for many billionaires.
coti
(4,612 posts)drmeow
(5,025 posts)The fact that your son is empathic has less to do with his autism and more to do with how you raised him. Many people on the autism spectrum need to learn to put themselves in other people's shoes and, for people with asbergers at least, not bring good at reading cues and facial expressions can add a challenge to that.
Sophia_Of_PlanetX
(73 posts)It no doubt helped with his hyper-focus on Facebook and made him rich, but he is also lacking in morals and empathy.
Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)For who, exactly?
louis-t
(23,297 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,758 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)His father was a psychiatrist and his mother was a dentist. He attended Harvard after going to a private school.
Has he EVER even been exposed to life as a poor "white" guy, let alone be exposed to a mostly-black neighborhood? Doubt it.
RAB910
(3,511 posts)Knows he is not a good person
stopdiggin
(11,372 posts)even among younger people. REALLY had me scratching my head. Zuckerberg as a "success" story? Don't you walk away from this feeling kind of slimed and dirty?
RAB910
(3,511 posts)Coventina
(27,172 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)That's what I usually see.
I always think, "It is?! What about e-mails or phone calls or texts? Heck, even snail-mail?"
I'll keep to myself what I think is the real motivation for most people.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)For some reason, friends and family aren't worth an effort.
kiri
(796 posts)Zucky (whose name means "sugar mountain" in German) is a really amoral man, with no core principles or values. He is an echo of Trump.
Beringia
(4,316 posts)A great way to keep in touch with anyone you have ever met at some time, and want to have some connection to and also their posts can be very enriching and encouraging. I have had very close friends that as time goes on, or you move away, the friendship dies. But it still nice to see their thoughts and what is happening in their lives. Even my childhood friends who I parted ways with, I really enjoy seeing their posts.
Zuckerberg enables Facebook, and controls it to some extent, but Facebook isn't a political alliance website. The opposite. You can have FB friends who are totally ignorant of politics or social issues. And then some who teach you something or are more socially conscious than you are.
DU is it's own bubble in many ways, which has its downside.
Zuckerberg will die at some point, and maybe his successor will change things.
unblock
(52,331 posts)it.
zuckerberg only sees dollar signs, and he sees no profit in doing the right thing.
bigotry is controversy, controversy generates eyeballs, eyeballs generate advertising profits.
so *of course* he can't understand all this talk about limiting bigotry.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)The "Angry," "Sad," or "Wow" thingies are important, as are liking comments you agree with.
Out vote the MFers just like I hope we do in November.
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)Whenever I encounter a false or misleading post, I'm quick to set the record straight. I don't want a rerun of 2016. I provide links whenever possible.
infullview
(982 posts)Site like this are designed to feed the particular bias the user has. Just like youtube in that regard.
TheBlackAdder
(28,222 posts).
His sister is no better.
http://www.thefeministwire.com/2013/10/17973/
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Although Sandberg revised her perspective on feminism, she did not turn towards primary sources (the work of feminist theorists) to broaden her understanding. In her book, she offers a simplistic description of the feminist movement based on women gaining equal rights with men. This construction of simple categories (women and men) was long ago challenged by visionary feminist thinkers, particularly individual black women/women of color. These thinkers insisted that everyone acknowledge and understand the myriad ways race, class, sexuality, and many other aspects of identity and difference made explicit that there was never and is no simple homogenous gendered identity that we could call women struggling to be equal with men. In fact, the reality was and is that privileged white women often experience a greater sense of solidarity with men of their same class than with poor white women or women of color.
Sandbergs definition of feminism begins and ends with the notion that its all about gender equality within the existing social system. From this perspective, the structures of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy need not be challenged. And she makes it seem that privileged white men will eagerly choose to extend the benefits of corporate capitalism to white women who have the courage to lean in. It almost seems as if Sandberg sees womens lack of perseverance as more the problem than systemic inequality. Sandberg effectively uses her race and class power and privilege to promote a narrow definition of feminism that obscures and undermines visionary feminist concerns.
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dalton99a
(81,599 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)He's a sociopath.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)on Facebook, and it doesn't require an app. Life can be lived without it.
dhill926
(16,364 posts)or Facebook needs to go. Something will always rise up to replace it....
Chainfire
(17,644 posts)That a billionaire businessman could have any reason to try to understand race relations? He is totally insulated from the situation by walls of money.
Thekaspervote
(32,796 posts)kinksfan1
(25 posts)I'm done with it.
Boomerproud
(7,968 posts)Would appreciate some help on this. Yes I am only semi literate computerwise.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)statement. If true, it also offers extremely valuable peep into something seriously wrong with one of the most powerful men on the planet.
dlk
(11,578 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)He tries to appeal to a different part of the Republican Party on Facebook. It's propaganda bullshit but it's not as inflammatory.
TeamPooka
(24,259 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He really is. He gives me the creeps. Something just isn't right about that guy. He has that inhuman Jared Kushner/Stephen Miller quality about him. It's like they have no souls.
totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)If you have a Facebook account, delete it. There are some good tutorials on the Net which explain how to completely delete your Facebook account once and for all. If we continue to use Facebook we become unwitting enablers.
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)Refuse to use. Its like injecting strychnine into your mind.
angrychair
(8,733 posts)Is Zuckerberg's wife is not white.
I guess being a billionaire creates a degree of immunity but ignorance
Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)that think Asians are a superior race. He probably thinks his status is raised by being married to her and having her be the mother of his children.
angrychair
(8,733 posts)My son's girlfriend is Asian and they have only encountered the normal type of racists.
In my experience money and power only protect you so much, at the end of the day, to a bigoted, xenophobic racist, they see non-whites as all the same.
Interesting twist though.
JI7
(89,276 posts)Chinese Virus crap and ordering an Asian American reporter to ask China whatever she was asking him.
He just seems like one of those types that doesn't care as long as he himself is doing ok.
JI7
(89,276 posts)becsuse of what he said about holocaust deniers. Him being Jewish doesn't make it ok or better.
angrychair
(8,733 posts)Didn't even know he was Jewish.
Confused.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)serious defects,
so I'm not surprised that he can't understand race issues, because race issues can't not be broken down to a few lines of code.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)That is the answer. The users have that power. It may be unpalatable to many, but it is the answer. Sometimes doing the right thing is uncomfortable. (She steps away from her self-righteous pulpit.)
Crunchy Frog
(26,647 posts)just because they're extremely rich.
The problem is more that we live in a plutocracy than that this particular plutocrat is an asshole.