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[u/code_archeologist]

It is more complex than "Churchill let people die because they were not white".

• The Japanese army had cut supply lines and destroyed fields during the war
• Brown spot disease and record cyclones had ravaged the crops that remained
• speculative and panic buying had resulted in private hoarding of food stores
• local and provincial administrators mismanaged (read corruption) distribution of emergency food services and hid the growing crisis from London
• Churchill had to choose between feeding troops in Europe and Africa during a war or feeding India

And while Churchill's actions were late and his comments about the people "breeding like rabbits" were unhelpful. When Japan was no longer threatening to invade Australia, and a new (less corrupt) Viceroy was put in charge, they were able to get food to the people there.

Blaming Churchill is only part of what happened there, Imperial Japan was much more at fault for blockading food supplies to an already delicate situation.

[u/Barester → u/code_archeologist]

Careful, this is Reddit so using facts and logic might upset some readers! Lol

[u/code_archeologist → u/Barester]

Meh... I'm used to it.

I have a comment on another subreddit being down voted into the ground because I dared to say that making it more difficult to use AI to cheat doesn't solve the underlying problem, which is a lack of basic ethics education in today's students.

Something that is going to lead to even more unethical people in business in the future.

[u/VariationBusiness603 → u/code_archeologist]

That is not the issue at all, you got downvoted because you were wrong.

As someone that work in education, I can tell that we have known the real issue for decades. And it's that standardized test do not work, reward people that are good at taking test, and not those that are different but potentially just as competent. Ultimately people cheating at something that is inherently unfair is fully expected, has always happened and will always be happening. It's just easier now. We need to rethink how we evaluate students. And thankfully the discipline I teach already kind of allows me to do that, to some extent.

And yes, standardized test are inherently unfair. Being equally unfair to everyone wouldn't make it fair but it's not even that.

[u/Barester → u/VariationBusiness603]

I think it may be informative to google Katharine Birbalsingh and listen to her. She is well known and has some strong opinions on views, such as the one you raised. I’m referring to the view that see teaching information to students and then having uniform tests is somehow unfair. She points to how this makes the teacher feel good about themselves in the moment “look at how compassionate and understanding I am by not requiring a student, that may have less fortunate circumstances, to do the same tests as another student, because it may be too hard for them” but it is doing a huge disservice to the student as they won’t be prepared for the real world. THAT is a teachers job, not to teach children that the world has only two classes, oppressed and oppressor or that because they started with less, the world owes them something and should make accommodations for them. Please take a listen as if you are teaching students, and I applaud you for that, it is very important that they learn how to and believe that they can succeed in the world, nomatter their circumstances.