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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don't think the comment was necessarily to dunk on Ethiopia per se as much as to make a point.

E.g. The person who worked out at least a theoretical model for faster than light travel was Mexican. So we are obviously not dealing with this situation in which the most intellectual necessarily are born into western society.