You can call this hyperbolic if you like, but they disappeared a student organiser with a green card and told him it would be revoked. We all know where this is going.

without frequently thinking of my skin color, I am never asked to be a token or example or to speak for my race.

And in general, when I look at people in history, most of them look like me. 4/4

treated fairly by bankers, realtors, businesses or the IRS, not to mention the criminal justice system, most doctors, medications and medical trials are well represented by my race, if something is flesh, skin or nude colored, it will generally match my race, I can generally live my life 3/4

the President of my country is almost always my skin color, as area majority of actors, models and musicians, my supervisors are also generally my skin color, most food in the grocery store is designed for me, most salons are used to working with my hair texture, I can expect to generally be 2/4

to take care of other humans as they also take care of me. Thank goodness Elon wasn't a member of that apocryphal tribe whose member had a broken femur. He would've left that man to the Smilodons and civilization would never have existed! 9/9

schools will be future construction workers and nurses and doctors that will build and work at the nursing home I end up at when I'M older. We contribute to society, and society takes care of us. That's how civilization works. I'm a humanist and my moral compass says I have an obligation 8/9

roads and emergency services to salaries for astronauts to go to space. I've never been to space, but I'm happy to contribute to Curiosity roving around Mars. I don't have children in school, but I'm happy to contribute to school construction and teachers, because guess what, the kids in those 7/9

schools and foster care for children, Social Security for the disabled, the VA for veterans, TANF and HUD for the poor and homeless. Elon complains that kids now have to take care of their own parents and those who don't have kids. Well, guess what, Elon? We also pay taxes for everything from 6/9

Locke, Rousseau & others, the idea of a social contract is at the heart of our government. We pay taxes, obey laws, and contribute to society as our obligation to our government, and in return that society, through the government, has obligations to us. Including nursing homes for the elderly, 5/9

also care for children, disabled individuals, veterans, the poor, the homeless, and others who bring value to society (Stephen Hawking, for example?) but need financial and social assistance to do so. And guess what? Somebody DOES. It's called the government, and to butcher the ideas of Hobbes, 4/9

Of course, it's unlikely Margaret Mead actually said this. It's a nice story though, and more importantly, it demonstrates the idea that caring for all in a society is what *creates* a society. Musk notes that *somebody* has to care of older people. He's right, somebody should. Somebody should 3/9

with a healed broken femur, demonstrating that individuals in that tribe of Homo Sapiens cared for the man despite his injury. That care of injured, elderly or infirm individuals is said to be the first sign of civilization: helping others is the cornerstone of how we start a society. 2/9