That is a cool ass fact tho. Whats the most dangerous part of that walk from a natural environment perspective? Whats the most dangerous part from a state of the world perspective?
Jerboa is good but having done no others yet, I cant recommend one way or another. I cannot see the picture while typing this, will I be able to read the origin and destination and pull this up for myself when I go back to look at the OP? Do we know if this is the longest possible mapped walking route, or just the points fartest apart on the map from a satellite perspective? Gosh hows that compare to the longest possible drive?
There is a white couple somewhere ready to tackle this.
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That road, deadass, goes through five war zones. Hell no.
Sudan, Palestine, Ukraine, ____, and ____?
Syria and Gaza. Plus, it runs up along the Congo for quite a ways. That’s a route with some chest hair!
It goes near, but not through Ukraine.
I’m not asking ti remove items from the list, I’m asking to add them!
They say it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert at something. You’d have to walk this road about 2 and a half times just to become an expert at walking.
I really don’t understand Americans and their racial stuff. Why white?
Americans (especially non white Americans) tend to speak very frankly about race in a way that can make Europeans uncomfortable. In this context “white” is simply meant to conjure an image of someone with disposable income.
(See “black twitter”)
We’re not uncomfortable, we’re baffled at your fixation on race, and on skin colour specifically. In European countries, generally, mostly, there is no this weird racial tribalism. Some people are racist, for sure, and a bunch of institutional racism is still a thing, but it’s a bad thing and we understand it in this context.
You don’t fight racism by ignoring it. Being out there in a frank manner is a precondition to fixing it.
What?
It still just sounds racist to me. The joke is that black people are poor?
It is racist. White people are the only people it’s politically acceptable to be racist about.
racism requires a power structure to be historically against the oppressed. you cannot be racist against white people. you can be prejudiced, and I suppose you could make some argument that the above is prejudiced if you tried really hard, but calling it racism disregards the basis of what racism is
edit: for people down voting, please go read some books, take a class from your local community college, or just talk to your neighbors. this statement isn’t meant to be decisive, nor would it be in any race and diversity class.
So if a white person says “I hate all black people because they are black”, that’s racist. But if a black person says “I hate all white people because they are white”, that’s just prejudiced and somehow not as bad? Sounds to me like you might be racist.
Prejudice is a broader term that include race among other factors.
Power is not necessary to be racist. My neighbor is super racist but has absolutely no power.
Power is part of the equation as a multipier. It creates greater negative impact.
your neighbor may not have individual power, but his statements still carry more weight than the opposite. there’s a reason (most) white people would never dream of saying the n word, and that there’s no equivalent for the other way around, and it’s because there’s an inherent power dynamic baked into that word and its origins
Please go to another country and experience the exact opposite. In South Africa the EFF political party publicly chants to kill all white people.
“I will only be offended if a white person says the n-word” - so you are an absolute racist…
I agree with you, but I’m not arguing about the relative weight/ power/emotional damage etc. of one racist word against another. Those words are still racist independently of who holds the power.
So a white Zimbabwean can say the most vile racist slurs against black people because white people were oppressed in Zimbabwe…
Interesting paradigme…
But the problem is that the internet is not one country with one history.
They are talking about America. You need to always assume they’re talking about America, other countries don’t really exist.
where did you gain that I thought racism was ok from that? I’m merely pointing out that it’s a false equivalency
Well it is not racisme it is just prejudice, so it is ok…
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Fuck off with that academic bullshit.
Racism is prejudice based on race. The addition of a power structure was added to make racism against Whites more palatable. It’s a mix of denial and rationalization. And it’s racist as hell.
Edit: I assume you also think it’s impossible to be sexist against men? Or heterophobic against straight people? All this is is an attempt to whitewash racism against people who look like the people doing the oppressing. It’s a generalization based on race, which is—by definition—racist. Why not direct your anger at the incredibly tiny group of people actually creating the power structures of the world, rather than funneling it into useless and hypocritical counter-racism?
You are projecting an insane amount, and you can be racist against any group of people. And you made yourself sound racist af.
Do you not know about Nazi Germany? Miss that part in school? And you are telling others to read books?
That’s like saying using deadly violence in self defense isn’t killing because it’s self defense, not attacking. But it is still killing, just a form that’s treated differently.
The joke is that white people are so pampered they have to find absolutely insane sounding activities to have fun, like throwing yourself out of perfectly good airplanes, diving in caves, or walking the longest road on earth.
Those things sound fun, why are they bad? Do non white people not do those activities?
They are all hazardous to your health. Never said they were bad. I dunno. I don’t do any of them, except I threw myself out of perfectly good planes in the military and there were plenty of not white people there.
And to do so relatively cluelessly with the optimism that it will all work out fine because American, white, and money. Instagramming selfies with their kidnappers kinda thing.
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This is the road our grandparents used to walk to get to school if the stories they tell are true…
That’s what they meant by “uphill both ways”. Probably referring to having to cross the equator twice. This makes so much sense now.
This would take over 187 days if you didn’t have to stop to sleep.
So I walked the Pacific Crest Trail in 106 days. That’s 2650mi/4264km so I walked about 25mi/40km per day.
So if I could maintain that pace (which is debatable because the PCT doesn’t go through different countries or warzones) this would take me 557 days, or about 18 months.
In the very loose meaning of “can walk”. This road crosses several dangerous areas for multiple reasons, from war and jungles, to deserts and tundra, not to mention all the visas you’d need.
There’s a guy on Youtube who crossed the entire length of Africa on foot. Got kidnapped twice IIRC.
Russ Cook.
i can think of much more exciting things to do if i had a death wish tbh
holy shit i was thinking exactly that…i wonder how many other people are
Bruh fuck no, I’m gonna die in South Sudan if I walk this.
That whole middle east area is getting fucked by Israel. They will target you for fun, regardless of skin color.
Oh please, stop playing the victim you pathetic cunt! Everyone knows that there’s no moral difference between Israel and its neighbours. The only difference is who’s got the bigger guns.
If the cannibal soldiers of the Congo don’t get you first
Wow I thought that was a joke. I just looked it up. Fucking hell.
‘The soldiers had red eyes, and they were singing and dancing. They slaughtered the priest, cut him to pieces, removed his heart and liver and cooked them. The rest of the group had to pay money or eat the human flesh to be allowed to leave. Another four men, three women and three children were killed.’ Among the dead was a pregnant woman who was gutted.
Fun fact: If you were able to cross the Bering Straight then the only thing that would keep this road from reaching Argentina would be the Darien Gap, a stretch of dense rainforest that separates Panama from Colombia. Unfortunately it’s one of the most inhospitable places on Earth!
If immigrants can do it, then i can too
