He didn't dismiss the article out of hand. He debunked its points and then pointed out that the author seems to have an unstated agenda.
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I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. If as a white person you punch a black person because you don't like the car the person is driving, that's not racism, that's just some weird aggression. It's not based on the concept of race. But if you punch them because they're black, that's obviously racism.
Same thing here. If you're taking an action that indirectly causes harm to mostly non-whites (more specifically to poor people, some of whom are white) without the intent of causing harm, that's not racist. It's only racist if you feel that the group that's being harmed is racially/ethnically inferior to your group and that that justifies your actions.
That isn't to say that knowingly causing harm to people, even without any racism involved, is OK. It's not. But it's the intent that defines racism.
That's a strange question. The planet doesn't have feelings, so it doesn't really care whether or not we have kids.
Other living organisms on the planet may care. But the rock we're on surely doesn't.
It's absolutely possible traveling without a smartphone. I've done it plenty of times before smartphones became a thing. But smartphones make it so much easier.
It's also probably very good for going out with your friends. It's always a pain in the arse to take out your camera/phone, interrupt whatever people are doing and have them pose for pictures. If this captures good pictures, it would be so much better.
Re privacy, I don't know if you check every line of source code in every app you've got installed on your PC/devices. If you don't, they could be capturing all the data they can and sending it over to big brother.