Look, I don’t know what I’m failing to communicate here, but I absolute understand that. What I’m saying is that even if someone around here wanted to pretend what they were doing was good for people in Africa it would be to say that they’d be better off without our help. That us giving money to dictators that just end up spending it poorly is doing more harm than good, and Africa would be better off without us. That’s the opposite of a white savior complex.
Heck, if we weren’t also supporting dictators in other ways for the purpose of exploiting the people and resources of Africa while maintaining a degree of plausible deniability I might even agree with that.
Mostly though, they don’t talk about Africa, because they don’t think about Africa, because they don’t even pretend to care about Africa.
Charity to Africa is not about saving anything, it’s about pretending to do something good
Look, I don’t know what I’m failing to communicate here, but I absolute understand that. What I’m saying is that even if someone around here wanted to pretend what they were doing was good for people in Africa it would be to say that they’d be better off without our help. That us giving money to dictators that just end up spending it poorly is doing more harm than good, and Africa would be better off without us. That’s the opposite of a white savior complex.
Heck, if we weren’t also supporting dictators in other ways for the purpose of exploiting the people and resources of Africa while maintaining a degree of plausible deniability I might even agree with that.
Mostly though, they don’t talk about Africa, because they don’t think about Africa, because they don’t even pretend to care about Africa.