On the one hand this is cringe, on the other hand there’s a lot of Christian charities that will do stuff like give toys to African children but also give them propaganda on how condoms are evil. So this one feels relatively harmless.
Just more ineffective lib shit. It’s honestly not a big deal, you can agitate people who already want to help the Global South/developing world.
The Christians you talk about are usually much harder to agitate. They often think countries in Africa or Central America are struggle because of their pagan or immoral cultures. Basically just thinly veiled racist distractions from material conditions.
Should we build a modern water pipe system with treatment plants and connect these villages to it? Nah this giant plastic container is the best we can do.
Fuck western “aid” to Africa, this shit only exists to paper over the whole sale robbery we perpetrate on the global south each year.
I understand it, some people enjoy having community online that they may not have elsewhere. To see your anonymous community do IRL things is pretty interesting, and it reaffirms your membership in this anonymous tribe when you see its name on something. I’m sure people on here understand that sentiment, given that we immediately recongregated elsewhere after our website was banned.
The OP is still hilarious and dumb, but I don’t think it’s as simple as karma whoring.
Something makes my blood boil when I see something donated to help people, instead turn into an egotistical monument to the people that donated it. Just do a good thing without patting yourself on the back.
It’s very transparent when somebody contrives a reason to do something good because they prioritise based on what gains them the most social favour. Everybody is aware of it and recognises what they’re doing, everyone.
But it then allows egoists to discredit people who do good things as ‘virtue signalling’ because they can’t admit there genuinely is a world where opportunities to go good present them selves (which is everywhere all the time) and people act selflessly in response.
The bleed of online into offline was a tragedy
