Apr 19, 2019

Notre Dame and outrage culture

I can't believe all the crap that has come out recently after the Notre Dame fire. That outrage culture has Been going on wild like wildfire after People decided to pay for the reconstruction.

" they have collected millions of dollars for Notre Dame but they aren't doing anything to end world hunger" and stuff like that. Seriously they have pulled out the Biafran children photos... as in the Biafra conflict from 1967. Seriously if there's all these issues with world hunger that they have all these ads on TV with the little sad children running on the streets drinking gutter water while they have this white person walking and talking about them and asking for $20 a month to help one child, Etc. But the only pictures they can use are from 19 freaking 67?

Then they shared these memes are acting like they are high and mighty because they "worry about the biafran children"... but the rest of the year they don't give a rat's ass about said children.

The comparison itself is stupid. This goes from comparing apples to 3D printers! The rebuilding of Notre Dame is one concrete thing it requires a single time donation.
Ending world hunger requires a lot more and it will require constant donations repeated maintenance and in some cases it would require military interventions in order to topple "evil" government and place "safer better" governments.

The Logistics of staving off hunger in a single country is complicated. Now multiply for the number of countries that are suffering hunger which includes First World countries and you'll see that it's logistically impossible to do. World hunger, fighting disease,  animal rights, protect the environment are vague Concepts. You cannot throw money at the big Concepts. For example fighting disease there's thousands if not millions of diseases in the world how can you get money to fight them all? Now fighting malaria it's a bit more achievable because it's one specific disease and research to combat it has received a lot of money by one Bill Gates.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't strive to end world hunger or 2 eliminate the Seas and all that no I'm not saying that we shouldn't do that.  I'm criticizing the downplaying of a tragedy to Showcase a different tragedy that the person showcasing doesn't really care about.

Different example I care about animals but I would never donate to PETA. I would rather donate to the World Wildlife Fund. ( I have to use the full name otherwise I would think about 80's wrestling)

There's also another one of these that's going like the last Black Horn Rhino is. Is dying and you don't give a rat's ass about it but sure you're going to donate to a building...

This one actually made me laugh out loud because okay it's the last Rhino off its kind and it's dying what the hell do you expect me to do? have sex with it until we can get a Rocksteady?

Also also I need to mention that many of the super rich donate to different causes each year. Sure, it might be a tax loophole but those tax loopholes get funding for things like: education to help fighting poverty to ecological needs to study diseases and how to get rid of them Etc.

But it's easier to post memes and pretty size while patting themselves on the back for being a good slacktivist...

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