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Hostility towards Oxfam

vendredi 23 février 2018 à 01:00

Oxfam faces an inexplicable climate of hostility, in which everything it says is taken as a sign of wrongdoing.

You can see this bias when people label this uproar with the terms "sex exploitation" and "sexual abuse". At that point enters the premise that doing business with a sex worker is a wrong that deserves condemnation. Then the attack typically condemns the organization because someone on its staff did this "wrong".

If an Oxfam staffer hires a country music band, a genre which I dislike rather strongly, should I say Oxfam has a music exploitation scandal?

'State of emergency' in Ethiopia

vendredi 23 février 2018 à 01:00

What is happening in Ethiopia?

This "state of emergency" shows something big is happening. What is it?

Registered intermediaries

vendredi 23 février 2018 à 01:00

"Registered intermediaries" help young children testify about sexual abuse.

In the US, "recovered memory" therapists used to convince vulnerable people that they "remembered" being sexually abused while children — but the abuse had not really happened. Some people were imprisoned for years then exonerated.

It might be the case that these "intermediaries" are doing the same thing, some of the time. Or maybe they take care to avoid it. The article does not address the issue.

Urgent: Fire LA thug

vendredi 23 février 2018 à 01:00

Everyone: call on Los Angeles to fire the thug that shot a gun at a group of teenagers because they were crossing a lawn.

The cheater diverting funds

jeudi 22 février 2018 à 01:00

The cheater started diverting funds to his family friends even before being inaugurated.