“This place is fuct"
“This place is fuct. The social structure is completely broken down.”
Comments by a CBC reporter concerning a community in Africa devastated by aids. Where do we go from here? What the fuck do we do for a people - to a people - after we’ve fuct them up this much? Yes we fuct them up! By conquering them, enslaving them, exploiting them, followed by half a century of righteous grossly misguided west-centric “development projects,” two-decades of half-assed AIDS policy, and committing just about every other nasty thing against them we wouldn’t even wish against our neighbour’s dog. Where the fuck do we go from here?! How the hell do you ‘fix’ a people? How do we re-construct a broken social structure? Fixing people sounds pretty fucking condescending doesn’t it? Can we resolve this? Or should we just fuck’em and leave’em? This is where we’re at folks! These are the questions we need to be answering.
“I didn’t know what my father was suffering from, I just thought it was TB.”
Comments by an African girl on the condition of her father, upon finding out he had aids. JUST TB! How tragic it would be if your neighbour’s dog got TB. Can you fucking imagine how much your world would have to suck in order to say a thing like that! No SUV, no white picket fence, no college education, nothing!!! We should all go to hell for the mere fact that we sleep at night, and knowing how much suffering goes on in the world.
posted by Nicholas @ 15.11.05
2 Comments:
Yet when good people go and try and help, far too often they are criticized for meddling in the affairs of others.
So instead, we sent "peacekeepers" on behalf of the U.N. These peacekeepers just sit there, getting shot at, while we allow horrors to go on, as in Rwanda. Why? Because otherwise we'd be meddling in their affairs.
When someone, like the United States, says fuck what others think, we're going to get involved (ie: Somolia, Iraq) they get condemned as imperalists. All the while, real modern imperialists like France on the Ivory Coast, get away scot free from criticism.
You know, you are right... everything is "fuct".
our commentor gets a few things wrong in his comment, but nonetheless brings up something that i've been trying to reconcile for some time now.
but first what he's wrong about. though peace troops are often left impotent by diplomats playing political hopscotch, in the case of rewanda it had nothing to do with them not wanting to "meddle in their affairs." It had a lot more to do with the risk of western nations being made to look like assholes, (like they were in somalia) when all goes amuck. I assure you, the politicians only had their own interets in mind.
also, are you kidding me!!! France has been chastized for their imperialist policies for decades now! remember vietnam! the french were kicked out of their first. oh and do you even watch the news? the suburbs are burning down because of france's domestic racism running all the way back to the early 1900s. anyways the Us and Frnace are both modern imperialists (you could probably add russia, china, and britain to name a few to this list) .
finally the real issue at hand: how do we help people, without being imperialists - economically, politically, culturally etc? In other words, without forcing our agenda on them, and without melting their children (i kid not).
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