https://xcancel.com/seriousposter/status/1835054397258117390?t=ze79DXLwGou576C-3m5kVg&s=19
I know it has like 3 likes but I’ve seen so many people with this view, it’s insane ‘My uncle went to help them as a missionary but they’re hopeless LOL aren’t you glad to live in America?’
Meanwhile this is what missionaries do in Haiti:
CW s-----l child abuse https://www.parentsformeganslaw.org/missionary-who-admits-to-sexually-abusing-boys-in-haiti-is-sentenced/
And the UN: CW child grooming https://theconversation.com/they-put-a-few-coins-in-your-hands-to-drop-a-baby-in-you-265-stories-of-haitian-children-abandoned-by-un-fathers-114854
And the fact that this person clearly thinks that they’re smarter and superior to every Haitian when they don’t even understand production. Racism is a disease, instead of trying to find the answer to this contradiction they conclude ‘because they’re African lol’ they genuinely believe the 67 IQ lie.
Having grown up around tons of evangelicals who often said shit like this after their missionary summer trips, hearing this conversation as an adult makes me want to fall facedown and turn into undifferentiated slime, the anger just hits the shutdown threshold instantly
Beyond the ability of most people, they visit the poorest places in the world, the places where human dignity is barely holding together, and instead of having even a taste of an understanding of the misery and injustice of it sink in, they bounce off and double down on their learned ability to dismiss the suffering of their fellow man. It took a lot of time to untangle the bitterness I developed toward these petty fucking emotional weaklings from religious people in general