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‘White saviours’ belong in the 1980s. Let’s keep them there (alrighty then)
The Guardian UK ^ | 28 Feb 2019 | Gabby Hinsliff

Posted on 02/28/2019 3:58:43 PM PST by blueplum

Bare-faced and clad in jeans, clutching a rather uncertain-looking black toddler on her hip, Stacey Dooley stands beaming in the dust of a parched African landscape. At first glance you could mistake it for a gap year snapshot, destined to be pinned up somewhere in a student bedroom. Dooley is, of course, one of the breakout stars of this year’s Strictly Come Dancing, and the picture was taken in Uganda, where she is making a film for the upcoming Comic Relief...(snip)

Which is perhaps why the Labour MP David Lammy touched such a nerve when he responded to the image by tweeting that “the world doesn’t need any more white saviours”, or western do-gooders flying in, believing they are solving the developing world’s problems while blissfully ignorant of the colonial baggage they carry...(snip)

... the campaign group No White Saviors, which in criticising the Dooley picture made it clear it doesn’t want to stop white people coming to Africa, merely to stop white people making themselves the hero of the story. What makes that so difficult for some to take is that it isn’t just about asking one presenter to take a back seat, but also all those viewers who unconsciously identify with her.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: comicrelief; nobordersracists; nowhitesallowed; nowhitesaviors; racebaitersunite; racism
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White folk apparently are not allowed to return to the cradle of civilization; black, Asian and arab colonialization was just a dream and only white colonialism, that interrupted revenge wars, slavery, infanticide and abject poverty, matters. But don't forget to send your money and charity. That's ok. In fact, it's demanded, according to race-baiters everywhere. But I have a question for them: how long is a developing nation considered 'developing' because some of these guys have been 'developing' for over 100 years and are still barbaric.
1 posted on 02/28/2019 3:58:43 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Don’t come to white-established countries looking for a better life either.


2 posted on 02/28/2019 4:01:00 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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I partially agree with the Guardian: we should stop trying to save Africa and the rest of the Third World. It’s a thankless task, and I’d rather we mind our own business.


3 posted on 02/28/2019 4:02:02 PM PST by DesScorp
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Dear Africa:

We want our Live Aid money back.

Cordially,

The 1980's

4 posted on 02/28/2019 4:06:59 PM PST by Viking2002
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No more White Saviors.

But Bono is expecting to be grandfathered in.

5 posted on 02/28/2019 4:08:42 PM PST by x
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To: DesScorp

Same here. I’d rather help our own citizens first.


6 posted on 02/28/2019 4:08:50 PM PST by vpintheak (Stop making stupid people famous!)
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To: DesScorp

This article is correct, but for the wrong reasons. Why does Nepal or Senegal need Americans to dig wells or install water purification systems? What’s wrong with their local government or citizens?

Lots of suburban kids in our area go on these “missions.” Raise money to send a white kid to hug black children in Haiti for a week.


7 posted on 02/28/2019 4:12:54 PM PST by PGR88
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To: blueplum

Africa
Wins
Again

L


8 posted on 02/28/2019 4:14:20 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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Does that mean Italians are no longer welcome in Britain? If it wasn’t for Roman colonization brits would still be living in huts and painting themselves blue.


9 posted on 02/28/2019 4:26:14 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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For God’s Sake, Please Stop The Aid
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/spiegel-interview-with-african-economics-expert-for-god-s-sake-please-stop-the-aid-a-363663.html


10 posted on 02/28/2019 4:29:22 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Wow, I agree with THIS brand of multiculturalist...!

Yes, DO NOT help Africa..!

What a strange feeling.

LIBERATING..!


11 posted on 02/28/2019 4:32:42 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

You don’t think the natives of Britain would ever have advanced, independently, beyond the Neolithic?


12 posted on 02/28/2019 4:38:03 PM PST by Tax-chick (Please, SMOD, just make it all go away.)
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blissfully ignorant of the colonial baggage they carry

The colonization of the non-western world did much to elevate most of that world from the ignorance and poverty it was in.

13 posted on 02/28/2019 4:47:15 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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I agree. Our Catholic school has senior mission trips to central america to build concrete block”schools” and crap. And they come back with slide shows of all the wonderful people they met, who didn’t seem the least bit retarded or physically disabled. Never understood it, myself, and never gave any money.


14 posted on 02/28/2019 4:58:20 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Don’t think there aren’t more than a few Brits who would love that.


15 posted on 02/28/2019 4:58:22 PM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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No. Not without Christianity. Rome did some, but it wasn’t until Christianity that the savages really stopped being savage and actually started doing things productive and moved beyond tribalism.


16 posted on 02/28/2019 4:59:38 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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That’s an interesting view that fits with much current evidence. Today, all the knowledge and physical plant to build civilization is available to all, but it doesn’t happen for all. There have to be intervening factors that prevent people in many countries from taking the complete works of Thomas Sowell and the world’s scientific knowledge and become decent spots for people.


17 posted on 02/28/2019 5:02:44 PM PST by Tax-chick (Please, SMOD, just make it all go away.)
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To: blueplum

I always thought we should make them colonies again.


18 posted on 02/28/2019 5:16:29 PM PST by fruser1
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What would we gain?


19 posted on 02/28/2019 5:26:32 PM PST by Tax-chick (Please, SMOD, just make it all go away.)
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To: DesScorp

Stacey Dooley is a brave young Englishwoman who has confronted Muslims who have taken over her town of Luton. She’ll get in their face and ask the right questions; only the presence of cameras keeps her alive & unharmed, IMO.


20 posted on 02/28/2019 5:57:21 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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