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anonopen
this board is for high-quality debate and will be moderated more strictly than other boards. please be rigorous and charitable, cite sources, and try to remain relatively civil
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「Religious Charities」

anonopen
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This is kind of on a whim, but i've been catching some more episodes of hot bench and judge judy, and on that i've also been catching some more holiday advertisements from the Union Gospel Mission and the Salvation Army non profit groups. I get stuck of course though when thinking of like, any of the numerous anti lgbt tumbled stumbles and shittery the two organizations have gone through.
The abuse of using their position and reputation as non profit charities to push out discriminatory views on those reliant in them is gross. And then secular non profits get the short end if the stick because they have less support; not to mention government funded housing or food services.

https://komonews.com/news/local/gospel-mission-anti-lgbtq-hiring-policy-suit-to-be-reviewed
https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2017/04/24/transgender-woman-asked-leave-mission/100856442/
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/12/16/21003560/salvation-army-anti-lgbtq-controversies-donations

Feel free to give your own thoughts stories (anecdotal or from news sources), i just kinda wanted to get this discussion out; I'd love to hear other thoughts :)
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anon
I love the fact that being religious gives them
anon
#deliberalize (USER WAS DELIBERALIZED FOR THIS POST)
anon
There's something sketchy about saying improving your community should only happen through powerful groups who U have to join, but there's also something sketchy about not fighting for your own group because other groups attacking you feels bad
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「How to be nice to global south countries as a birth citizen」

anonopen
“ palestine, sudan, ukraine and congo are right now suffering. the west could interfere, but nothing happens...
damn i think we should discuss this in libpol instead of here. opworm would be proud tbh”
And also sometimes when the west DOES interfere it steals from them or hurts them too : (
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anon
>>25087
very good idea bad people always arise in times of conflict
anon
>>25090
yeah religions are part of the problem for real. it’s like trying to broker peace in Europe based on having a bunch of ethnic nation states. they’re always going to want to fight
anon
i probably should make sure i never buy stock in a company which does evil stuff but it's so hard to keep track or trust someone to tell me where to send my money.

do you think a good definition for exploit is leaving people worse than they otherwise would be? because i do support people with money playing poor people to do things for them so long as the poor are getting richer. like i doubt you could go to congo and get any benefit out of trying to pay them 100,000 dollars per year because there's not much most of them can do that's worth that, but i think what usually happens is they get peanuts and their government and environment are made worse and they never get better

like the American colonies and Singapore and Japan did the working for cheap and then getting rich and it worked out. i assume it has something to do with flows of capital and foreign ownership but idk. probably companies should have to be owned fairly locally, but I know that’s tough. I would also say they should be kept small, but I think Japan was fairly centralized when they got better. they still didn’t have monopolies though I don’t think.
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「autism as a wilful, chosen trait」

crimesopen
if neuroplasticity is a thing, can't autistic people just "exercise" their brain and get better at the things they are defficient in?
or is autism something inherent that cannot be trained out in this way?
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anon
neuroplasticity doesn't mean the structure of the brain is completely arbitrary.
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anon
>>24711
it would if it were total. (it’s over)
#itsover
anon
#itisover