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[terabient]

Hey humanity, it's not that hard to act appropriately in the aftermath of a horrific natural disaster.

-Give what you can, when you can.
-If someone can't or won't give, ffs don't get all high and mighty and try to shame them into doing something. Giving aid is a wonderful act and one that is desperately needed, but even so - no one is obligated to do anything. Do not assume a person is in a position to give more than they have, or give at all. Ask, encourage, but do not judge.
-If you are one of those people who feel the need to dismiss the entirety of the quake/tsunami disaster because you don't know any Japanese personally/hate anime/j-pop/games/whatever - you are a gigantic gaping asshole. This is non-negotiable. You are a hateful creature whose opinion merits no serious consideration whatsoever.
-If you are one of those people who have decided this tragedy is a great plot device for your slash j-pop fic, you are going to the Special Hell. Yes - the one with the child molesters and the people who talk during movies.

Seriously, people. Do good when you can. Move along quietly if you can't. IS IT THAT HARD TO BE DECENT.

Comments

[snapcakes.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! And you know who's obligated to give?! Every single one of the sparkling bright-white overprivileged churches I have set foot in in my life. EVERY ONE. They suck up tithes like Biblemonsters and vomit them out in the form of renovations and overpriced youth activities. They poured money into all the glamorous disasters befalling people they could recognize from the weepy sponsorship ads their people produce, as they should have, but now? Only the more "liberal" churches are giving. Apparently Jesus only cares about the naked and hungry if it's their default state. Weird, mostly non-Christian foreigners who live lives that look a lot like our own but wear crosses with as much knowledge and sincerity of a Gen-Xer with a Yin & Yang tattoo aren't really on the radar. alksjdglkasbdkjyrblarewk

[theplaidsheep.livejournal.com]

This! It reminds me of the Haiti last year, so many churches - and I mean mainly independent sects - sending aid to those poor folks and using it as cover for their missions. They're not interested in giving aid if it doesn't produce converts and they'd have a very hard time in Japan trying.

What gets me even more is that just yesterday I read an article on the BBC website where a cardinal was bemoaning that 75% of religious persecution around the world was against christians, and had the temerity to accuse UK foreign aid policy as anti-christian. Considering this 75% figure was produced by an organisation which is part of the catholic church, you'll excuse me while I accuse the catholic church of extreme bias. I imagine that an awful lot of this persecution is actually christianity losing it's privileged status as the state religion in a lot of countries and suddenly discovering that it's now on a level with all the others.

[terabient]

i do think part of the reason large-scale donations have been lagging so badly is due to the lack of established aid channels - Haiti, for example, has been the recipient of international and private aid for years, and that kind of 'giving' is less selfless donating as it is a business transaction - organizations gave because they could keep tabs on their 'aid' and would, in some way, see a return on it. I would not be at all surprised to find that organizations/countries are wary of giving money because there isn't the 'guarantee' of certain outcomes that they can demand from countries like Haiti.

And yeah, you can never discount religious and racial bigotry as a major factor when it comes to giving help.


sometimes it is very hard to have faith in the world ._.