Post by account_disabled on Mar 9, 2024 2:19:41 GMT -6
Some time ago, the famous singer, Ed Sheeran made a video with some poor children during a visit to Liberia. He was personally very moved by their plight and pledged to put them up in a hotel until a solution could be found. But if you think that many people felt good about the action that the singer did, you will be deeply mistaken. What followed was a whole campaign of criticism, led by the media and civil society activists, who accused him of 'voluntarism' or 'poverty tourism'.
The most serious criticism Cambodia Telegram Number Data of him? It is making 'porn with poverty'. I have seen the same wave of reactions from politics, the media and civil society a few weeks ago when a well-known British journalist did almost the same thing. The wave of attitudes was simply astounding. A question that arises in such cases is how a society has managed to create the 'antibodies' necessary to stop such displays of shame, which, first of all, hurt human dignity and, above all, do not provide a solution to the problem of poverty.
The reason is simple: because they took this problem off their backs before, in the 1980s when it was also the 'golden age of charity campaigns'. An explosion of pictures of malnourished children became such a problem that the media were the first to rush to set some standards and red lines, calling it inappropriate to use the images to generate audience, monetary income or political gain. So strict was the media in this regard, believe it or not, even a successful film like 'Slumdog Millionaire' is labeled as 'poverty porn'.
The most serious criticism Cambodia Telegram Number Data of him? It is making 'porn with poverty'. I have seen the same wave of reactions from politics, the media and civil society a few weeks ago when a well-known British journalist did almost the same thing. The wave of attitudes was simply astounding. A question that arises in such cases is how a society has managed to create the 'antibodies' necessary to stop such displays of shame, which, first of all, hurt human dignity and, above all, do not provide a solution to the problem of poverty.
The reason is simple: because they took this problem off their backs before, in the 1980s when it was also the 'golden age of charity campaigns'. An explosion of pictures of malnourished children became such a problem that the media were the first to rush to set some standards and red lines, calling it inappropriate to use the images to generate audience, monetary income or political gain. So strict was the media in this regard, believe it or not, even a successful film like 'Slumdog Millionaire' is labeled as 'poverty porn'.