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realityisinsanity ago

Do you think that Live Aid and We Are The World where just sex trafficking fronts?

kestrel9 ago

Setting aside the disclaimer about the good people doing good things among the often cited 'few bad apples' argument, the truth is the world of international charitable foundations has had it's ugly corrupted side exposed over the years. Sex trafficking is one aspect, child sex tourism is another, as is money laundering and meddling in politics. I haven't researched Live Aid and We are The World. As far as I recall, back then people didn't discuss organ harvesting, child sex tourism, human slave trafficking... look how far we've come.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/commentisfree/2015/jul/13/celebrity-save-africa-stereotypes-bob-geldof-live-aid

Bob Geldof was, in a sense, the pioneer of a new breed of celebrity “missionaries” with his efforts to end the Ethiopian famine. Yet, as American journalist David Rieff has noted, Live Aid’s donations to NGOs such as Oxfam and Save the Children also facilitated the displacement of 600,000 people by the autocratic Mengistu regime, resulting in an estimated 100,000 deaths.

Three decades after Live Aid, it is clear that celebrity efforts to “save Africa” have often done more to reinforce negative media stereotypes about the “dark continent” and to portray its one billion citizens as helpless victims in a new “white man’s burden”. The Economist, for example, depicted Africa as a “hopeless continent” in 2000, with its then Africa editor, Richard Dowden, penning an equally prejudiced cover story.

Often naive celebrities have burnished their own reputations as new missionaries of a troubled age: Geldof and Bono are seeking to “end poverty”, George Clooney is “saving” Darfur, Madonna has adopted children in Malawi as if buying new pets, while Prince Harry is on his way to Namibia to “save” the black rhino.

This cult of celebrity has often led to a dangerous dumbing down of serious issues, brushing aside other innovative and resilient grassroots efforts.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/peaches-geldof-faces-probe-naming-mothers-rape-victims-report-article-1.1532063

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2312632/Introducing-Satanic-sex-cult-thats-snaring-stars-Peaches-Geldof.html

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