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A lot of victim blaming in this thread.
I don't agree with their theological views, and I don't love that indoctrination is so often tied to humanitarian efforts.
But these are people who were trying to help out children in the middle of the second worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now, and the one that very very few people are giving much attention to as the other dominates news cycles and ~~most of the Western world has just written off Africa as a whole~~ (oops). (Also, I think this may be the only story about Hati on Lemmy in recent history, in fact).
They didn't 'deserve' getting brutally murdered for sticking around and not abandoning the children's schools and homes they spent the past decades cultivating.
They did a lot more to help people than I ever have, even if a key factor in their doing so was what I might consider delusional thinking.
And so even if I'm not a fan of some aspects of their lives, I respect what they did do, and think it's a bit fucked up to be making light of their deaths.
Haiti is not in Africa. Also, Biden literally announced a partnership with Kenya this week.
I agree with you overall though.
Goddamn, Americans and maps are a terrible combination.
I'm surprised myself at the amount of people wishing death onto others throughout this community. It's definitely weird to me.
If you want an unsettling thing to think about, look into Calhoun's rats.
Social media has essentially overcrowded our functional distance with one another.
You could be on a ranch with no one around for miles, and yet you have hundreds if not thousands of other people are directly interacting with you giving and competing for dopamine hits.
And just like the rats we now have people not leaving their domiciles, being apathetic, hedonistic, etc. We're mentally falling apart because we're just too overcrowded.
"Tankie!" "Fascist!" "Heathen!" "Religious nut!" "Zionist!" "Antisemite!"
(Eventually the rats end up eating each other.)
Yet here we both are. That dopamine drip sure is nice...
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So, we are 100% that they weren't proselytizing while doing their charity work?
It's sad they were killed but any sort of missionary work is colonialism. "Your religion isn't good enough. We're here to save you."
Additionally, they probably knew how dangerous it was. It's not they were killed doing missionary work in Denmark.
Absolutely one of the worst takes I've seen.
These aren't settlers and they weren't running a Canadian Indian school burying children out back either. Kids trying to share their beliefs (misguided as they may be) aren't colonizers and if they aren't welcome, execution is not the right answer you troglodyte.
It's not rocket science to expect a society to condemn extrajudicial violence. Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad about it.