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I like what she's doing. Not just saving the malnourished kids, but spreading the video footage and context as far as she can make it reach.
If the norms of that region are going to change, the first step of the process is to make it known to the west what those norms are. With this video comes the information that Loven runs a charity dedicated specifically to finding witch children, an implication that this is a widespread part of west african culture rather than an isolated incident.
If nothing else, a video like this serves as a wakeup call to a certain segment of the population. If this is the kind of thing africans get up to, and we can't shame them into changing their ways by posting videos of the kids they starve, maybe it's a bad idea to import these guys.
When I think of some no name orphanage in the danish countryside which specializes in taking in african kids and quietly raising them, I think "meh, there's bigger fish to fry, better things you can be doing." But I still take issue with people bagging on this woman. Why? Because she's going out of her way to publicize the witch kid phenomenon - that's a battle worth fighting. It's shining a light on a darker aspect of third world culture and packaging the message in a very palatable way. We really do need more of that.
If she didn't rescue the kids, she wouldn't have enough clout to make a video like this go viral.
If the norms of that region are going to change, the first step of the process is to make it known to the west what those norms are. With this video comes the information that Loven runs a charity dedicated specifically to finding witch children, an implication that this is a widespread part of west african culture rather than an isolated incident.
If nothing else, a video like this serves as a wakeup call to a certain segment of the population. If this is the kind of thing africans get up to, and we can't shame them into changing their ways by posting videos of the kids they starve, maybe it's a bad idea to import these guys.
When I think of some no name orphanage in the danish countryside which specializes in taking in african kids and quietly raising them, I think "meh, there's bigger fish to fry, better things you can be doing." But I still take issue with people bagging on this woman. Why? Because she's going out of her way to publicize the witch kid phenomenon - that's a battle worth fighting. It's shining a light on a darker aspect of third world culture and packaging the message in a very palatable way. We really do need more of that.
If she didn't rescue the kids, she wouldn't have enough clout to make a video like this go viral.
