YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoDutch king and queen are confronted by angry protesters on visit to a slavery museum in South Africaapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up1294arrow-down112
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minus-squareUnspecificGravity@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·9 months agoDo they frequently go on poverty tourism to enjoy the spectacle of cultures their people have destroyed? It’s that helpful to your country?
minus-squareSarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoDoes that mean you just never visit a country poorer than you lest someone on the internet decides there’s a problem with it? How do we expect elites to understand things if we get mad at them for seeing it first hand?
minus-squareUnspecificGravity@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoI’m not the head of state of a nation that built my personal wealth from the slave trade.
Do they frequently go on poverty tourism to enjoy the spectacle of cultures their people have destroyed? It’s that helpful to your country?
Does that mean you just never visit a country poorer than you lest someone on the internet decides there’s a problem with it?
How do we expect elites to understand things if we get mad at them for seeing it first hand?
I’m not the head of state of a nation that built my personal wealth from the slave trade.
I would hope not.