Since Boris was made Prime Minister they have tried to circumcise him but cannot because there is no end to the prick

timmydownawell wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 7:53 am
The critical appraisal examined the history and politics of these circumcision campaigns in the context of race and colonialism, and found that they had been started in haste and without sufficient contextual research. The paper concluded that the campaigns have been carried out in a manner that implies troubling assumptions about culture, health and sexuality in Africa. Africans were underrepresented in the decision making process, and needed a greater voice in the planning of such an intimate health intervention.

Full article: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 091020.php

So, Africa gets a charitable gift that prevents a lot of HIV and deaths and then some people complain Africans were underrepresented in the decision to do it (the head of the WHO is African and it employs a lot of other Africans in its HQ in Geneva). And what would the troubling assumption about sexuality be? That some of them are gay? Haha.

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 2:31 am The solution is simple (and harsh). Don’t do it. No free circumcisions. No clean water. No rice or flour or grain. No security.

The only solution to political correctness run amok. Give them what they want.

Which is nothing.

That may be going a bit too far. Listen to Prof Angus Deaton:

So let me say a little bit about foreign aid. I’m in favor of foreign aid, so it’s the kind of foreign aid that we’re talking about. And the kind of foreign aid I think is terrific is the sort of, if you like, the foreign aid that builds global public goods or that does work on health. For instance, there’s enormous advances in the understanding of HIV/AIDS, for instance, and vaccinations, and so on. These were all discovered and developed in the First World—there are a few exceptions—and gifted, as it were, to the Third World, and did enormous amounts of useful things there in saving people’s lives.

What Dr. Falk was referring to is I worry a lot about African countries where almost all government expenditure is coming from external sources. And that, to me, is the really crazy thing. And those governments have no incentives at all to respond to their people, because the only incentives the have are to deal with the aid agencies and to work with the aid agencies.

The China and India example she gave if you look at the percentage of GDP that India and China have had as aid, it’s completely trivial. Those are the great success stories. The stories that look very bad are the African ones. And if you just read the African literature and you read people who’ve worked there and worked with the aid agencies and worked with the governments, the corruptive effect of aid on these governments, of them turning away from their people, is just astronomical.

So I think—I accept the moral responsibility of us who are so well-off to do something about these people who are so poorly—so poor. But the moral responsibility we also have is not to hurt them, and I think a lot of aid has, unfortunately, been hurting. Not that every project is bad, but I think the long-term consequences.

So I would have a policy that says no government in Africa should be getting more than 20 percent of its government revenue on a permanent basis from abroad. Otherwise, it’s just not going to work. You need a contract between the government and the people if the country is going to develop at all.

Source: https://www.cfr.org/event/angus-deaton- ... inequality

So, the answer is to do the right thing and tell the moaners to STFU.

armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:32 am

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 2:31 am The solution is simple (and harsh). Don’t do it. No free circumcisions. No clean water. No rice or flour or grain. No security.

The only solution to political correctness run amok. Give them what they want.

Which is nothing.

That may be going a bit too far. Listen to Prof Angus Deaton:

So let me say a little bit about foreign aid. I’m in favor of foreign aid, so it’s the kind of foreign aid that we’re talking about. And the kind of foreign aid I think is terrific is the sort of, if you like, the foreign aid that builds global public goods or that does work on health. For instance, there’s enormous advances in the understanding of HIV/AIDS, for instance, and vaccinations, and so on. These were all discovered and developed in the First World—there are a few exceptions—and gifted, as it were, to the Third World, and did enormous amounts of useful things there in saving people’s lives.

What Dr. Falk was referring to is I worry a lot about African countries where almost all government expenditure is coming from external sources. And that, to me, is the really crazy thing. And those governments have no incentives at all to respond to their people, because the only incentives the have are to deal with the aid agencies and to work with the aid agencies.

The China and India example she gave if you look at the percentage of GDP that India and China have had as aid, it’s completely trivial. Those are the great success stories. The stories that look very bad are the African ones. And if you just read the African literature and you read people who’ve worked there and worked with the aid agencies and worked with the governments, the corruptive effect of aid on these governments, of them turning away from their people, is just astronomical.

So I think—I accept the moral responsibility of us who are so well-off to do something about these people who are so poorly—so poor. But the moral responsibility we also have is not to hurt them, and I think a lot of aid has, unfortunately, been hurting. Not that every project is bad, but I think the long-term consequences.

So I would have a policy that says no government in Africa should be getting more than 20 percent of its government revenue on a permanent basis from abroad. Otherwise, it’s just not going to work. You need a contract between the government and the people if the country is going to develop at all.

Source: https://www.cfr.org/event/angus-deaton- ... inequality

So, the answer is to do the right thing and tell the moaners to STFU.

He was much more fun when presenting "Have I Got News For You"