Date: Aug. 23rd, 2003 06:38 am (UTC)
Quoting girlfriend from other room, "Tell her there's a whole documentary about it. I forget the name of the documentarian, but she made dirty deals for years---with people like with Qaddafyi---giving them her morale blessing in exchange for cash. She refused to treat sick people who she felt were sinners; she was abusive to her staff members. All in the name of good Christian charity."

"The other thing is ---so, she's situated in the middle of a country whose health crises are directly related to their uncontrolled population growth, and she refused to give any information or assist women in any way in controlling their reproductivity. And that's bad. Of course she wouldn't allow abortions or give any information about them, either. So, you know, she's supposedly treating all these poor women and children, and what many of the women wanted was a way to control the number of children they were having, which was affecting their health and their children's health."

"I guess to me what makes her evil in a way that's different from other benevolent colonizers is that she's held up to be a paragon of virtue, and her mission in India was much, much more complicated than that---and in some ways, I think, injurious."
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