missionaries

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antarchi's picture

Many resistance movements in poor countries which are fighting huge injustice and questioning the underlying principles of what constitutes "liberation" and "development" view human rights non-government organizations as modern-day missionaries who have come to take the ugly edge off imperialism - to defuse political anger and to maintain the status quo.
Arundhati Roy, in Peace Without Justice is Capitulation to Corporate Coups
I worry that she is right not only in perceiving that to be the way 'we' are perceived; but even that she is right that that is all we are. Her nuggets are littered all over this site, they are so golden.
Perhaps most importantly, and a clear message for the international HRE missionaries: "talking of justice without unmasking the institutions and the systems that perpetrate injustice is beyond hypocritical." So let us not aim to be 'neutral' and 'non-political' - unless we are aiming to be hypocritical.

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