I admit I’m also concerned even by some of the legit anti-trafficking organizations, as I keep coming across claims that the authorities are more likely to harass sex workers to turn somebody in as their “trafficker” or face arrest themselves, than they are to rescue people who’ve had their visas and passports taken hostage by their employers.
My fear is a whole lot of money going to Christian right "faith based" groups - maybe like those who run those rural "homes for wayward girls" which often seem to be excuses for gross uneducated preachers to satisfy their fetish for paddling teenage girls
As someone who works for a 501c3 that raises awareness of human trafficking, I can vouch for the fact that QAnon is doing more harm than good. A good portion of my day is spent wading through emails demanding that we investigate Tom Hanks and Chrissy Teigen and debunking all sorts of urban legends. Meanwhile, Doc hits the nail on the head that some of the most effective ways of combating human trafficking involve "wasteful" government spending on social programs, "SJW"-type efforts at combating homophobia and transphobia, and regulations undermining the ability to hold people in forced labor and debt bondage.
It is also disheartening how many people assume human trafficking = an innocent white women from a "good family" kidnapped by evil pimps or "furriners." When they start hearing about the intersection of race, class, and gender and human trafficking they balk. They REALLY dig in their heels when they hear that labor trafficking is a bigger issue than sex trafficking because how on earth are they going to be able to protect the purity of white girls and women when we keep bringing up those brown and black people?
No. It’s two journalists who do research on various topics. They interviewed a lot of people from these nonprofits as well as law enforcement and the stats on this are largely garbage from ages ago that reflect phone calls by concerned citizens, not actual missing people or evidence of people trafficked. Not sure why you think someone would come to a Wonkette article on human trafficking of all places to pimp out a podcast.
Maybe listen to it and ponder the issue. Obviously it happens sometimes like everything does but not anywhere near on the scale we’ve all been led to believe.
Yeeeahh . . . as you may be aware the anti-trafficking community is a hodge-podge of strange bedfellows consisting of advocates for the homeless, members of the clergy, law enforcement personnel, health care professionals, social workers, etc. Local media also has an unfortunate habit of shaming trafficking victims and survivors, as well as conflating them with voluntary sex workers (this conflation is an entire issue unto itself).
I imagine the readership of this site are people like me with curious minds and capability of independent thought. A lot of what they’ve discussed on that podcast is very eye opening like an episode they did on the linguistic backdrop of ebonics. I’m offering some food for thought for interested people. It’s not my podcast. I just think it’s very well done as well as entertaining.
pigtailed toddler taken from her mother in a grocery store
Is this the one whose abductors took the time to cut and dye her hair in the store’s washroom so nobody would recognize her when they left? /s
I admit I’m also concerned even by some of the legit anti-trafficking organizations, as I keep coming across claims that the authorities are more likely to harass sex workers to turn somebody in as their “trafficker” or face arrest themselves, than they are to rescue people who’ve had their visas and passports taken hostage by their employers.
Hey, don't insult Janet!
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My fear is a whole lot of money going to Christian right "faith based" groups - maybe like those who run those rural "homes for wayward girls" which often seem to be excuses for gross uneducated preachers to satisfy their fetish for paddling teenage girls
And no birth control or abortion talk either
My suspicion is the same. They always seem to find preferential slots.
Yeah, i definitely don't trust them. This seems like a good way to funnel money to "religious" groups seeking to impose a conservative agenda
"Trafficking support? services"? Shouldn't that be "Anti-trafficking support servies."
You are wrong.
As someone who works for a 501c3 that raises awareness of human trafficking, I can vouch for the fact that QAnon is doing more harm than good. A good portion of my day is spent wading through emails demanding that we investigate Tom Hanks and Chrissy Teigen and debunking all sorts of urban legends. Meanwhile, Doc hits the nail on the head that some of the most effective ways of combating human trafficking involve "wasteful" government spending on social programs, "SJW"-type efforts at combating homophobia and transphobia, and regulations undermining the ability to hold people in forced labor and debt bondage.
It is also disheartening how many people assume human trafficking = an innocent white women from a "good family" kidnapped by evil pimps or "furriners." When they start hearing about the intersection of race, class, and gender and human trafficking they balk. They REALLY dig in their heels when they hear that labor trafficking is a bigger issue than sex trafficking because how on earth are they going to be able to protect the purity of white girls and women when we keep bringing up those brown and black people?
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I remember that one! Don't worry - the store gave her parents a lifetime membership, so they're square.
No. It’s two journalists who do research on various topics. They interviewed a lot of people from these nonprofits as well as law enforcement and the stats on this are largely garbage from ages ago that reflect phone calls by concerned citizens, not actual missing people or evidence of people trafficked. Not sure why you think someone would come to a Wonkette article on human trafficking of all places to pimp out a podcast.
Maybe listen to it and ponder the issue. Obviously it happens sometimes like everything does but not anywhere near on the scale we’ve all been led to believe.
Yeeeahh . . . as you may be aware the anti-trafficking community is a hodge-podge of strange bedfellows consisting of advocates for the homeless, members of the clergy, law enforcement personnel, health care professionals, social workers, etc. Local media also has an unfortunate habit of shaming trafficking victims and survivors, as well as conflating them with voluntary sex workers (this conflation is an entire issue unto itself).
Janice! (Not Janet 😄)https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/r...
I imagine the readership of this site are people like me with curious minds and capability of independent thought. A lot of what they’ve discussed on that podcast is very eye opening like an episode they did on the linguistic backdrop of ebonics. I’m offering some food for thought for interested people. It’s not my podcast. I just think it’s very well done as well as entertaining.