tI don't understand why the Global Health experts even need to say "the field worked to aid the advancement of colonialism and empire." So did the railroad system in India, but India would have been nuts to dismantle that system when it won independence instead of building on what was there. Even China under Mao wasn't defensive about saving the beautiful wharfs (like the Bund in Shanghai) and cultural artifacts (temples, the Great Wall, etc) by colonizers or hated feudal warlords. The Chinese recognized these cultural stand-outs wouldn't be there today without the hard labor of the Chinese underclasses. They built on their troubled past. I don't believe the people who play 'lived experience' against scientific discoveries are 'well--intentioned'. Many discoveries in science, art or manufacturing happened under regimes that the narrow-minded would hate. Don't not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Build on the past and weed out inequality instead of assuming colonialism is somehow baked into everything modern.
First of all, with the globalization of travel, there are very good reasons to ensure the health and safety of travelers/traders/business people to other countries, and to do that, it makes sense to extend those concerns to the citizens of those countries, and assist them with those health issues.
Continuing to delegate people into "oppressed" vs "oppressor" categories will only serve to generate ill feelings and hatred between those groups. It is one thing to act as a colonizer to exploit or enslave the local populace, it is quite another to offer help and solutions to serious problems in those populations.
Is DGH the early 21st century's version of Lysenkoism? If medical science does not support your political and social ambitions, invent a version of medical science that does and let the people be damned.
"...there is nothing exclusively Western about reason, humanism, and the scientific method." This is the true battleground. We are in a fight for Reason just as fundamental as those fought centuries ago. And currently our knowledge elites are cowed by the irrationalists. Who stands to suffer most? The poor of course, the very people these preening sophists claim to champion. In this case they want to take their medicine away. With solar and wind, they want to take their ability to power a modern economy away, denying them hydro and nuclear in the process. They take their police protection away, their motivation to be productive away, their healthy disdain of drugs away. The list goes on.
tI don't understand why the Global Health experts even need to say "the field worked to aid the advancement of colonialism and empire." So did the railroad system in India, but India would have been nuts to dismantle that system when it won independence instead of building on what was there. Even China under Mao wasn't defensive about saving the beautiful wharfs (like the Bund in Shanghai) and cultural artifacts (temples, the Great Wall, etc) by colonizers or hated feudal warlords. The Chinese recognized these cultural stand-outs wouldn't be there today without the hard labor of the Chinese underclasses. They built on their troubled past. I don't believe the people who play 'lived experience' against scientific discoveries are 'well--intentioned'. Many discoveries in science, art or manufacturing happened under regimes that the narrow-minded would hate. Don't not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Build on the past and weed out inequality instead of assuming colonialism is somehow baked into everything modern.
First of all, with the globalization of travel, there are very good reasons to ensure the health and safety of travelers/traders/business people to other countries, and to do that, it makes sense to extend those concerns to the citizens of those countries, and assist them with those health issues.
Continuing to delegate people into "oppressed" vs "oppressor" categories will only serve to generate ill feelings and hatred between those groups. It is one thing to act as a colonizer to exploit or enslave the local populace, it is quite another to offer help and solutions to serious problems in those populations.
Is DGH the early 21st century's version of Lysenkoism? If medical science does not support your political and social ambitions, invent a version of medical science that does and let the people be damned.
'Malaria' and other tropical diseases were invented by white people to oppress black people. We need a vaccine for racism which is the real problem.
Both pro-Western civilisation mythology actors and anti-West movements tend to be anti-global and anti-cosmopolitan. Instead of demanding a better global governance on health https://www.democracywithoutborders.org/12901/we-need-a-global-health-system-to-deal-with-pandemics/
"...there is nothing exclusively Western about reason, humanism, and the scientific method." This is the true battleground. We are in a fight for Reason just as fundamental as those fought centuries ago. And currently our knowledge elites are cowed by the irrationalists. Who stands to suffer most? The poor of course, the very people these preening sophists claim to champion. In this case they want to take their medicine away. With solar and wind, they want to take their ability to power a modern economy away, denying them hydro and nuclear in the process. They take their police protection away, their motivation to be productive away, their healthy disdain of drugs away. The list goes on.