Re:How I welcomed an immigrant family with a Linux laptop
by Someone1234 on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @10:16AM
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> First, the article is rather vacuous and chaotic in content, and so the motive for writing the article shifts toward drawing attention to oneself ("Oh, look how charitable I am!"). Charity doesn't do that.
There is no such thing as a selfless good deed, and a lot of philanthropists want people to know how good they are. But when selfless and selfish ambition align, as in the case of charity, society itself benefits. That's a good thing.
If a charity is legitimately disinterested in being recognized you never would have heard of it. This getting popular could help the concept spread.
> Second, the article seems to reinforce the condescending/patronizing attitude Americans often have toward immigrants when they're not busy hating them. The attitude consists in thinking that immigrants come from backward, horrible, uncivilized places and that the American is the noble, better educated, civilized, great benefactor.
Which exact text in the article gave you that impression? I feel like I am pretty sensitive to such tones but I didn't pick up any of that.
> Third, if you're paying $60 for a laptop, just pay for it yourself. Getting people to chip in for a 10 year old, $60 brick just looks really cheap. It's not much of a sacrifice, guy.
You too could chip in. As you yourself said, it isn't much of a sacrifice, so why don't you?
There is no such thing as a selfless good deed, and a lot of philanthropists want people to know how good they are. But when selfless and selfish ambition align, as in the case of charity, society itself benefits. That's a good thing.
If a charity is legitimately disinterested in being recognized you never would have heard of it. This getting popular could help the concept spread.
> Second, the article seems to reinforce the condescending/patronizing attitude Americans often have toward immigrants when they're not busy hating them. The attitude consists in thinking that immigrants come from backward, horrible, uncivilized places and that the American is the noble, better educated, civilized, great benefactor.
Which exact text in the article gave you that impression? I feel like I am pretty sensitive to such tones but I didn't pick up any of that.
> Third, if you're paying $60 for a laptop, just pay for it yourself. Getting people to chip in for a 10 year old, $60 brick just looks really cheap. It's not much of a sacrifice, guy.
You too could chip in. As you yourself said, it isn't much of a sacrifice, so why don't you?