Fuck Oxfam

That comparison spring to my mind too

It really is hard to believe that Oxfam, as one of the biggest uk based charities, has created this content. First, it looks so childish and the tone of the message is childish on what is a serious topic. Second, it is so utterly racist with the skin colouring of ‘black’ and ‘yellow’ (!!) men and those faces.

As if created by some very young, very uninformed teenagers. I can hardly believe that this had the sign off from Oxfam head office. I assumed lessons had been learned after Haiti, but, all told, and going by the additional information provided on this thread, I won’t be donating to or buying from them anymore.

Just peeling my gift aid label off a box of nice stuff which was headed their way this morning.

Never again.

Oxfam UK has suspended their Twitter account. Someone said the film is from Oxfam International, although I presume Oxfam UK shared it. Anyway they are obviously worried, whether it will make any difference though who knows….

"An Oxfam staff training document says “privileged white women” are supporting the root causes of sexual violence by wanting "bad men" imprisoned.
“Mainstream feminism is supporting, not undoing, the root causes of sexual violence.”
“legitimises criminal punishment, harming black and other marginalised people”.

🤯

How do people come up with this?
How can someone write it down, and someone else (presumably) sign it off to be published?
How can anyone look at this twisted drivel and think ‘Yep, that’s exactly how it is. Let’s put it out there.’

Please find your local small charity dealing with poverty or similar and volunteer with them instead they are likely to be struggling as most of the money from trusts goes to the big charities with their big fundraising teams.

My heart hurts for the recipients of international aid as money donated in good faith gets spent producing hate material like this instead.

I'm really not surprised by that given what I know of oxfam employees.

Misogynistic and racist. Well done oxfam.

I can't boycott because I haven't give them a penny since I found out about the sexual abuse in Haiti.

I wonder where Oxfam shops would be without the middle aged and elderly women they so clearly despise?

I know students volunteer too but they're only about two thirds of the year. Retired women are their backbone, at least round here.

(Sorry if that's been said a zillion times already but I'm too cross to read the whole thread first.)

Apologies if I’ve missed someone else posting this

Years back I fundrose for Oxfam. Raised over £50,000. I remember someone coming up to me and telling me how corrupt the people running Oxfam were. I was a younger gardinia then and I'm afraid it all just bounced off my arrogant assurance that he was some xenophobic bigot. I don't recall actually engaging with his arguments at all - just repeating the Oxfam lines. He walked off and I'm afraid I probably had a smug smile on my face.

It's amazing how arrogantly certain of our moral superiority we can be when we are young. And how easily we can be used because of it.

This is everywhere. Universities are churning out people whose main skill set is to support each other into getting into leadership positions and then repurposing the organization to other ends. It will take active organization to stop it.

That is awful.

Wow. That article about reporting rape being contemptible! Oxfam should be shut down!

Who do they think supports charities and buys from their shops?
They are certainly living in a bubble.

For anyone stopping their direct debits/standing orders, make sure you check if you need to do so directly from your bank, not just expecting oxfam to stop taking the money.

Seems to be from OxfamIndia, would that explain it. The person got mixed up with the country.

I nearly went in an Oxfam on Sunday, then I remembered I wasn't spending my money there because of their previous misogyny. I'm glad I didn't because this...this is off the charts.

I work in a sector where many of my colleagues have worked for Oxfam in the past and some of the stuff that went on and was covered up is awful. Not very charity focused. More money making.

I’ve just emailed to cancel my subscription and the automatic reply says they’re “experiencing higher volumes”.

Likewise

It feels like we've fallen down the rabbit hole. I don't understand how everyone isn't completely outraged. How can anyone nod away and support all of this?

They're being ratioed to fuck in the comments below the YouTube video

Good.

On a practical point, I seriously doubt that Oxfam is effective in channelling money raised to disasters. They've shown they're untrustworthy and I bet that's financial as well as moral. There are other charities who operate more effectively in disaster situations, where more of the money gets to the people in need. Even on that narrow metric alone, Oxfam is not the best bet. A lot of the big charities have lots of staff on big salaries and high overheads - smaller charities seem to be a lot better at getting money to people in need as well as being transparent, and also tend not to patronise and bully the people they're supposed to be helping (what if the people in disaster zones believe in biological reality i.e. are 'terfs'? Will they check their thinking before helping them?).

Onjali Rauf has a charity helping refugees. They have a form you can fill in if you wish to volunteer. Might be worth giving that a go.

thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/me-not-you-by-alison-phipps/

A book by a white, middle class female professor reviewed by another white, middle class, female professor! It's a dog-eat-dog world in the humanities departments in universities! "Please don't hate us for our white privilege. Look we hate ourselves too!" I wonder if white, male academics have to engage in similar self-immolation?

@GulesMeansRed I fully agree with @dimorphism and @Clymene , i certainly wouldn't give my time and labour free, gratis and for nothing, to a charity that thinks you're scum! You're doing them a favour, meanwhile, they are being paid a fortune for doing sod all other than walking all over you as if you're some sort of worthless doormat.
There are plenty of other charities that are crying out for help where you might find that you are valued and appreciated. If you continue to put up with being treat in that manner by oxfam, they'll take it as tacit support and will continue to stamp and walk all over you, with their big, dirty jackboots.
From what i can tell, the ceo earns??? almost £120K per year, not much poverty in his house is there?! And you put up with that treatment for nothing?

I get the impression Oxfam aren’t that interested in their shops, my local high street is teeming with quality charity shops that have each found their own niche (designer handbags/books/mountains of shoes) and are always busy, apart from the Oxfam shop which is sparse, rarely open and smells terrible (is that the damp?).