To actually hate that Oxfam 'lift' advert?

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Those people are actors. Paid to dress in ragged clothes and grubbing in the dust.

My not irrational hatred may be fuelled by the fact that I am phoned by Oxfam at least twice a week asking for more money and extra donations. Usually the phonecslls hsppen when I am asleep after a night shift. They will not leave me alone.

And I think paying actors to pretend they are poverty struck indians is very wrong.

I love it. It is uplifting and positive rather than the usual depressing charity adverts.

5wh

The usual depressing real people?

Wow...what an over reaction to what I said. I called the adverts depressing, not the people. Seeing emaciated children on the brink of death is depressing.

I like the advert.

I can see why the phonecalls are getting to you. I think I'd contact someone high up and tell them that the phonecalls are leading you to resent them and you may chose to donate to a different charity as a result.

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YANBU, it curls my hair too. I think there are question marks about where money given to Oxfam ends up - fuelling their endless bizarrely expensive corporate activity, seems to me

Despite them being actors, I actually like the aim and tone of the advert not enough to make me want to give to Oxfam though

I like it.
I hate vague but potentially incredibly comments like you just made rooty

Incredibly damaging, that should be

helpyourself, I did think about that, but then decided it was ok to put my perception? Oxfam has got on my wick for years. endless phonecalls, pens, condescending ads. I will try to look for some back up info later when dd is asleep.

rootypig

YANBU, it curls my hair too. I think there are question marks about where money given to Oxfam ends up - fuelling their endless bizarrely expensive corporate activity, seems to me

It's more worrying about where money comes from to be given to Oxfam in the first place. The FakeCharities website hasn't been updated in a while, but they calculated that in 2010/11 over a quarter of Oxfam's income came directly from the taxpayer - a total of £83.8 million. The EU gave Oxfam £42.5m, the DFID gave them £11m, the rest came from the UN and other governments.

So all I can find with the time I'm willing to give up is Givewell's rating, which was 2009 and out of date. I hold my hands up and say that all I'm giving is my opinion, but there has always been something worryingly slick about them, somehow. Using actors to play impoverished people has arguments each way I think, but it speaks to the performative aspect to Oxfam that I personally have never liked.

(And I'm aware I sound pretty churlish!)