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ProudLib72

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10. I don't doubt it for a second

Reply to IluvPitties (Reply #9)

Thu Jun 14, 2018, 09:53 PM

Jun 2018

Who controlled the narrative? It wasn't the people she was "helping". So what you have to ask about her is, Why did she do it? Was she super into converting people? Did she have an overpowering desire to be a saint? It sounds like she hated the work.

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Mother Teresa was a vile, horrible woman basing her work on white privilege [View all] ProudLib72 Jun 2018 OP

Agreed! NurseJackie Jun 2018 #1

She believed suffering made people closer to god... cynatnite Jun 2018 #2

Yet she is now canonized! A real saint! ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #3

Sure, as long as it was other people who were doing the suffering. Mariana Jun 2018 #11

No. She made her charges suffer when she had the means to relieve their suffering. smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #15

She had no problem going abroad for treatment Jake Stern Jun 2018 #4

Well, of course no one is a saint to their critics. But ffs, to Wwcd Jun 2018 #5

You are referring to the "Complicated Women" article, right? ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #6

I don't criticize her at all considering the way women were viewed back then. Wwcd Jun 2018 #8

there is a direct and blatant connection from the American Eugenics movement directly to Hitler Exotica Jun 2018 #20

This is a very tricky subject ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #23

The American eugenics movement was incredibly damaging to the lives thucythucy Jun 2018 #27

I wasn't commenting on Sanger specifically, moreso the overall American Exotica Jun 2018 #29

Eh Loki Liesmith Jun 2018 #7

When she visited Puerto Rico IluvPitties Jun 2018 #9

I don't doubt it for a second ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #10

She enjoyed watching poor people suffer. Mariana Jun 2018 #12

Until it came time for her to suffer. Then suddenly her opinion changed. smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #16

She didn't believe in contraception. Rhythm method or NFP bitterross Jun 2018 #13

She was just a fucking idiot and a cruel person. smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #17

She and her fellow nuns were questioned seriously about finances... Archae Jun 2018 #14

No it didn't. The money went to the Holy See. leftyladyfrommo Jun 2018 #26

She's dead. She's been dead twenty years. struggle4progress Jun 2018 #18

And Einstein and Walt Whitman... ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #19

but Einstein and Whitman actually did something positive JI7 Jun 2018 #21

That's somewhat subjective ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #24

What's up with Whitman? thucythucy Jun 2018 #28

Here you go ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #31

Yikes! thucythucy Jun 2018 #32

Hi ProudLib syringis Jun 2018 #22

Hi Syringis! ProudLib72 Jun 2018 #25

I followed Mother Theresa fir years. leftyladyfrommo Jun 2018 #30

I agree with you, she went where no else would go and worked with what she had, and braddy Jun 2018 #33