Because the Red Cross is America, and particularly supports the American military, and is particularly tied in with American business. The Red Cross sells the blood they take from donors to private businesses who then sell it to hospitals, and they use the money as they please.
They're very much a national charity and a Christian charity, as much as they'd like to be seen as more universal. And I won't give them a fucking dime. Partly because of that, and partly because they charged my grandfather for coffee in the first world war and he said never to give them anything.
Oxfam is too involved in the root causes of poverty and political activism in poor countries for most Americans; they find it suspiciously lefty.
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Date: 2005-07-20 11:52 pm (UTC)They're very much a national charity and a Christian charity, as much as they'd like to be seen as more universal. And I won't give them a fucking dime. Partly because of that, and partly because they charged my grandfather for coffee in the first world war and he said never to give them anything.
Oxfam is too involved in the root causes of poverty and political activism in poor countries for most Americans; they find it suspiciously lefty.