So Adobe Stock (Photos) has no problem selling images staging visual tropes in global health (suffering subject and white saviour tropes) instead of decolonising their imagery and participating in a more equal postcolonial societies. Money is obviously more important to them than a basic human right such as a respectful and sensitive depiction of people.
Why is it that anybody who uses the word "decolonizing" or some variant of it just seems to think doing racism again but from "the oppressed" and then Orwellianly gussying it up in academic pseudo-intellwwhere is the answer to everything? I have seen them unironically suggest race-limited elections as the proper way to do referendums. While dehumanizing people as "colonizers", charging them with the sins of their forefathers, and promoting ethnic cleansing.
Can you even actually define what the actual fuck you would change in the imagery in this context of soliciting donations from largely white people?
Goddamn right it is about money! Money marshalls the resources which can help people. This is kindergarten level comprehension about what charity is and why they want money.
Don't talk to about human rights when you expand them so frivolously, and yet show a clear disregard for the effect on outcome of actual people in favor of scoring ideological correctness points. Only somebody incredibly privileged would have such skewed priorities.
