David Lloyd and his wife, Natalie, the daughter of Missouri state Rep. Ben Baker, and a third member of their missionary group were fatally shot in the attack.
I don’t agree with their theological views, and I don’t love that indoctrination is so often tied to humanitarian efforts.
But these are people who were trying to help out children in the middle of the second worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now, and the one that very very few people are giving much attention to as the other dominates news cycles and most of the Western world has just written off Africa as a whole (oops). (Also, I think this may be the only story about Hati on Lemmy in recent history, in fact).
They didn’t ‘deserve’ getting brutally murdered for sticking around and not abandoning the children’s schools and homes they spent the past decades cultivating.
They did a lot more to help people than I ever have, even if a key factor in their doing so was what I might consider delusional thinking.
And so even if I’m not a fan of some aspects of their lives, I respect what they did do, and think it’s a bit fucked up to be making light of their deaths.
A lot of victim blaming in this thread.
I don’t agree with their theological views, and I don’t love that indoctrination is so often tied to humanitarian efforts.
But these are people who were trying to help out children in the middle of the second worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now, and the one that very very few people are giving much attention to as the other dominates news cycles and
most of the Western world has just written off Africa as a whole(oops). (Also, I think this may be the only story about Hati on Lemmy in recent history, in fact).They didn’t ‘deserve’ getting brutally murdered for sticking around and not abandoning the children’s schools and homes they spent the past decades cultivating.
They did a lot more to help people than I ever have, even if a key factor in their doing so was what I might consider delusional thinking.
And so even if I’m not a fan of some aspects of their lives, I respect what they did do, and think it’s a bit fucked up to be making light of their deaths.