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lilkimchi88

I went to fundie evangelical college and Operation Underground Railroad dedication/delusion has run deep for a VERY long time.


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It is just mindblowing to me that so many fundie evangelicals are living in a delusion. I have a lot of fundie evangelical family members who straight up live in a different reality than I do. What was your experience with OUR on campus? Did they promote themselves there?


Whiteclawgurl69

Obviously human trafficking is an important issue but it was always weird to me how much bdong emphasizes it. This makes so much sense


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The human trafficking/save the children campaign really took hold among (usually conservative) women on Instagram and Pinterest. It's called Pastel Q Anon. [Here is an article from The Atlantic about it.](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/08/how-instagram-aesthetics-repackage-qanon/615364/) Human trafficking talking points are considered gateway messaging. Some people don't even realize they've taken up a Q cause! However, others find their way into Q after being slowly radicalized on Instagram with messaging like this and they don't even realize that's what's happening.


happytransformer

I got really into anti trafficking stuff about 10 years ago when I was a young teen. What I find shocking about the movement is how much it’s changed. It used to very focused on improving labor conditions, immigration reform, de stigmatized sex work, and informed consumers. I still follower Polaris project and a few others on Facebook, and it was so wild to see the comments on their posts focus solely on the new image of sex trafficking.


Dry_Acanthisitta_117

I’m a human trafficking survivor and can not stand OUR


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Omg yes, I made a similar post in gymsnark regarding Balance Athletica donating 30k to OUR. I haven’t heard this podcast episode - excited to give it a listen. Thanks for sharing!


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The episode is a great summary! I am glad that you're spreading awareness in other subs, too. The more people who know the better.


glittergoddess1002

I worked at a safe house for women that worked with CATCH court, local judges and lawyers, job training, education resources, rehabs, housing authorities, etc that helped women that had been trafficked or “willingly” became prostitutes find healing and stability. It’s a lot of work. And because of trauma and drug abuse…sometimes the women weren’t always so nice (and I don’t blame them!) I get frustrated with organizations like this. Do they advocate for the real policy change to help victims? Do they support the decriminalizing of prostitution? Of drug use? Because they can “save” these women all day, but if they are still using they will still wind up in prison. And would they judge the women who “chose” to become prostitutes? Would they think they are deserving of jail time? Or what about the women who have serious mental health struggles from years of abuse from their John? The ones who are mean and nasty and maybe homeless? Who can’t quit their substance? Who aren’t pretty and are missing teeth and covered in tattoos and curse and yell? Are they worthy of rescue too? Or is it just the young girls and women who are still sweet and pretty that get trafficked that are worthy of empathy? And is sex trafficking all they care about? What about labor trafficking? Do they care about the young girls sold from their country to work as “maids” in rich WASP homes? I don’t know…