Thanks for sharing, that part updated me a lot away from Ben’s view and towards Hypatia’s view.
An aspect I found particularly interesting was that Anima International seems to do a lot of work in Eastern European countries, which tend to be much more racially homogenous, and I presume have fairly different internal politics around race to the US. And that ACE’s review emphasises concerns, not about their ability to do good work in their countries, but about their ability to participate in international spaces with other organisations.
They work in:
Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Estonia, Norway, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Russia, and France
It seems even less justifiable to me to judge an organisation according to US views around racial justice, when they operate in such a different context.
EDIT: This point applies less than I thought. Looks like Connor Jackson, the person in question, is a director of their UK branch, which I’d consider much closer to the US on this topic.
Thanks for sharing, that part updated me a lot away from Ben’s view and towards Hypatia’s view.
An aspect I found particularly interesting was that Anima International seems to do a lot of work in Eastern European countries, which tend to be much more racially homogenous, and I presume have fairly different internal politics around race to the US. And that ACE’s review emphasises concerns, not about their ability to do good work in their countries, but about their ability to participate in international spaces with other organisations.
They work in:
It seems even less justifiable to me to judge an organisation according to US views around racial justice, when they operate in such a different context.
EDIT: This point applies less than I thought. Looks like Connor Jackson, the person in question, is a director of their UK branch, which I’d consider much closer to the US on this topic.