Fuck Komen, but awareness does matter. When you aren’t close to a cure, working towards the cure is important, but prevention and early detection are the most effective tools to fight cancer, and those require awareness.
I had one of those groups come though my town this year. Wasn’t Kommen, but a different one. They were stopped in parking lot at a grocery store. I went up to chit-chat with them a little. One of them said they were doing a march to the capitol to raise awareness of child abuse.
Anyway, I got a good look at their vehicles and they had two giant buses with custom wraps. They also had two brand new identical BMW’s with custom wraps. I was just thinking to myself, that’s a lot of money. Money that could have been used to help victims instead of a dozen or so people’s jaunt. I found the whole thing super sus.
Waaaaaay too many people got brainwashed during the Susan G Kommen walks and now think “raising awareness” matters more than actually helping…
The vast majority of the time it’s a grift
Fuck Komen, but awareness does matter. When you aren’t close to a cure, working towards the cure is important, but prevention and early detection are the most effective tools to fight cancer, and those require awareness.
I had one of those groups come though my town this year. Wasn’t Kommen, but a different one. They were stopped in parking lot at a grocery store. I went up to chit-chat with them a little. One of them said they were doing a march to the capitol to raise awareness of child abuse.
Anyway, I got a good look at their vehicles and they had two giant buses with custom wraps. They also had two brand new identical BMW’s with custom wraps. I was just thinking to myself, that’s a lot of money. Money that could have been used to help victims instead of a dozen or so people’s jaunt. I found the whole thing super sus.
Can you elaborate? Was there some sort of scandal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G._Komen#Controversy_and_criticism