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Charity Tourists Trapped in Kabul: Soho House and Call Her Daddy Bans
from #265 - Austin Taliban | The Tim Dillon Show · #265
6 min
Tim distinguishes cynical 'charity tourism' by wealthy Westerners in Afghanistan from real activism, joking about Soho House Kabul closing and Call Her Daddy being banned, and argues some charity work is more about the helper's vanity than actual impact.
- Charity in wealthy circles is a social-climbing exercise, not genuine philanthropy—mansion galas where people buy expensive dresses and write checks.
- Real charity means putting yourself in actual danger and risk, which is what's happening now in Afghanistan when things go wrong.
- Afghanistan is no longer a place for white women to go find themselves; they're now actually living in Afghanistan.
- Some charity is cynical—white people wanting to show the world they're different and care, distributing iPads and Call Her Daddy podcasts to Afghan women.
- Call Her Daddy has been banned in Afghanistan and the Soho House Kabul is closed, ending that particular charity mission.
- Some genuinely good people went to Afghanistan to help, but others cynically exploited the situation, and some charities are CIA front groups.
- People who worked in charity there told him the locals didn't want them there and they weren't culturally in sync, making the effort feel vain.
- He didn't go to Afghanistan to teach women to read because you're fighting against the ocean and the ocean always wins.
- There's plenty of charity work needed in America, but helping people in Ohio isn't as glamorous or sexy to brag about to college friends.
- If you really want to be the person saying you're teaching people to read in Kabul, today's the day that just became real and you may have to join the resistance.