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Why do you think Amy Coney Barrett adopted Haitian children if there was no fixation on race? There is obviously a virtue signaling element to that kind of decision, which is tied to the racial dynamics at play. She is leaning into those dynamics rather than rejecting them.
You can have virtue signaling without race.
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Catholicism.
ACB is a wealthy catholic woman and Haiti is a majority catholic country with a surplus of catholic orphans in catholic orphanages in [current year] where US child services tend to frown upon faith-based adoption in general and that of Trad-Caths in particular.
While the Trad-Caths(to which ACB is adjacent, although not actually technically one- Thomas and Scalia both were/are AFAIK) are sometimes a trial balloon for liberal democrat "let's try to crack down on conservative Christians for not being progressives" policies, there aren't actually any Trad-Cath adoption agencies. The three or so adoptions a year coming from Trad-Cath mothers(as it turns out making large families a status symbol and not allowing unmarried women unsupervised time with the opposite sex does a number here) find a recipient family without going through an agency through a whisper network.
Agreed, however, that the religious Catholicism is the reason for adopting Haitian children; having a large to very large family is a necessity for a woman in her social milieu and orphans from Haiti are easy to get if you don't care about race.
This is actually not true though, the entire process was extremely expensive, difficult, and shady to say the least. It was absolutely not the path of least resistance for adopting children, they really wanted Haitian children.
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Only because any agency that refused to toe the liberal line on abortion and sexual orientation got its' ass shut down 20 years ago. The purge of church-run orphanages and adoption agencies, ostensibly for the children's protection, was a whole thing during the late 90s and early 2000s. CCB was the last holdout, and they closed their doors in 2006.
Sure, but also IRL Trad-Caths don't need any adoption agencies, although I suppose underclass hispanics would line up to use theirs if available; when you have high ingroup cohesion and practically no fornication the handful of children a year that need to be adopted out can just be handled by a whisper network and you use a secular agency after the deal's already been made if applicable law requires it.
Ok that makes more sense, I think I misread/misinterpreted your previous comment as suggesting that Catholics weren't big on adoption to which my knee-jerk reaction was basically "Say Whut?"
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Also, while this doesn't apply to someone as wealthy as ACB, for normal people who want to adopt there are far more non-white babies available than white
That, and it's possible to inspect the merchandise before purchase rather than simply ordering and accepting it sight-unseen.
For a good that costs that much, even more so because these items are sold as-is with no warranty or return policy, I'm not surprised that even people wealthy enough to afford this kind of item are more interested in purchasing from a store that doesn't take multiple days to get to.
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I agree, though I don’t think it’s mostly about virtue signaling to the left. It also seems (admittedly I have no firsthand experience) that a lot of those southern megachurches have a big fixation on fundraising for Africa, African famines and so on, and about Haiti. They have church groups that travel to these places, they spend a lot of money on political activity in these places. The left is often complaining about alleged American Christian involvement in eg. Uganda’s laws on homosexuality. Traditional Catholics also seem to hold Haiti as especially important (I suppose unsurprising given it’s a Catholic country), ACB’s adoption decision clearly wasn’t random.
No we don't. Traditional Catholics are regularly in mainland Latin America(Columbia, Peru, Mexico, etc) doing stuff but rarely discuss Haiti.
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It's bang for your buck. Africa is a big place and you'll see the focus is on "Christian" sub-Saharan Africa because the countries are pretty open to interventions. Same with Papua New Guinea as apposed to Western New Guinea. Also map interventions that were former British Colonies because then you need less language skills. Haiti does speak French but it's also rather close.
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