No, that isn't snark. I got the link from the change.org newsletter among other stories.
It appears that Diners Club and Vietnam Brides International have teamed up and come up with an offer you can't refuse.
Buying things with a credit card is easy. You just swipe the card, take home the vacuum or flat screen or Fendi bag and pay it off slowly. Buying a Vietnamese wife, however, is a lot harder. You have to pay all that money up front. Well, not anymore says Diners Club credit company! They're offering a special deal: buy your very own Vietnamese woman for only $167 per month, interest free. Diners Club International is financing exploitation
Am I crazy or does this seem like a Fellini dream sequence?
Mail order brides are legal in most of the world, but they are extremely vulnerable to human trafficking, domestic violence, abuse, rape, and exploitation. While creating a payment plan to purchase a human being is an ethical outrage, it also reduces the economic barrier to buying a bride. Removing that barrier allows traffickers to acquire women using less capital than they needed before. It opens the door to even more criminals to buy and exploit these women.
Diners Club does not plan to take back the wives of defaulters. Really.
Are there any Kossacks out there with Diners Club cards? Please let them know what you think of this development. It wouldn't hurt if the rest of us did the same.
Here is a link to the whole article.
Sorry for the short diary, but I needed to pass this on.