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#McKinsey's involvement with ICE is the logical outgrowth of what they've been doing all over the world, extending an instrumentalist, bottom-line logic to problems of governance, migration, health, and everything in-between. 1/7 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/mckinsey-ICE-immigration.html …

In many parts of the world, #McKinsey uses its "expertise" to take over the role of government. But McKinsey has never been democratically elected. It represents a global plutocracy, a rule of experts in the name of the wealthy (on this, see @AnandWrites & @sarahkendzior). 2/7

In India, #McKinsey consultants seemed to run the Gates Foundation's HIV program. Frequently, consultants had little knowledge of India, nor were many of them experts on HIV. One asked me why Indians wasted so much money on "monkey temples." So what are they experts of? 3/5

From what I can tell, the McKinsey approach is based on the idea that methods are infinitely portable. They *know* how to manage, so it doesn't matter what specifically they are managing. Who cares about specifics anyway? 4/7

In India, this meant that they couldn't understand why HIV treatment was just as important as prevention ("prevention is more cost-effective," I was told). Never mind that orgs like @PIH have been showing for decades that treatment is necessary to prevention 5/7