Discussion for article #222631
"Power is the ability to achieve intended effects. This is not intended to have any effect on the real world," he continued.
I think that every time I hear you speak, George.
GWâ pissant among pissants.
Who are mortally afraid of strong, educated, articulate womenâŚ
âBarbarians in the wildâ sort of sums up how he sees the girls, too. Itâs like he canât even hide his disdain for them. If there were two hundred missing white girls being held by terrorists, how would Fox react?
George Will would certainly know about masturbatory exercises in self-esteem.
I donât see how the knee-jerk conservative bashing of this hashtag plays out in their favor. Sure, theyâre using this mockery to play to the angry baseâbut donât Will and the conservative bloggers realize how MoveOn, DCCC, and WH will use this kind of monstrously callous statement against GOP?
I just donât get how they strategize this.
Although George Will doesnât frame his argument in very compassionate terms, peer-reviewed empirical/social science research suggests that he might actually be right. Social movement scholars and practitioners have a long way to go before we can effectively translate social media posts to meaningful support of causes.
See, for example, The Structure of Online Activism by Lewis, Gray, and Meierhenrich in Sociological Science (2014) and The Nature of Slacktivism: How the Social Observability of an Initial Act of Token Support Affects Subsequent Prosocial Action by Kristofferson, White, and Peloza in the Journal of Consumer Research (2014).
Please shut up, you constipated bag of wind. Your day (if it ever came) is long gone.
Agreed. Hashtag activism is (at least often) an âexercise in self-esteemâ, but further to my comment above: how does Will think this kind of callousness possibly plays in GOPâs favor? And how monstrous are these a-holes going to look if the attempt to rescue these girls is successful? I picture one or more of the young women, with NGO representatives, on MSNBC or Jon Stewartâor Maharâand Will et al having to face them.
Itâs just stupid politically. I donât get it.
I canât stand his arguments and saying âbarbarians in the wildâ is beyond the pale. I donât think the twitter campaign is an exercise in self esteem. That said, I donât think his general hypothesis is wrong. The twitter campaign will raise awareness, but whatâs that going to do for these poor girls?
This guy went from a respected "This Week "participant to a fox news clown in just a matter of weeks.
Naw heâs been this way as long as I can remember. Sometimes he has good points and good rhetorical arguments, but generally he argues to come to a predisposed conservative conclusion.
The strategy is to pander to the three million drooling idiots that tune into Fox News .
Fox News(?) : Why are they doing #BringBackOurGirls instead of something âNOT to make you feel better about themselvesâ like 50+ ârepeal and replaceâ Obamacare votes â I mean (h)ello #BENGHAZIIIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiiiiii.
And F*CK U Juan Williams â what was there to chuckle about?
It sounds accurate to me. If you think these terrorists who murder men, women and children are going to pay the least attention to this, you are a bigger fool than I think you are.
Look, and George Will knows this; The first lady is drawing attention to a dire situation that the more the world pays attention, the more pressure will be applied, and the more likely we can find a way to resolve this.
George Will has turned himself into nothing more than one more conservative babbler, and I recall when he was better than that.
Mark Steyn put it all in perspective with his hashtag of #BringBackOurBalls.
What a jealous old crone George Will has become. His rancid jealousy for Michelle Obama is only superseded by his ignorance of the medium. Time for this journalistic sway-back to be put to pasture.
Much like any shit that spews from Willâs mouth or pen has any effect on the âreal world.â As if thereâs any other world but.
By GodâŚGeorge Will has no human compassion at all. Iâm on the verge of using language I almost never use in a public forum. Well screw it:
FUCK YOU, MR WILL AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON.
I think the point is for the world to have awareness and want to find ways to stop this or have action taken from a third partyâŚnot that these assholes are going to stop kidnapping these girls.