Michelle Obama’s contribution to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign came weeks after a Nigerian activist launched the hashtag that helped interest journalists in the terrorist kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls. The teenybopper administration might believe in “the promise of hashtag,” but the first lady’s frowny-faced photo has been widely criticized as late-to-the-table, impotent slacktivist feelgoodery.
Here’s the response from Jack of Ranger Up that Blackfive says “sums up my feelings about pouty Twits believing that social media works better than action.”
http://twitter.com/#!/N_J_Anderson/status/464841904702881793 http://twitter.com/#!/matt_phinney/status/464890008961556481Related:
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‘Emptiest of empty gestures’: FLOTUS hopes terrorists will live by the promise of hashtag [pic]
