I actually know the answer to the question, I'm just posing it hypothetically.
I find it just so absolutely disgusting when so much coverage and attention is given to people that make comments that any reasonable person will find absolutely ridiculous.
Examples include, in recent news: Tim Hardaway, the Asian Week fella, and Ann Coulter. Their statements are just so shocking that I don't see how any "reasonable" (there's that word again, take it for what it means) could support them in the least way--yet the presses are stopped to give them an absolutely insane amount of attention. Why why why can't we just ignore them and make them go away?
As long as they're just words and no action is taken by these people, I don't see the need to invalidate what they say or validate what chodes they are.
It's like the trolls we see here and elsewhere, if you stop feeding them with attention, they'll just wither away and die. However when you give them endless press coverage it just moreso validates that they matter in our society, when they should be on the absolutely bottom of the rung when it comes to relevancy.
I understand the whole shock factor here and how "interesting" it is, and it's hard to blame the media for feeding what society yearns for. But on the same token (and here's the idealistic side of me speaking) can't we somehow encourage people for making intelligent, sensible comments, and give them attention? There's also the notion that media attention helps disparage the chodes who say what they do, but there's no such thing as bad press right?
I find it just so absolutely disgusting when so much coverage and attention is given to people that make comments that any reasonable person will find absolutely ridiculous.
Examples include, in recent news: Tim Hardaway, the Asian Week fella, and Ann Coulter. Their statements are just so shocking that I don't see how any "reasonable" (there's that word again, take it for what it means) could support them in the least way--yet the presses are stopped to give them an absolutely insane amount of attention. Why why why can't we just ignore them and make them go away?
As long as they're just words and no action is taken by these people, I don't see the need to invalidate what they say or validate what chodes they are.
It's like the trolls we see here and elsewhere, if you stop feeding them with attention, they'll just wither away and die. However when you give them endless press coverage it just moreso validates that they matter in our society, when they should be on the absolutely bottom of the rung when it comes to relevancy.
I understand the whole shock factor here and how "interesting" it is, and it's hard to blame the media for feeding what society yearns for. But on the same token (and here's the idealistic side of me speaking) can't we somehow encourage people for making intelligent, sensible comments, and give them attention? There's also the notion that media attention helps disparage the chodes who say what they do, but there's no such thing as bad press right?
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