01-29-2005, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Manx
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If I had assumed that, I might be incorrect. But since what I did was point out that you mislabeled the people you are criticising, I am not incorrect. You are criticising the gov't for jumping on the tsunami aid bandwagon. The gov't is Republican, not liberal. You also criticize the actions of private citizens, even going so far as to call them out by name, and then you claim to not have any issue with the actions of private citizens. Clearly you are lying to yourself.
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Your lack of comprehension does not make my statement a lie. It also appears that I'm not alone in my thinking:
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Jolie Raps Celebrity Grandstanding for Poor
By Thomas Atkins, Reuters
Actress Angelina Jolie says she likes charity work more than acting.
DAVOS, Switzerland (Jan. 29) - Angelina Jolie, the "Tomb Raider" star voted the sexiest woman alive, said on Saturday that celebrities grandstanding as advocates of the poor can do more harm than good.
"I think you can do damage," Jolie said, a day after fellow actress Sharon Stone raised $1 million in five minutes from business tycoons at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos with a spontaneous plea for generosity.
"Celebrities have a responsibility to know absolutely what they're talking about, and to be in it for the long run," said Jolie, 29, who has spent four years as goodwill ambassador to the U.N.'s refugee agency UNHCR.
She has used her pulling power to draw public attention to humanitarian crises in Chad, Sudan and Sierra Leone, winning praises from United Nations officials, and says she donates one-third of her income to charity.
"Just being an actress doesn't help me sleep well at night. When I do something for other people, then I feel my life has value," she said.
On Friday, "Basic Instinct" star Stone jumped up from the audience during a session on funding the war on poverty and challenged the Davos elite to pledge donations for bed nets to protect African children from malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Celebrities have taken unprecedented prominence at this year's business summit, with film stars Richard Gere, Stone and Jolie teaming up with musicians Bono, Lionel Richie, Peter Gabriel and Youssou N'Dour to plead for aid to the poor.
Jolie, who recently starred as a fighter pilot in "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow," says her role as goodwill ambassador has made her work as a film star relatively dull.
"I can't find anything that interests me enough to go back to work," she said. "I'm simply not excited about anything. I'm not excited about going to a film set."
In October, a poll in Esquire magazine named Jolie the "sexiest woman alive." That month, she toured Sudan's Darfur region, calling the humanitarian crisis there as "unbelievably horrible."
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Originally Posted by Manx
It's interesting that you have now decided that I feel more compassion for tsunami victims than Sudanesse victims. I have not expressed any personal opinion on the tsunami victims, yet you quoted a thread I started which directly deals with the Sudanesse victims. You do not grasp my point in this thread, simply that I explained to you some of the major differences between the two tragedies and how those differences can affect emotional responses in people. You asked why, I gave you a much more valuable answer than your supposition of those damn "liberals".
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And you do not grasp my point, so I'll ask it again:
Why are the Indonesians more worthy of the rest of the world's government assistance than anyone else?
The best answer I can come up with is "the same reason Teddy Kennedy was able to dispatch the U.S. Navy to look for his nephew." |
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