October 22, 2017
'Me Too': Thirty Years Too Late
By Brian C. Joondeph
We now live in a hashtag world. Hashtags are used not simply to identify social media messages regarding a particular topic, but also as a means of virtue-signaling, of calling attention to the latest social justice cause. Many of these causes legitimate, but others are contrived. Hashtags have replaced the multicolored ribbons celebrating the latest cause or issue.
Michelle Obama participated a hashtag movement, #BringBackOurGirls, to bring attention to Boko Haram kidnapping several hundred girls in Nigeria. A few girls escaped, but most remain missing. It was a well intentioned but ultimately ineffective hashtag campaign.
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