Who can tell me who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year? Off the top of their heads? Without having found out because of the Obama thing? Does anyone know anything about what the prize entails, or how the committee who awards it researches and makes their decisions? Can you think of someone you know of that you think really, honestly deserves it this year?
It's making me really angry that we're all commenting on whether or not Barack Obama "deserves" the Nobel Peace Prize, based on our pop politics and shallow understanding of how it works. Hell, I don't know a thing about the system, but I do know that Obama has proven that he wants to work hard to try to achieve peace. He's achieved a lot just by being a symbol of progress and change, let alone his actual work to unify people. He's probably made some mistakes, but I'm going out on a limb and guessing that pretty much everyone who's won the Nobel Peace Prize has. It seems to me that the backlash against him is because he's popular, and we don't seem to think that people who are popular and well-known and well-liked should win this supposedly prestigious award. It's meant to be people we've never heard of who are working to do good in the world without any of us knowing about it. Broaden your horizons, people. Open your minds. If you go out and look up how the system works, what it entails, and the work of every person who's ever won the Nobel Peace Prize, then you can have a say in whether or not you think he deserves it. If you're basing your opinion on the fact that he's popular and the Nobel Peace Prize is not, just give it a rest.
Green Queen
It's making me really angry that we're all commenting on whether or not Barack Obama "deserves" the Nobel Peace Prize, based on our pop politics and shallow understanding of how it works. Hell, I don't know a thing about the system, but I do know that Obama has proven that he wants to work hard to try to achieve peace. He's achieved a lot just by being a symbol of progress and change, let alone his actual work to unify people. He's probably made some mistakes, but I'm going out on a limb and guessing that pretty much everyone who's won the Nobel Peace Prize has. It seems to me that the backlash against him is because he's popular, and we don't seem to think that people who are popular and well-known and well-liked should win this supposedly prestigious award. It's meant to be people we've never heard of who are working to do good in the world without any of us knowing about it. Broaden your horizons, people. Open your minds. If you go out and look up how the system works, what it entails, and the work of every person who's ever won the Nobel Peace Prize, then you can have a say in whether or not you think he deserves it. If you're basing your opinion on the fact that he's popular and the Nobel Peace Prize is not, just give it a rest.
Green Queen
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