Cenk Uygur
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'Hashtag Activism' Helps Nobody, Insist Out-Of-Touch Old Fogies
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May 13, 2014
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4:41Now Playing"'A panel of Fox News contributors mocked the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag on Sunday, bashing the Twitter phrase for being a useless "exercise in self-esteem."
The hashtag #BringBackOurGirls has gone viral worldwide sparking global awareness of the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria by Boko Haram, an Islamist extremist group. Celebrities, politicians and world leaders have united behind the cause in what is being called "hashtag activism" to bring the girls back to safety.
But Fox News contributors got a laugh on "Fox News Sunday" in a conversation that began with Chris Wallace wondering if the hashtag could actually "make progress" or was rather simply a tool to make people "feel better about themselves.""* Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (TYT University) and Bree Essrig (Pop Trigger) break it down.
*Read more here from Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:
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