Blue jeans for pneumonia?
FinsburyParkCarrots
Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
I didn't want to gatecrash Know1's breast cancer awareness thread, but I'm wondering if you've heard about this. As you can tell by my signature, this is a cause I support. Personally, It's a good way of bringing attention to a cause, even if it's not as hands-on and pragmatic as some people might want.
Felix Salmon disagrees, though: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... pneumonia/ However, to me he just sounds like a whiner looking for a media angle. He stakes a peculiarly spurious and specious claim to political correctness, in his view about the colour blue being offensive to the children who turn that hue, dying of the disease.
What's your view on this? Would seeing lots of people at work wearing blue jeans really prompt you to learn more about and donate to a cause? Or are you already suffering from hedge-fund related media fatigue? Do you agree with some of the people leaving comments on that page, who assert that "Blue jeans for penumonia" is just another ploy for people with money to feel good about themselves through doing something tokenistic for the poor of developing countries?
Does reading about this hedge-fund initiative interest you at all, to do something about the worldwide threat of this disease? Or is it something to be filed away with Live 8 and adopt an orphan schemes: something self-aggrandising types do in the name of philanthropy?
Felix Salmon disagrees, though: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2 ... pneumonia/ However, to me he just sounds like a whiner looking for a media angle. He stakes a peculiarly spurious and specious claim to political correctness, in his view about the colour blue being offensive to the children who turn that hue, dying of the disease.
What's your view on this? Would seeing lots of people at work wearing blue jeans really prompt you to learn more about and donate to a cause? Or are you already suffering from hedge-fund related media fatigue? Do you agree with some of the people leaving comments on that page, who assert that "Blue jeans for penumonia" is just another ploy for people with money to feel good about themselves through doing something tokenistic for the poor of developing countries?
Does reading about this hedge-fund initiative interest you at all, to do something about the worldwide threat of this disease? Or is it something to be filed away with Live 8 and adopt an orphan schemes: something self-aggrandising types do in the name of philanthropy?
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