{"id":15049,"date":"2009-06-18T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T21:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15049"},"modified":"2009-06-18T15:21:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T21:21:20","slug":"is-it-too-easy-being-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/18\/is-it-too-easy-being-green.html","title":{"rendered":"Is it too easy being Green?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve noted a lot of folks changing their Twitter icons to green in solidarity with Iranians protesting the recent (pretty clearly stolen) election<\/a>. There’s even a widget to do it automatically for you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, “Solidarity!” I mean, that’s pretty cool.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, what the heck, wearing green on your icon? That’s a pretty lame (and safe) thing to do.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, what else is <\/em>there to do? I agree with speaking out, but there’s not a lot of direct action to be taken (at least not by the US … we blew our moral high ground on Iran way too many times in the past to make our officially Doing Something any better than hypocrisy, let alone whether it would simply discredit the opposition.<\/p>\n

Plus, of course, it’s not like that opposition is actually all puppies and unicorns and rainbows. Mousavi is arguably better than Ahmadinejad, but, heck, not many folks aren’t.<\/p>\n

So … if I turn my icon green, am I making a valuable statement and offering solidarity to the people of Iran against this attack on their democratic wishes? Or am I joining the proud tradition of folks making a safe, self-congratulatory, and useless gesture that doesn’t actually mean a whole heck of a lot (and isn’t likely to be seen by any Iranians anyway)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve noted a lot of folks changing their Twitter icons to green in solidarity with Iranians protesting the recent (pretty clearly stolen) election. There’s even a widget to do it automatically for you. On the one hand, “Solidarity!” I mean, that’s pretty cool. On the other hand, what the heck, wearing green on your icon? … Continue reading “Is it too easy being Green?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131878,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/25\/its-party-time-in-america.html","url_meta":{"origin":15049,"position":0},"title":"It's Party Time in America!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Oct-16 8:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So this year we have 22 Presidential candidates on our Colorado ballot ...We have the old stand-by's that everyone talks about:DemocraticRepublicanLibertarianGreenBut we also have some other groups -- like these all-Americans:American ConstitutionAmerican DeltaAmerica's PartyVeterans of AmericaIndependent AmericanAmerican SolidarityAnd non-\"American\":Approval VotingProhibitionNon-Violent Resistance \/ PacifistIndependent PeopleNutritionAnd 3 sets of \"Unaffiliated\" candidates:UnaffiliatedUnaffiliatedUnaffiliatedNot to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ballots-extra-stamps5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ballots-extra-stamps5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ballots-extra-stamps5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":132606,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/21\/deflecting-diverting-distracting.html","url_meta":{"origin":15049,"position":1},"title":"Deflecting, Diverting, Distracting","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 21-Jan-17 1:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's difficult to tell the degree to which the tactics described here are consciously applied by Trump and\/or his team, or simply have the effect described. 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