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Originally Posted by Toronto Girl
The whole point of these awards to celebrities is to continue to draw publicity to the problem and therefore increase donations to the cause. Marketing disguised as philanthropy recognition.
As noble as the thought may be, an award to an anonymous aid worker will not garner one line of ink any where except by their mother in a letter to her distant relatives.
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I understand this point, but it's also quite insulting. We used to recognize thinkers, builders, workers, people who actually did things. There was a world before celebrity culture. And it's sad that it takes a celebrity to draw publicity to a cause....but that's no excuse for exalting vapid, overpaid celebrities. This celebrity culture has gone way too far. It's ridiculous.
And why
shouldn't we recognize some lowly worker? Maybe if we all started realizing how dumb and hypocritical celebrities were, we wouldn't award them, and start recognizing real people who do real things.