Hehe, perhaps so. Perhaps it is not my business to express my opinion on the behaviour of the British "authorities". Now, while I absolutely do believe that "the media" should occasionally manufacture outrage, against corrupt politicians for example, (this is needed to keep the powers that be in check), I think this article was quite absurd in that it wouldn't have any effect. It was just a small news story about something that happened, and also a call for people to support @azizbd. There was no realistic scenario where the outrage would be so huge that the British authorities would have to cave to the pressure and let mr. Aziz in! But if it would have happened, it would have been good. And, I'm sure he can later make a new application and get his visa. Don't know that much about the situation.
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So is this article click bait? @pavezi
Well, it's a true story and a provocative, exaggerated headline. Yeah, I'd call it that, it's an exaggerated provocative headline... I mean, real click bait would be like: "Supermodel at the beach - SEE THE PHOTOS!" or "10 cutest unknown animals" or something like that :D
Click bait
Defined
QED
Look, all headlines are supposed to draw attention, right? What I was doing is trying to help out a charity worker who had been denied a visa by these Brits! Why? Because he didn't have any land or property? That's just outright discrimination due to poverty. We're heading to a dangerous new apartheid world where good people like mr. azizbd aren't allowed to travel to the United Kingdom. It was an outrage, the headline was correct, of course it's sad that I could not attract even more attention to this problem with even more striking headline. Call it clickbait, call it whatever you want, I don't believe I did anything wrong.
No.
That's outright entitlement & manufactured outrage, sir.
That's the core issue, @pavezi
Look, there's no question of entitlement here. Mr. azizbd didn't ask me to write this article, he seems to be just a humble charity worker from Bangladesh with no land or property who wanted to visit the UK, but was denied a visa. So you know he isn't responsible for anything I do. So you can't blame him for "entitlement". And how could you blame me? I have a right to give my opinion about something I see happening. I have a right to comment events, like this guy being denied a visa. I think it was wrong, the UK should have been honored to have this guy visit them. Of course based only on what I know about the situation. So I wanted to bring up this important injustice, you know, people take travelling and visas for granted in our developed countries, but when someone from a country like Bangladesh tries to travel, he runs in to problems like this! It's a genuine problem and would require genuine outrage. Obviously this one post on steem isn't going to do anything about it, but please, articulate what was so morally wrong or reprehensible in my article? I mean the headline describes the happening pretty well. Something scandalous happened, a charity school teacher from Bangladesh was denied a visa because he wasn't considered a "proper visitor". Obviously this was way more scandalous than the whole Trump-Russia election-hacking hoax :D But hey, I get your point, we'll just agree to disagree. I mean at least I didn't do anything illegal, right? I just tried to help a guy out.
Click bait. It is, sir.
So, you've used @azizbd & his noble causes for click-bait. @pavezi
And help yourself too, at his expense?
Or are you going to transfer your earnings from the post to @azizbd or his causes?