General Tan Shwe of Myanmar might received a celebrity-like publicity after Hollywood decided to make a human right campaign featuring him—although the campaign described him as a “living-Hitler”.
The video shows Ellen Page of “Juno” giving a short narration to raise peoples awareness for human right while holding a picture of the general. One of her line in the video says “Hitler is living in Burma”. Sounds like a tough strike for the general?
The video is a part of campaign for human rights, planned to be distributed in the internet through social networking site and YouTube.
Here is the link to the original story.
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True that in today’s world, among the most powerful and influential forces are the media and the internet. Individuals can make a real changes, world scale, in just one-click away. As a “nettizen”, the more people you can reach at one-click, the more influential you are.
The user-generated contents in websites like YouTube, MySpace or other social-networking sites are changing almost every aspect of our life. You name it. Arts, social, politics, commerce, and many more; none of them are unreachable by the internet.
Thanks to the internet, more and more campaign like this would be helped by the nature of today’s networked world. It is good to have this kind of technological savvy, but as most people says, “technology is a double-sided sword”.
I’m talking about the mentioned campaign. Can it be justified to put a label of “living Hitler” to someone like General Tan Shwe? I mean, I’m not defending the general for his act, but I think it is subjectively unfair to put a label like that in a human right campaign.
One of my friend said that the campaign itself is a “character assassination”. She said, “If Tan Shwe is to blame for his act, what about Bush? They (the campaigner) should put Bush in one of their campaign!”
It made me think that in this information superhighway, it is getting harder for us to get an objective, bias-free perspective. It forces us to work harder to filter all those ‘spams’ of information.
If now Hollywood can labeled up a dictator in a far, foreign country, as a living Hitler, what else would they labelled?
i think netizen is with a ‘Z’.. hehehe.. sorry im a bit obsessed with Ms.Muhibat’s perfection ;P
Hehehe..I’m using my own dictionary…
I mean double T.. LOL
gue tau label hitler itu agak berlebihan
tapi kita memang harus tau konteksnya
Junta militer nggak segan-segan membakar satu desa tanpa ada pemberitahuan kalau desa itu nggak nurut kata junta. Anak-anak kecil diambil begitu aja dari pinggir jalan untuk dijadikan tentara kecil. Ibu-ibu bisa setiap saat menjadi korban pelecehan seksual oleh tentara. Pelanggaran ham yang terjadi di Myanmar sudah berada di tingkat yang sangat menyedihkan. Makanya si Juno itu memberi label Than Swe sebagai Hitler baru.
Saya yakin alasan tindakan pemberian label itu sifatnya positif. Tidak ada niat buruk untuk menjatuhkan tokoh-tokoh yang tidak disukai secara sepihak.