It has come to my attention that the United Kingdom has recently denied a visa to Bangladeshian social entrepreneur and charity worker Mohammed Abdul Aziz.
When I asked mr. Aziz why his visa application was rejected, he answered:
"because of financial ties in Bangladesh and family ties. I am not married, and I have no land or property. I was not genuine visitor (according to them)"
This is an outrage. Please support mr. Aziz here on Steemit, by following him and upvoting his stuff @azizbd
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Manufactured Outrage & Entitlement
As you say, @pavezi, Bangladeshi social entrepreneur & charity worker Mohammed Abdul Aziz, is well qualified. However,
Your efforts would be better spent at the UK Embassy in Dhaka or the Commonwealth office in London rather than manufacturing outrage on Steemit, sir.
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.
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
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