TGJ201 Post Comments - Unit 6

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My comment on Timmy's post
In all honesty, with all you had said about the issue on Fake News I can relate with you easily. I find it very acceptable on how we both agree that we always have to be careful when we are searching through the media for news. Like if one is not careful, they can end up making an entire reflection article about it and realize after a while that it was a fake. I like how we both suggest to just read beyond the title of a news story, but you also proved on how it is so much faster than the other suggestions on searching online news. "News is just as big as the Internet" and I totally find that true.

http://orsen-a.blogspot.com/2018/11/my-culture-is-not-costume.html

My comment on Orsen's post


I appreciate that you have claimed how you have stated your realization about the costumes of halloween that are capable of harming the identity of multiple cultures. It must feel quite embarrassing as in the past, what you knew about halloween was just all of joy and laughs with your friends as you dress up, but now after seeing this video , it makes you question deeply if any of the costumes you had worn before had offended somebody else. I liked how you said in this post that for the people who have created these cultural costumes and had offended someone badly, you show that it isn't too late for that individual to make up for their mistakes. Within all this is respect, as you say is a great progress in our society.

http://reneeyes.blogspot.com/2019/05/a-heated-debate-notre-dame.html

My Comment on Renee's post
As I am someone who had been to the Notre Dame and has a concern for the issues in our societies, your post has really made me feel again the sadness I feel for these two things. When I first went to Paris and into the Notre Dame before its tragedy, I felt so amazed and satisfied with the building's design itself and I just loved the art. With this feeling I would do the same to donate if it had been ruined because I know how ancient the Church is. I have to say that I really agree with you about when you had mentioned that the fact that with the huge amount of money, governments had been donating, it was enough to help the poor people and other issues noted in society. In social media i've seen a post that relates similar to the mention of your donation situation. When i had seen it I was enraged with it and had thought it cruel for governments to actually value a building more than a human life.

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My comment on Ryan's post

I liked how you mentioned that when you had first saw the video which it was supposed to mock the youth for the lack of voting, you immediately became curious about multiple things at once. Like if the seniors were really voting more than young people, or what we young people had done to offend the adults relating to politicians and elections.I should thank you because I really didn't know that the seniors had more number of votes then on how we contribute, but yet again we are still too young for that. And I agree that on some parts of voting, especially at the this age, could be harmful in a way.

http://robloxwii.blogspot.com/2018/11/from-advchaser-on-twitter-for-nikes.html

I have always seen that this movement made by Colin Kaepernick and Nike together, was the right thing to do considering that there is completely nothing wrong with trying to stop an injustice. You mention that you didn't care at all from the damage of the #Justburnit protest as there was literally no need for that and it was more of an intended burning hazard. I agree with that and that all of this was an over exaggeration of people disbanding their loyalty with Nike, and it's so sad to see how this clearly proves that nowadays, people could just get absolutely outraged over the tiniest things in this world.

Elon Musk's Tesla Gigafactory - Climate Change Denial

We all know that climate change is a very major issue in our time right now. You know that it is caused by the basics of too much of something, like emissions of green house gases or carbon, which we occur it by our daily footprints. And by daily I mean that every day in our lives, including literally everyone in our home land, we just drive in our fancy or not cars to work, school, or just anywhere we want to go. Remember that cars are the one of the main sources of our global warming problem which adds onto our climate change problem.

Every year, as a single average car and its single exhaust which emits the carbon, it is possible for a motor machine to release approximately 6 tons of carbon. From a perspective, that is of course way too much and this should wake up people to find a solution for this quick. And the solution is quite simple, as it is so easy to change into electronic vehicles, but in these days people are still sticking with the trending. Unfortunately these trends often end up in smoke. This is why we should start encouraging the use of electronic cars, saying how it will help us and the Earth for good.

You could be inspired by Elon Musk, as he is someone who is willing to clean up our environment for the better, and to make the air from polluted to fresh as it was before. For reminders, Elon Musk is the owner of a company that goes by 'Tesla' and he is one of the founding members as it was founded in 2003. This automotive company is always intending to use energy or any other of the cleanest energy sources out there in the world, to create their vehicles which also run on that same energy. The Tesla vehicles started to get more popular around 2015/2017 and it may proceed starting from the present. But with having to build four door family cars to factoring an electronic supercar, it wasn't enough to satisfy Elon.

Around the summer season of 2016, Elon opened the Tesla Gigafactory. This is a factory that runs entirely on clean energy as it has a huge area of panels on the roof to receive our Sun's solar. Elon Musk says that the factory is just a "Giant machine that builds and machine". This factory can benefit us in many ways as it can create a very large production of storage goods. Clean energy based goods such as Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, solar panels, and of course their electronic vehicles which we may know and appreciate well for transportation. For your information, this building is big enough to store nearly 100 tourism aircrafts.

Elon already has a dozen of these factories produced over America. The truth is, he dreams to create a hundred more of the Gigafactories globally around the world. He wants to produce these machines as fast as he can because with what he is doing right now is really helping us. And he claims that when this is all completed, it will most likely save our planet.

Climate Change is such a huge concern, so huge that many are saying and partially confirming that we humans have until 2030 to change and reduce our ways of daily usage. In my opinion, this scares me a lot and I mean too much. To me the issue of climate change and global warming had always been on my attention because I know the devastating outcome and that is that it will scorch our Earth into utter chaos. Lately I have been thinking that this change is really happening as I realize that the weather has been quite aggressive lately. As last winter, we had one heck of a snowstorm, and recently from spring, we had very hard rains. It may be just me but the winds feel stronger than ever.

From global warming, maybe we'll have a very hot summer in this year of 2019.

In my suggestion, support the denial of climate change. We could do it by supporting projects such as Elon Musk's Gigafactories. But I know positively that we will take a course of action, because it is very obvious that we really want to have a great future. Not just for our generation right now, but for the upcoming generation.

"Fake News" A Very Huge Burden

Anywhere in the world, people can tell stories that can involve with global events, a daily crime or situation, and also involving with celebrities. But you must always keep in mind of how convenient it is for people to create such a mischief of a story. Fake news to do a lot of things that is just literally uncool to many. It can shock people with heavy emotions that can be created by saying something bad has happened to a very popular person that they may like. Or when an individual finds out that the information that they were getting from online media was a total lie, they feel like a complete fool for really believing it.

You can relate fake news to the 2016 U.S. Elections, as there were a lot that you could find under the false category. For example there was a news article about Michelle Obama deleting Hillary Clinton's Twitter account which really hadn't happened. The article or mostly the myth about Facebook helping Trump to win with an exploit within the votes. Or another story that may or may not be fake is the fact that Hillary Clinton was selling weapons to the terrorist organization, known as ISIS. Most believe that this was just fake news.

I often do not look deeply into a lot of the stuff that I see on social media. But if I was getting news from the media, I would always suggest to read beyond or if i can, i'll just read the entire article. I suggest this because there are times when I actually read beyond a news story and then when there is information that just doesn't really add up to the truth, or it just feels odd to really believe,  I search through the internet to see if there is a conformation whether that the story is either true or false.

This is one example I found out as a fake news.
In 2016 during the month of August, I was shown that Jaden Smith had committed suicide, which had made me feel very shocked and also in grief as I always find it very fond of the chemistry between him and his father, Will Smith.

I was then relieved as when I was desperate to knowing what had really happened and why Jaden would really do this to himself, I searched very deeply into this story. I then determine that it was fake as I had found out that the entire thing was just a big fat hoax. I find this entire thing insulting to say such a thing about a young man.

Keep in mind that News can be exactly like History, as its stories are mostly determined by a single being, who has the ability to simply tell a fake story for everyone to believe.
 


 

"My Culture is NOT A COSTUME" An offence within cultural costumes

When it comes things like Halloween, we always intend to have fun with friends, make some laughs or scares, but the most important part of it all is coming up with your own crazy idea of a costume. Costumes always have a variety of different identities, either if it is a cosplay of a screen character you like, a scary one from a basic ghost to a terrifying Jason Voorhees, or just anything!

While all of this is fun to do, costumes can sometimes be of an offence to some people. Badly offended. We may not realize this at some times but when it comes to this issue, it mostly involves with costumes that refer to a specific culture.

During the late year of 2017, the magazine group that goes by the title 'Teen Vogue', uploaded a video that showcases a few young women, each of a different culture, who are offended highly because of the costumes that resembled their own culture. They are offended because they see these costumes as a sign of mockery. They talk about how cheap it was by design and could tell the cheap materials that were used to resemble it. Everyone could tell that these costumes are designed stereotypically. Each women commented differently on their thoughts of their co-opt costumes. For example, there was a costume which resembled a basic stereotype Chinese red dress, and Chinese American Emily Fong claims that just because she's of Chinese descendant, doesn't mean she wore that for her whole life. Or another example with an Indigenous First Nation, Valerie Reynoso, sees that the costume was very inaccurate and it offended her as it resembled a genre of a savage or wild people.

When I first viewed this video, it really has made me come to a realization that a few costumes in the world can really do some damage on culture and to individuals. As I saw how unhappy these women  were as how offended they are, it also makes feel bad as they look very depressed that their entire existence is just a joke viewed by some parts of society. It makes me shocked because from all my past experience of dressing up for halloween and getting out there with friends was a fun time of my life one time. But nowadays, after seeing this it makes me more cautious with the costumes I wear or see and it also makes me sad, along with knowing that this video is not from long ago, so it makes this issue pretty fresh. In my experience I don't have much to say about inappropriate costumes as I had rarely seen one in a big while.

As this issue is a big offence to the cultural communities, we can stop it by simply reminding people to be very careful as they can with what they have for a thought of a costume. Remind them that there a limits of wear. But lets not discourage them way too much, or we're just taking their fun away of brainstorming for a costume.   

"Knock the Vote" video response

As I watched the video "Dear young people, Don't vote" by an organization who call themselves "Knock the Vote" I will say that I responded with like maybe a couple of feelings that got to me when I watched this for the first time. After watching this video with my eyes both wide open from surprise I either felt surprised for what the people in the video had to say or I felt quite offended from it but I think it was meant to happen to young viewers.
What I thought about this video is that it showed to me what I do not usually see from seniors as they show that they just make fun of young people for not doing something very important for society.

What this video says about the people who go out and vote is that they want everyone to be involved with these elections but that is a problem for them because many and many of the youth are not getting themselves to be part of this situation.  This makes the people who vote get upset with them and start to mock them for it. They mock them by saying that they are a bunch of individuals who whine for their own problems, and say that know they won't vote and it sounds like they are betting on those odds. Besides, the seniors get to vote for them and it will count.

This video's objective was to mainly show a message to the young with this mockery that was meant to encourage them to vote in elections. But to be honest at first I really do not know how this this video would encourage the youth as i thought it would discourage them more. Then I figured that it wasn't the case. This video encourages the youth by making them highly feel effected after being known that they are being made fun of from the elderly and so they would not just let this slide by. So now it would make them stand up for themselves to prove that they could make themselves become involved with voting for elective candidates.

Response to Colin Kaepernick "JUST DO IT' Nike Ad

What I think about this Nike Ad that Colin Kaepernick protest is involved with is that to me it is very motivational and like some people I am confused why people are so angry against Colin's protest or this most recent Nike Advertisement since I see nothing wrong with it. The responses that this Nike Ad is getting is a mess since there are people are saying that they are against to what Nike is doing and say that Colin Kaepernick isn't a hero and sacrificed nothing. They also post pictures in social media of them destroying their Nike products, but there are also other people mocking these destroyers.

Twitter post by John Rich

                         

Twitter post by La Bronze James

What I think of this is that this is a truly unnecessary way of people showing that they boycott on Nike and it really bothers me that there are people against this protest for social justice, against someone who is trying to do the right thing for the community.

But there are other responses which are positive that had changed my mind of these negative comments. These people are saying things like, Colin and Nike did the right thing by working together to make this inspiring and motivational advertisement. There are also people who are defending this advertisement against the ones against it, like the ones who are mocking people for destroying their Nike products.

  

Positive comments from Colin Kaepernick "JUST DO IT" Nike Commercial 2018 from Youtube

From what these people are saying about Colin's Nike ad this is exactly what these people who are hating on this protest on social justice that Colin Kaepernick had took a knee for should see as the right picture. I really wish that there are more people or something better like there are always people positive instead of people who take action no reason to take negative actions against one simple message.

I have to say that I respect the people who have a good eye on what this Nike Advertisement was trying to show something good to a community.

I am going to be 100% honest that I think Nike did do this as a main goal to earn profit by hiring Colin because it made sense for them to do it since after Colin Kaepernick performed that action in 2016 and showed his message to gain rights for others, and then Nike had the opportunity or advantage over this to spread this message more and more by creating an advertisement which will make Nike gain a lot of profit from it. But also I am really sure that that even if Nike did this for the money, I still think that they really care about the racial injustice and I believe thats another reason why they had to make this advertisement.