If anyone still believes Glenn Greenwald has respectable opinions, please reference how he keeps trying to paint Kim Kardashians visit to the White House as a serious and good thing.
It is neither. Kim Kardashian is not a person that should be taken seriously, and meeting with her on a topic shows you don’t take that topic seriously.
Plenty of celebrities go on to become advocates for important and serious issues. Ashton Kutcher created a non profit with Demi Moore for sex trafficking victims, George Takei has been an activist for LGBT rights, and Ben Affleck is a volunteer anti-sexual harassment ad. I'm not sure which statement you're talking about but the one I saw from Glen on Twitter was "this is a serious issue", and he's right. No lies detected.
What is Kim’s history on this? She tweeted about this one specific person like one time in between sponsored tweets and cat fights with rhymefest will her husband goes super Sanijin trumptard?
Prison reform is a serious issue. Kim and Kanye are not serious people. There is no serious contemplative side of either person and no real indication that either has any real thoughts about the issue.
Ashton Kutcher started a foundation, he donated money to it, he raised money for it, he put in work on the foundation in terms of figuring out what the foundation would do and studying the issue. Those are Ashton Kutcher’s credentials on the issue DESPITE him being a celebrity.
John Legend also went to the White House to discuss prison reform but no one trashed that, because John Legend started the freeamerica project as part of a 501C 3 non-profit to advocate for prison reform which shows at least a modicum of dedication to the issue, and presumably expertise or at least willingness to engage with experts.
What are Kim’s credentials in this issue? Are there any?as far as I know she tweeted about it a few times and fucked Ray J once, and Kanye started a foundation named after his mom in a Chicago, stopped supporting it, and complained it was mismanaged while doing literally nothing about it except complaining about rhymefest.
That’s why this comparison is a joke, and why Glenn Greenwald shows his ass here. He says it’s an important issue (correct) but also tries to say it is a double standard because Obama had celebrities talk to him about issues (correct) but completely fails to omit that Kim has literally no credentials in this space. I can’t go through the history of every celebrity to visit the White House, but I can say that the few examples that have been brought up show the striking difference of the Obama celebrities having put in some kind of work on the issue.
And anyone that follows Glen Greenwald with a critical eye knows damn well his whole Schlick is just to be contrarian and he doesn’t really have any principles except loving dogs and dick. If a national newspaper wrote that the sky is blue he’d tweet about how they are being disingenuous because it turns black at night.
Edit: also bear in mind that lik is specifically out there advocating for release of a family member and not prison reform, in general. Is this still a serious issue?
Edit2: not actually sure about the family member thing. It’s all over twitter... but not seeing the source.
